Luxembourg, November 26, 2004:
When Skype first launched our SkypeOut service, we didnt realise exactly how long 10 Euro would last. At our launch, we announced a policy that unused credits would expire after 180 days (6 months). Well, we're soon reaching 180 days from our beta launch, and can see that many of you still haven't used all of your original credit.
As a result, we are pleased to tell you that Skype has revised our policy. We won't be clearing any balances until 6 months after you have made your last SkypeOut call. So, if you make just one paid call every 6 months, we'll not touch your account of unused credit.
However, if you don't use SkypeOut (that is, don't make any additional purchases nor place any SkypeOut calls in 6 months), we'll zero your Skype balance, simply to ensure that we aren't using expensive systems to maintain accounts for people who don't need it. Your Skype Name will be unaffected and you will be able to still use free Skype-to-Skype calling, file transfer, and all of the other free services you've come to enjoy.
We believe this policy is both market leading and the right way to keep our costs down, so we can pass savings on to you.
When I first entered middle school we were known as "The Satans". We had a cute little kid devil as our mascot. The wierd thing about being known as "The devils" or "The Satans" was when playing sports the team would huddled up before the game to pray. After saying "Amen" we would all yell "GO SATANS!".
Looking back on it it's hard to believe a conservative town in North Carolina would let there middle school be known as "The Satans". It was changed to the falcons in my final year, though. However, the high school is still known as the Red Devils.
Personally after feeling ripped by this inflated prices for ink cartridges I went out and bought a laser printer. Nowadays you can get a laser printer for as little as 100 Euros. I bought a kyocera with permanent drum. Therefore, the only price I'll ever incur is the price for toner. In the rare case that I need a color print I go to the local copy shop. I've saved tones this way.
Also.... Will this not be as easy to swith off as the epson printer cartridges with the chips that indicate whether they are full or not. Here in Germany at least, you can buy a thingy to reset it to empty so that the printer can reuse it. I'm assuming this chip (or whatever they have in mind) will be read only, though.
It's surely not a waste of time to learn the basics first. I'm saying you first need to learn to string sentences together before doing the "English for my job" thing. Doing otherwise is one of the fastest ways to frustration.
And the reading suggestion is a step towards the goal of learning job/interest related vocab.
And if I'm a former EFL student, I sure did learn well.:)
Another thing you want to do is set goals. Give yourself a date where you want to totally turn off English (and any other languages you know). 2-3 months is usually good. However, in the shops you should speak Spanish from day one. It can be funny.
Another thing,
In some countries, although less in Spanish-speaking countries, you really have to watch out for people wanting to talk English with you once your Spanish gets good enough. When I first started learning German here in Berlin, I sometimes had to be very persistent in speaking German with people. At first you think it's just because your German sucks. But even after 6 years of speaking the language some people still respond in English.
As an English teacher in Berlin of 5 years, I've very often been contracted to teach "Business English" to total beginners. It's useless.
When learning a language first work on the basics. It's a waist of time to focus on a specific area before you can even ask where the toilett is. Once you get to a certain point start reading about things that interest you (e.g. computer books or magazines). That way your reinforcing the basics while learning the terms you need. Technical writing is usually very straight-forward as far as grammar goes.
Go there early if you can to learn. Learning Spanish there is many times faster than learning it at home.
Good Luck
PS: Just because it's spelled the same as in English don't expect to be understood when you pronounce it like in English.;) (at least not in Spain)
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When I first entered middle school we were known as "The Satans". We had a cute little kid devil as our mascot. The wierd thing about being known as "The devils" or "The Satans" was when playing sports the team would huddled up before the game to pray. After saying "Amen" we would all yell "GO SATANS!".
Looking back on it it's hard to believe a conservative town in North Carolina would let there middle school be known as "The Satans". It was changed to the falcons in my final year, though. However, the high school is still known as the Red Devils.
I think it's actually Gnome 2.9.x
Personally after feeling ripped by this inflated prices for ink cartridges I went out and bought a laser printer. Nowadays you can get a laser printer for as little as 100 Euros. I bought a kyocera with permanent drum. Therefore, the only price I'll ever incur is the price for toner. In the rare case that I need a color print I go to the local copy shop. I've saved tones this way.
Also.... Will this not be as easy to swith off as the epson printer cartridges with the chips that indicate whether they are full or not. Here in Germany at least, you can buy a thingy to reset it to empty so that the printer can reuse it. I'm assuming this chip (or whatever they have in mind) will be read only, though.
Am i the only one who thinks this is a response to the recent success that Ubuntu has had?
I've personally been all over the place with my choice of preferred distro. Ubuntu is the nicest desktop linux I've found.
It's surely not a waste of time to learn the basics first. I'm saying you first need to learn to string sentences together before doing the "English for my job" thing. Doing otherwise is one of the fastest ways to frustration.
:)
And the reading suggestion is a step towards the goal of learning job/interest related vocab.
And if I'm a former EFL student, I sure did learn well.
Another thing you want to do is set goals. Give yourself a date where you want to totally turn off English (and any other languages you know). 2-3 months is usually good. However, in the shops you should speak Spanish from day one. It can be funny.
Another thing,
In some countries, although less in Spanish-speaking countries, you really have to watch out for people wanting to talk English with you once your Spanish gets good enough. When I first started learning German here in Berlin, I sometimes had to be very persistent in speaking German with people. At first you think it's just because your German sucks. But even after 6 years of speaking the language some people still respond in English.
As an English teacher in Berlin of 5 years, I've very often been contracted to teach "Business English" to total beginners. It's useless.
;) (at least not in Spain)
When learning a language first work on the basics. It's a waist of time to focus on a specific area before you can even ask where the toilett is. Once you get to a certain point start reading about things that interest you (e.g. computer books or magazines). That way your reinforcing the basics while learning the terms you need. Technical writing is usually very straight-forward as far as grammar goes.
Go there early if you can to learn. Learning Spanish there is many times faster than learning it at home.
Good Luck
PS: Just because it's spelled the same as in English don't expect to be understood when you pronounce it like in English.
As far as graphics cards go it seems as if nvidia, although not open source, still has the lead as is noted in this review
I think it's the job of the windows manager, such as metacity, to implement the new xorg extensions not the graphics toolkit.