> In the words of Captain Darling himself, "Clever. Clever. Clever.".
Well, was very clever of me. I was feeling quite smug really, but unfortunately, I was wrong. The quote would correctly be attributed to Lt. the Honorable George Colhurst St. Barleigh. I know you all knew that, but it had to be corrected, if only for the record.
" Hearing a song and not knowing who sings it or what it's called can be very annoying. Fortunately, Shazam provides a service that lets you hold your phone up to any song playing and it will then text you back the artist and track name in a matter of minutes. "
"How does that work?", I wonder....clever stuff....and, again...
" if you have a question that you need answering, AQA is the mobile service for you. AQA, which stands for any question answered, is a text-based service that literally answers any question you can think of. We asked it 'which was better, a CMOS or CCD sensor?' -- amazingly it came back with a half-decent answer. "
In the words of Captain Darling himself, "Clever. Clever. Clever.".
I hate all this 0==false/otherwise==true crap. It makes for some really unreadable code. Is it really that much more effort to make a boolean var with a meaningful name? I expect a compiler would optimise it out easily...
Well, I know people who have started their own businesses (Chinese people too), so you can call it freedom in that respect.
More relevantly, there are also alternative ISPs to choose from, if you so like - though, like in a lot of places, they will often just be reselling service from a bigger ISP (not necessarily a bad thing) - eg Bluewave have a big pipe from CNC and they sell connections to that (dynamic, private IP addresses).
Also, IMO, in a lot of situations, government regulation is necessary and a good thing. The availability of certain company's services seems to be dependent on where you live; for example, a whole building will have a contract for an ISP, and having a different ISP is not possible (where that involves alterations to the building - DSL/etc of course, is always possible). I don't know if there are any peers to CNC in the market or not...
Not much different to the US, IMO, but better value (though one should really factor in cost of living and income somewhere). $20/m for a slow connection seems like a lot to me, but I don't remember thinking that way when I lived in the US....
I really don't know...I expect you could find out though. I know from my own salary that the deductions are less than in the US - though not a lot less. Re starting their own business, perhaps you could explain why that is relevant.
> I also have to wonder if the fact that many Americans are able to do a considerable amount of web browsing from work has decreased the need for broadband at home.
I don't think many people *need* broadband at all, even in the nations higher up the list. It's more for entertainment and communication, and bearing that in mind, perhaps there is a cultural difference in this. For example, SMS is popular in a lot of nations, but (in my experience of the SF bay area) not in the US. I think this probably started because it's cheaper than calling, but the cost of a call relative to people's income is a lot higher in (some) other countries. I wonder if there's something similar at play with broadband.
In China, the ISP 'market' is also highly regulated (pretty much only one is allowed - CNC), and, wow, we get ~8Mbps 10baset connections for ~12USD/month. Regulation doesn't necessarily mean low quality and/or high price.
I also live here, and lived in the SF Bay Area before I came here.
Internet connectivity is better than the US from the point of view of bandwidth and cost. A couple of years ago, I had a 10baseT connection over which I regularly got speeds around 8Mbps and it only costs 99rmb per month (that's something like 12USD). It's nice when your work shares the same ISP too, since working from home is much easier.
Quality can be an issue, esp. if accessing foriegn sites (which few people do), and adoption outside of major cities is sure to be patchy but perhaps that's not how the author's were judging it. On the other hand, I heard the government mandate laying fibre under all new roads, so that's sure to change rapidly.
If you're going to use a qualitive judgement for some European countries, then you should also use it for China. From my experience, in some respects, the US is definitely 'behind' China.
I'm a uk ex-pat, and would like to try out UKNova, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to register - and all the support requires you register and log in.
When I go to the 'sign-up' page (http://www.uknova.com/signup.php) it only shows me a page with the UKNova banner, 'Search Torrents', the menu common to all the pages (AFAICT), then 'UKNova' and a table with a single empty row.
I am accessing it from China. Is it different anywhere else?
Seriously though, the humour, and hence the 'funny' mod, is in it's amazing cynicism. Whether or not the author actually was serious (I suspect not), is somewhat beside the point (in my opinion, at least).
> (at least to the Brits, Welsh, Scottish, and Northern Irish)
You do realise that the Welsh, Scots and (arguably) Northern Irish are 'British'. The English are also British, of course, and, as you left 'English' out of the above, it seems you think 'Brits' == 'English'. Not so.
re symbian...they *do* have something that sounds somewhat similar to what Mr Steve talks about.
To produce an app for a symbian phone, your app needs to pass symbian signed testing, which can be a right pain in the royal artillery, I can tell you.
However, it seems that his stand is not totally unprecedented.
iPhone and Cisco's new product is one thing, but 'ITV' has been around for decades and is well known to stand for 'Independent TeleVision', so I don't suppose they could use that....even if they change the case of the first letter.
The bit of the phone that uses the sim card is useless, but the phone isn't - well, may not be. This thing has Wifi, so you could phone using VoIP, for example. Of course, web surfing and most other features have no need for a sim card if they can use wifi...
I was holding out for the Nokia N95 (I've been using a prototype for a little while now and it's very nice indeed), but now I'm going to have to reconsider...
This reminds me of when, a few decades ago or so, one couldn't get health insurance if you (admitted) had been tested for HID or AIDS. They figured that, if you've been tested, then there must be cause for having it - ie you have a high risk lifestyle.
Never mind that your blood is tested when you volunteer to give blood....
Like saying something is as long as a piece of string....though, not quite, since the string's length has no upper limit, while, presumably, light can only be 'c' or lower. They both have a lower limit of '0' though, I guess...unless you get into theoretical physics, which, I suppose, this all is anyway...
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> In the words of Captain Darling himself, "Clever. Clever. Clever.".
Well, was very clever of me. I was feeling quite smug really, but unfortunately, I was wrong. The quote would correctly be attributed to Lt. the Honorable George Colhurst St. Barleigh. I know you all knew that, but it had to be corrected, if only for the record.
I'm so embarressed.
"
...and, again...
Hearing a song and not knowing who sings it or what it's called can be very annoying. Fortunately, Shazam provides a service that lets you hold your phone up to any song playing and it will then text you back the artist and track name in a matter of minutes.
"
"How does that work?", I wonder....clever stuff.
"
if you have a question that you need answering, AQA is the mobile service for you. AQA, which stands for any question answered, is a text-based service that literally answers any question you can think of. We asked it 'which was better, a CMOS or CCD sensor?' -- amazingly it came back with a half-decent answer.
"
In the words of Captain Darling himself, "Clever. Clever. Clever.".
I wonder if it's scalable.
I first read that as 'crotch'.
That wouldn't be a good thing, even if it was a beer.
I'd never heard of "Band-Aid" before I went to the US - apart from in association with the good works of Sir Bob et al, of course.
We use the term "plaster". Seems simple enough.
I think you'll find it evaluates to 'true'.
I hate all this 0==false/otherwise==true crap. It makes for some really unreadable code. Is it really that much more effort to make a boolean var with a meaningful name? I expect a compiler would optimise it out easily...
I'd vote for DC.
Well, I know people who have started their own businesses (Chinese people too), so you can call it freedom in that respect.
More relevantly, there are also alternative ISPs to choose from, if you so like - though, like in a lot of places, they will often just be reselling service from a bigger ISP (not necessarily a bad thing) - eg Bluewave have a big pipe from CNC and they sell connections to that (dynamic, private IP addresses).
Also, IMO, in a lot of situations, government regulation is necessary and a good thing. The availability of certain company's services seems to be dependent on where you live; for example, a whole building will have a contract for an ISP, and having a different ISP is not possible (where that involves alterations to the building - DSL/etc of course, is always possible). I don't know if there are any peers to CNC in the market or not...
Not much different to the US, IMO, but better value (though one should really factor in cost of living and income somewhere). $20/m for a slow connection seems like a lot to me, but I don't remember thinking that way when I lived in the US....
I really don't know...I expect you could find out though. I know from my own salary that the deductions are less than in the US - though not a lot less. Re starting their own business, perhaps you could explain why that is relevant.
> I also have to wonder if the fact that many Americans are able to do a considerable amount of web browsing from work has decreased the need for broadband at home.
I don't think many people *need* broadband at all, even in the nations higher up the list. It's more for entertainment and communication, and bearing that in mind, perhaps there is a cultural difference in this. For example, SMS is popular in a lot of nations, but (in my experience of the SF bay area) not in the US. I think this probably started because it's cheaper than calling, but the cost of a call relative to people's income is a lot higher in (some) other countries. I wonder if there's something similar at play with broadband.
I have an 8Mbps up and down service with public (but dynamic) IP address, for just about 12USD. CNC.
In China, the ISP 'market' is also highly regulated (pretty much only one is allowed - CNC), and, wow, we get ~8Mbps 10baset connections for ~12USD/month. Regulation doesn't necessarily mean low quality and/or high price.
I also live here, and lived in the SF Bay Area before I came here.
Internet connectivity is better than the US from the point of view of bandwidth and cost. A couple of years ago, I had a 10baseT connection over which I regularly got speeds around 8Mbps and it only costs 99rmb per month (that's something like 12USD). It's nice when your work shares the same ISP too, since working from home is much easier.
Quality can be an issue, esp. if accessing foriegn sites (which few people do), and adoption outside of major cities is sure to be patchy but perhaps that's not how the author's were judging it. On the other hand, I heard the government mandate laying fibre under all new roads, so that's sure to change rapidly.
If you're going to use a qualitive judgement for some European countries, then you should also use it for China. From my experience, in some respects, the US is definitely 'behind' China.
I'm a uk ex-pat, and would like to try out UKNova, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to register - and all the support requires you register and log in.
When I go to the 'sign-up' page (http://www.uknova.com/signup.php) it only shows me a page with the UKNova banner, 'Search Torrents', the menu common to all the pages (AFAICT), then 'UKNova' and a table with a single empty row.
I am accessing it from China. Is it different anywhere else?
Max.
Many a true word is said in jest.
Seriously though, the humour, and hence the 'funny' mod, is in it's amazing cynicism. Whether or not the author actually was serious (I suspect not), is somewhat beside the point (in my opinion, at least).
Marvin, is that you?
> (at least to the Brits, Welsh, Scottish, and Northern Irish)
You do realise that the Welsh, Scots and (arguably) Northern Irish are 'British'. The English are also British, of course, and, as you left 'English' out of the above, it seems you think 'Brits' == 'English'. Not so.
IINM, the N70 is an old Symbian 8 phone. The restrictions are brought in with Symbian 9 - S60 3rd edition on Nokia.
re symbian...they *do* have something that sounds somewhat similar to what Mr Steve talks about.
To produce an app for a symbian phone, your app needs to pass symbian signed testing, which can be a right pain in the royal artillery, I can tell you.
However, it seems that his stand is not totally unprecedented.
iPhone and Cisco's new product is one thing, but 'ITV' has been around for decades and is well known to stand for 'Independent TeleVision', so I don't suppose they could use that....even if they change the case of the first letter.
Indeed. I missed that.
> ...I'm sure more than a few users
right
like all those who aren't serviced by Cingular, for example. like most people in the rest of the world.
> ... digital camera ($200);
??? Did I miss that?
Max.
> ..and your phone is useless without
The bit of the phone that uses the sim card is useless, but the phone isn't - well, may not be. This thing has Wifi, so you could phone using VoIP, for example. Of course, web surfing and most other features have no need for a sim card if they can use wifi...
I was holding out for the Nokia N95 (I've been using a prototype for a little while now and it's very nice indeed), but now I'm going to have to reconsider...
No camera though? Hrm.
Max.
This reminds me of when, a few decades ago or so, one couldn't get health insurance if you (admitted) had been tested for HID or AIDS. They figured that, if you've been tested, then there must be cause for having it - ie you have a high risk lifestyle.
Never mind that your blood is tested when you volunteer to give blood....
So, not an error, just stupidly ambiguous.
...though, not quite, since the string's length has no upper limit, while, presumably, light can only be 'c' or lower. They both have a lower limit of '0' though, I guess...unless you get into theoretical physics, which, I suppose, this all is anyway...
Like saying something is as long as a piece of string.