did you miss the part saying that the calls were the same price from a standard phone? you can't have bt broadband without a bt landline (paying full standing charge every quarter).
Why would I want to feck about with IP? It doesn't offer me any useful additional features. It would use the broadband bandwidth I already pay for, my wireless bandwidth, disk space, cpu, cause my machine to start up slower, having to feck about unpluggin my headphones/speakers to put in a headset... or i can spend £30 on a phone i can walk about the house with.
make the calls 1/5th of the normal cost, im interested. otherwise basically I'm *paying* for a technological solution to a non existant problem.
After the free period, the pricing is the same as your standard BT landline costs.
To have BT Broadband you must have a BT Landline
I have a walkabout phone for round the house so i can be in any room, in the garden, garage etc. But my PC is tied to the wall. Even if you had a laptop do you really want to lug that around?
So I pay the same for a net call and get less 'features' than my landline. Sounds like a bargain!
i got it dirt cheap as i used to work at MS. I met KB at what i think was the first MSJ conference in the UK (cambridge? there was a company doing demos of VR headsets there).
Pretzel, sorry Petzold was there too and it was only then that i realised that those pics of a windows tatoo on him arm were true
is that a euphamism for 'the most boring book to hit the world since Inside OLE2?'
I never got more than a quarter of the way through that, i fell asleep every time i tried to pick it up.
i saw internal MS OLE training i saw Kraig Brockshmit did back in about 95 - jesus it was boring. we are talking boredom in an entirely new area of bordem till then undiscovered by man
how do you improve the speed of one of these things? get the transistors to switch faster? make shorter pipelines for popular instructions?
all that is a lot of work, do you think thats why intel didn't persue it? because now they can just tweak a basic design every 4 months or so for an extra.2 ghz and charge the earth for it - for relatively little investment compared to the inital design cost of the original processor.
>>>Correction: the ice replaces exactly the amount of water it occupies when floating (=law of Archimedes). Proof: take a glass of water, put in ice cube, fill up glass to the edge (but not overflowing!). Ice melts, and water is still exactly up to the edge.
actually wrong. if you do it that way the ice will melt to form less volume of water than ice (i.e. under the edge). This is because ice is less dense than water. This is why icebergs and icecubes float.
the fact that water expands when it freezes is why your water pipes can burst in winter.
so sticking batteries in series to 250v is not going to be a good move.
stick em in parrallel and hook up a 240V inverter.
32ah is a bit on the weedy side, around 110ah is standard and easy to find. over in the uk they tend to be called leisure batteries. dont use normal car batteries they are not designed to be run down - you will damage them
never thought about checking out chinatown then (about 1/4 north of there)? or any of the fabulous indian restaurants? next time get the tube or cab east to brick lane, fantasic selection of indian cuisine.
stay out of chains or anything in very touristy area, they suck.
Will we see what the company is really made of now. If it follows standard public company practice it will layoff staff and cut back on things that aren't immeditaly earning revenue.
(becauase apparantly they asked 1000 shareholders what the solution to reduced profits was and they all said layoffs. or maybe that didn't happen)
who knows what will happen when (if) that happens?
I used to work in MS Developer support. They used to take care of the developers and work hand in hand with them. Really it was only after the invention of VC++ where it was kind of put that writing windows apps in C++ was easy and we got a whole bunch of nobend VB programmers constantly ringing up for support (classic question: 'is there a function for getting the current directory? Yes, its called GetCurrentDirectory') that the developer support started to get restricted too.
'WordPerfect had already beaten Microsoft in the Word Processing market. But Microsoft side-tracked Wordperfect when they promised the world that OS/2 was the new direction, then undermined WordPerfect on Windows by providing intentionally-broken API calls.'
Oh so nothing to do with the fact that WP for Windows sucked ass then? (as is the same with 123 for Windows).
simple reason why Windows won over OS/2 in those days (and perhaps one of the reasons why microsoft split):
#1 OS/2 needed 8meg and that was flipping expensive back in those days #2 Windows had a user friendly installer
OS/2 was the best OS technically at the time between the two. But Gates knew his market. Again like at Win95, it had to run as fast on what was it? a DX2/33 with 4mb as WFWG 3.11 did. Ok a master stroke of marketetting. but it did somewhat screw things up because of the shortcuts taken at that point
you talking hansard online? its censored. try looking for the discussions by that twat david amess over the drug 'cake' (for non ukers and young people, do a seach for 'brass eye cake david amess')
no the difference is that i don't participate in anything where i can be publicly identified (easily, there are enough mitnicks out there to make this moot). This is the equivalent of a chat in the pub with a stranger. If this required some kind of 'real' verification i wouldnt be here.
if i turn up wandering through a sea of photographers into a hall full of tv cameras, well, im not going to bloody be there.
also nobody can count on my unconditional support because i don't fit into our 3 party system over here let along a 2 party system! turning up to political conferences is like having a season ticket to loosing teams. even though they are mostly crap they somehow deserve unconditional support.
if i chose to go to a public event that will be on national telly and they'll show lots of nice close ups of the happy partcipants, i'd be expecting a severe loss of privacy.
People are targetted every day for the companies they choose to invest in because investor records are public (well over here anyway). Why should political affiliation be any different?
i mean if they published names is that really wrong? its a public event, its on telly so by default you could be recognised in the audience, by going you agree your privacy is compromised in some way, your details will probably go onto some list of people to call back.
if you stood outside the entrance, took photos of the people going in and published them, would that be the same thing? if its a public place whats the problem?
has there been intimidation? or is this just fear because its the republicans in power?
there are plenty if privacy concerns just by being a voter, your details are available to be seen locally (speaking as a UK citizen myself). and if you don't tick the right box then hell its available to anybody who wants it, anywhere, possibly for cross referencing with the phone book so burglars can find your phone number if if looks like you are out. well having a pretty rare name and being involved in something where a lot of people know i've got a load of expensive gear - i don't register to vote. I know people who have been repeatedly hit and vanloads of equipment nicked.
as another point, really is there any need to go? its on the telly. like all political conferances its just preaching to the converted and you are just there to applaud on cue to make the pictures look good.
and one i had a couple of years ago as i was involved in a filmmaking crowd. some people are trying to make professional amature shows with a view to using them as experience and a stepping stone into the industry
My friend is an actor in the internet soap Chalkhill Lives which is run as a kind of consortium, all the actors and crew pay into it which pays for the hire of a house tapes, consumables, hosting etc. And everybody takes a turn directing, filming and writing.
A spokesman for the park ranger service said "We have decided in order to create the best possible experience for our bears, we will not include sites whose bathrooms are not accessible and as such our bears will have to continue to defecate in the woods"
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from an old late book aimed at kids about robots, computers and the like, went something like -
"A programmer is somebody who converts problems from the real word into a language the computer can understand"
I just love it! not 'creats solutions' but 'converts problems' LOL!
(wish i could look it up but everything is packed away at the mo)
did you miss the part saying that the calls were the same price from a standard phone? you can't have bt broadband without a bt landline (paying full standing charge every quarter).
Why would I want to feck about with IP? It doesn't offer me any useful additional features. It would use the broadband bandwidth I already pay for, my wireless bandwidth, disk space, cpu, cause my machine to start up slower, having to feck about unpluggin my headphones/speakers to put in a headset... or i can spend £30 on a phone i can walk about the house with.
make the calls 1/5th of the normal cost, im interested. otherwise basically I'm *paying* for a technological solution to a non existant problem.
After the free period, the pricing is the same as your standard BT landline costs.
To have BT Broadband you must have a BT Landline
I have a walkabout phone for round the house so i can be in any room, in the garden, garage etc. But my PC is tied to the wall. Even if you had a laptop do you really want to lug that around?
So I pay the same for a net call and get less 'features' than my landline. Sounds like a bargain!
im sorry you lot have to chill your beer to very cold to take the taste of chemicals and/or general awfulness away.
give me pint of theakstons old peculiar instead of chilled buttweiser anyday
i got it dirt cheap as i used to work at MS. I met KB at what i think was the first MSJ conference in the UK (cambridge? there was a company doing demos of VR headsets there).
Pretzel, sorry Petzold was there too and it was only then that i realised that those pics of a windows tatoo on him arm were true
is that a euphamism for 'the most boring book to hit the world since Inside OLE2?'
I never got more than a quarter of the way through that, i fell asleep every time i tried to pick it up.
i saw internal MS OLE training i saw Kraig Brockshmit did back in about 95 - jesus it was boring. we are talking boredom in an entirely new area of bordem till then undiscovered by man
how do you improve the speed of one of these things? get the transistors to switch faster? make shorter pipelines for popular instructions?
.2 ghz and charge the earth for it - for relatively little investment compared to the inital design cost of the original processor.
all that is a lot of work, do you think thats why intel didn't persue it? because now they can just tweak a basic design every 4 months or so for an extra
>>>Correction: the ice replaces exactly the amount of water it occupies when floating (=law of Archimedes). Proof: take a glass of water, put in ice cube, fill up glass to the edge (but not overflowing!). Ice melts, and water is still exactly up to the edge. actually wrong. if you do it that way the ice will melt to form less volume of water than ice (i.e. under the edge). This is because ice is less dense than water. This is why icebergs and icecubes float. the fact that water expands when it freezes is why your water pipes can burst in winter.
so sticking batteries in series to 250v is not going to be a good move.
stick em in parrallel and hook up a 240V inverter.
32ah is a bit on the weedy side, around 110ah is standard and easy to find. over in the uk they tend to be called leisure batteries. dont use normal car batteries they are not designed to be run down - you will damage them
never thought about checking out chinatown then (about 1/4 north of there)? or any of the fabulous indian restaurants? next time get the tube or cab east to brick lane, fantasic selection of indian cuisine.
stay out of chains or anything in very touristy area, they suck.
for women walking funny, they're going to be american. or the word 'fanny' means something completely different in the UK :)
head to the nearest McDonalds. I'm not kidding.
Will we see what the company is really made of now. If it follows standard public company practice it will layoff staff and cut back on things that aren't immeditaly earning revenue.
(becauase apparantly they asked 1000 shareholders what the solution to reduced profits was and they all said layoffs. or maybe that didn't happen)
who knows what will happen when (if) that happens?
I used to work in MS Developer support. They used to take care of the developers and work hand in hand with them. Really it was only after the invention of VC++ where it was kind of put that writing windows apps in C++ was easy and we got a whole bunch of nobend VB programmers constantly ringing up for support (classic question: 'is there a function for getting the current directory? Yes, its called GetCurrentDirectory') that the developer support started to get restricted too.
'WordPerfect had already beaten Microsoft in the Word Processing market. But Microsoft side-tracked Wordperfect when they promised the world that OS/2 was the new direction, then undermined WordPerfect on Windows by providing intentionally-broken API calls.'
:
Oh so nothing to do with the fact that WP for Windows sucked ass then? (as is the same with 123 for Windows).
simple reason why Windows won over OS/2 in those days (and perhaps one of the reasons why microsoft split)
#1 OS/2 needed 8meg and that was flipping expensive back in those days
#2 Windows had a user friendly installer
OS/2 was the best OS technically at the time between the two. But Gates knew his market. Again like at Win95, it had to run as fast on what was it? a DX2/33 with 4mb as WFWG 3.11 did. Ok a master stroke of marketetting. but it did somewhat screw things up because of the shortcuts taken at that point
you talking hansard online? its censored. try looking for the discussions by that twat david amess over the drug 'cake' (for non ukers and young people, do a seach for 'brass eye cake david amess')
no the difference is that i don't participate in anything where i can be publicly identified (easily, there are enough mitnicks out there to make this moot). This is the equivalent of a chat in the pub with a stranger. If this required some kind of 'real' verification i wouldnt be here.
if i turn up wandering through a sea of photographers into a hall full of tv cameras, well, im not going to bloody be there.
also nobody can count on my unconditional support because i don't fit into our 3 party system over here let along a 2 party system! turning up to political conferences is like having a season ticket to loosing teams. even though they are mostly crap they somehow deserve unconditional support.
if i chose to go to a public event that will be on national telly and they'll show lots of nice close ups of the happy partcipants, i'd be expecting a severe loss of privacy. People are targetted every day for the companies they choose to invest in because investor records are public (well over here anyway). Why should political affiliation be any different?
well yeah!
one thing i can't understand is why not registering is illegal, yet not voting is not (like a lot of european countries).
obviously the way this is organised the govt values personal information over you opinion of how they are doing........
to even get onto gerrymandering which is totally immoral but not illegal.
i mean if they published names is that really wrong? its a public event, its on telly so by default you could be recognised in the audience, by going you agree your privacy is compromised in some way, your details will probably go onto some list of people to call back.
if you stood outside the entrance, took photos of the people going in and published them, would that be the same thing? if its a public place whats the problem?
has there been intimidation? or is this just fear because its the republicans in power?
there are plenty if privacy concerns just by being a voter, your details are available to be seen locally (speaking as a UK citizen myself). and if you don't tick the right box then hell its available to anybody who wants it, anywhere, possibly for cross referencing with the phone book so burglars can find your phone number if if looks like you are out. well having a pretty rare name and being involved in something where a lot of people know i've got a load of expensive gear - i don't register to vote. I know people who have been repeatedly hit and vanloads of equipment nicked.
as another point, really is there any need to go? its on the telly. like all political conferances its just preaching to the converted and you are just there to applaud on cue to make the pictures look good.
and one i had a couple of years ago as i was involved in a filmmaking crowd. some people are trying to make professional amature shows with a view to using them as experience and a stepping stone into the industry
My friend is an actor in the internet soap Chalkhill Lives which is run as a kind of consortium, all the actors and crew pay into it which pays for the hire of a house tapes, consumables, hosting etc. And everybody takes a turn directing, filming and writing.
you'll need quicktime to view the epsiodes.
A spokesman for the park ranger service said "We have decided in order to create the best possible experience for our bears, we will not include sites whose bathrooms are not accessible and as such our bears will have to continue to defecate in the woods"
well nothing really happened. no extended amounts of dialog, it just cut between plotlines seemingly every 30 seconds.
Company chooses to make money over being banned shock!