The Speedometer problem really isnt 120 100 80 60 50 are the common ones in km which are close enough to 75 60 50 40 and 30 mph. It doesnt take much to get used to it. My Car is primarily in mph and I still think in mph and I often will use the Speedometer as a conversion tool so if a road sign says 100 km i'll call it 60 miles.
half a kg is about a pound 8 foot is 240 cm 15mm about half an inch 25gram about an ounce close enough not to worry about it. A euro is a bit less than sterling which perhaps makes me a little frugal when it comes to shopping, if a price seems fair it probably is a bargain.
SUNNYVALE, CAâ"Finally overcoming competition from the likes of Google, Microsoft, and AOL, internet corporation Yahoo firmly re-secured its place as an industry leader after Sundayâ(TM)s purchase of millions of blogs written by 13-year-old girls. âoeWhile Yahoo has seen its share of struggles over the years, the companyâ(TM)s acquisition of over 100 million blogs written by middle-school females before bedtime has already majorly revitalized the companyâ(TM)s brand,â said BCG consultant Timothy Shore, praising the $1.1 billion purchase of web pages filled with complaints about parents, speculation about cute boys in school, and photos of Robert Pattinson. âoeYahoo is looking to the future here, and tying the entire life of their company to a bunch of pubescent girl bloggers was the smart move.â Yahoo has projected that 13-year-old Melissa Wheelerâ(TM)s blog, mellisasworld.tumlbr.com, would eventually pull in over $2.3 billion for the company
Thats not what I said thou is it. If you want to live in third world conditions expecting a number of your children to die from poverty and disease and hoping enough will survive to maybe take care of you in your old age then maybe you could give that a go maybe even put your children to work from an early age with little in the way of education or opportunity to not have to make those same choices. Actually choices is the wrong word as it isn't a choice but what circumstances dictate.
Thing is though in the western world letting your children starve to death is not an acceptable option. Not saying it is an acceptable option in the third world though most of us seem content to ignore the reality of it. Even the phrase third world is there to separate our fortunate circumstances from those outside of our national borders.
So maybe I should rephrase my original point, that one major reason for a falling western birthrate is the financial pressure to maintain a standard of living. We don't as a rule get to see our children die, we just don't let them be born in the first place.
Having kids is one of the biggest expenses you can have, there is only so much you can do to reduce the out going expenses of getting by.
You can cut your energy bills using more efficient devices you can choose a smaller car and pay less on fuel and insurance and road tax, you can give up drinking and smoking and maybe grow some of your own food. You can't do much to reduce the cost of housing or the taxes you pay. As a couple with shared housing energy and food costs you can get by and make the mortgage payments but bring a child into the mix and just see how much harder it is to meet the bills.
Falling birth rate of course it is falling, people can't afford to have children, they don't have the income to support having children!
The Drunker you are the more likely you are not to be taking any girl home. Trust me being hammered doesn't impress women. She is even less impressed when you lose your license and even your job when you get done for dui. You may even feel a certain amount of regret when you get refused insurance or quoted extortionate rates due to the dui.
Wouldn't recommend getting the bus for taking a girl home, but a taxi is perfectly fine shows good judgement and a willingness to spend money on more than just booze. You might get the bus in if it is reasonable to do so (you don't have to say how you got into town).
Maybe you might want to think why she is single and available and willing to get in a car with a drunk, might save you from some difficult times ahead.
Could you do me a favour and go to gardenersworld.com/forum/ and see if you can write a post to the forum and upload an image you will need to request the desktop site or you will not get the toolbar with the image upload icon. It might just be me but i cannot get a file to upload from android
It's not an Android thing it's a DRM thing, and not being able to use your hardware properly due to content providers concerns about content that hasn't even been on the device in question.
Take a photo with your device, want to upload it to somewhere other than a pre determined set of sites well tough you can't (try posting a photo or attachment to a forum from a mobile OS.
I wouldn't mind if the app stores were trustworthy but they repeatedly shown to be not. I'm looking particularly at googles play store where the trusted repository can not be trusted. I can only hope there will be a fully functional linux on a tablet this year.
I'm just a little annoyed with some of the 'features' of mobile platform
Yes an adapter "Works" but on android you get a lousy 640x400 ish display as the DRM doesn't like it. Regular HDMI the display is nice and sharp and hires but via an adapter it is terrible.
I could understand* if it was video playback that it has issues with but everything even the home screen is reduced in quality.
*Still would be quite stupid on video's too as you can just copy them anyway.
I'm reminded of something G W Bush senior said "I don't like broccoli, I've never liked broccoli and now that i'm president I still don't want to eat it", or some along those lines.
The point being he felt he should be able to choose what he ate, and why not. The recent horse meat scandal was not so much about eating horse meat as unknowingly eating horse meat. There is nothing wrong with horse meat in of itself in fact it can be better quality meat than the cow it replaced.
Since becoming an adult you have had the right to choose what to eat, even as a child you could refuse to eat some things. Do you look at the ingredient list on foods that you buy, I do and so do many other people, some times it is for allergies, sometimes for quality. Sometimes for ingredients you would rather not consume.
Do you like to drink carva when the label says champagne can you not distinguish between a golden delicious and a granny smith or a bramley apple?
Do you prefer to buy fish or do you want to choose cod or haddock from china or the north sea?
Can't you see it is all about choice. I really don't care if you live off GM food, myself i'd rather pay a little more and buy a quality product with the flavour and texture that it always has had. The genuine article no less. Unlike george i do like brocolli, but like george i want to choose what i eat.
âoeThe reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.â
In reality meanwhile, buying boots has become a regular thing since most boots won't last more than 3 months without falling apart especially when wet. It got especially annoying walking in the rain with with wet feet and boots frothing at every step and a label which said waterproof. That for me was the last straw I drove a 100 mile round trip and bought a 2nd hand pair of para boots, they need re - heeling and the total cost is more than I would pay for a regular pair of new boots however these boots will last for years. Some of the best boots available are around â200 a pair and are sold to military personal yes expensive boots compared to the garbage being sold in general today but repaid many times with the quality of the materials and construction. Proper resoling of boots can cost â80 and in Ireland there are few qualified to do the job but its worth every penny. Thing is I remember a time when buying good quality boots was easy and you would get years out of them. Trainers used to last too, normally the reason for getting rid wasn't because they were falling apart but they stunk from years of sweat.
Not sure if that is true, this winter has been a long one the delay of seasonal weather due to the jet stream having been low longer than usual has caused a few problems. It finally moved northwards about 2 weeks ago.
For cattle and sheep apart from the many sheep dead in the UK frozen to death right in the lambing season there has been problems with grazing, the grass has been fairly dormant leaving farmers in a dire situation without feed or money to buy feed for their herds. In Ireland there has been a help line set up to help farmers who cannot feed their animals. For crops the persisting frosts have put many crops and plants around a month behind. The last couple of years the summer temperature and rainfall has lowered yields too.
It's pretty essential that the jet stream rise northwards for europe to experience its 'normal' climate. Without the warm air keeping back the cold air, you don't get the germination temperatures needed.
Natural selection should favour plants most suited to the climate that they grow in, as they will be the plants that grow to maturity and set seed which can be planted the following year. Wouldn't Monsanto seed policy of not allowing seed collection work against natural selection, so the seed available will be the seed Monsanto has decided has optimal characteristics and if they are wrong well that could be a major problem.
Fairly recently Colmans mustard crops were found to have falling yields and it turned out that they needed diverse seeds to get high yields luckily they do keep seed from past years and were able to reverse the trend but without that they were in big trouble.
I don't think Monsanto has it's GM Seed banned in Europe it just isn't welcomed by Europeans and if a product has GM on it, it is labeled as such and it doesn't sell. Fortunately for Monsanto the FDA refuses to label GM food in the USA, if that changed Monsanto likely would be in trouble as consumers boycotted their products. why wouldn't it be the same as in Europe?
I don't see how it isn't part of the same issue, why else the phoney (sorry) regulator if not to pretend to address the issue of customers who (quite rightly I would say) thought they were getting ripped off.
I seriously doubt anybody would expect to get anywhere with an industry watchdog if it was just a case of the customer not paying for service received. If the bills were legitimate the real regulator would rule in favour of the company and a real court would rule in favour of the phone company allowing real debt collectors to be used.
At least we agree that the company was very dodgy and has now been shut down .
What isn't wrong, is that they sent letters of demand to late paying customers. They had every right to do this, even to use a debt collection agency (after a reasonable time) to recoup the loss. This is fine.
Not so sure about that being fine, as this below was also in the article.
Additionally, the company told customers mobile service was available at their premises when it wasnâ(TM)t, including in indigenous communities.
The Federal Court upheld the ACCC's claim that Excite Mobile's âoeday capâ clause was unconscionable. The clause meant any customer making more than one two minute call per day would get charged excess fees over the monthly contract charge, which it did not disclose.
Excite Mobile also included a $75 cool off fee on its contracts as well as a $195 charge for returning a damaged phone.
So you have a contract where you have no coverage or if you do have coverage making more than a 2 minute phone call will generate excess fee's and even if you want to cancel they charge you for that too.
These late payments are not the usual problem of customer not having the money but customers receiving outrageous bills over and above their contracts or not getting the service they were promised.
Mobile phone companies have for years gotten away with charging customers for free phone numbers and not including non geographic phone numbers as part of your bundled minutes. Many big companies use non geographic numbers for their customer support and billing call centres, and usually you are held in a queue paying for it.
However this is a new low even for a mobile phone company, excess charges for day time calls in excess of 2 minutes, would you pay it?
Got to admit even without a contract phone companies still find ways to stitch up their customers.
Three mobile for instance give customers free unlimited data for 30 days and even an extra 10 euro phone credit when a top up of 20 euro is made (topping up twice with 10 euro doesn't count even if the machine will not issue a 20 euro top up).
However day 31 is interesting. last month i had around 25 euro of credit. At 5:30 am i had used about 6 euro of credit on data by 5:34 am a further 12 euro and by 6:30 am my balance had gone.
The key thing to do is to buy a 30 day 500mb add on for 4.99 twice. the 2nd one will get queued. The first one will just expire with no usage and then the 2nd will kick in and probably last for 30 days. As a light user of calls and texts that would leave 5 euro for calls in month1 (typical non free usage) and in the 2nd month I would have 5 euro left but since i wouldn't have free weekend calls and free weekend texts, i'd be out of credit in a week or a fortnight anyway.
Should I be annoyed? well not really I get internet access for 20 euro a month and that is still cheap compared with the other options as landlines have line rental + internet access in the city. The only fast option here is wimaxx which is around 35 euro a month so i'm happy enough with what I have (i'd still have to pay for my mobile as well).
I'm better off than Excites' customers that were suckered into a contract which seemed on paper to be better value than the competition, but with excess usage charges after 2 minutes a day, are in practice more expensive and they have a 2 year lock on the customer . At least with my provider i am free to change at any time (my sim remains in service even with no credit for receiving calls). So far I haven't found a better deal and I will not go back to contract phones.
Funny thing is Google do respond by email when it is needed. I reported a problem with the navigation product and an illegal right turn it directed me to do. After a while i got an email saying i was right and it was fixed.
I think Google provides some of the best customer service in the world, after all i can ask them anything and they usually give me pages and pages of answers, heck they answer questions on subjects totally unrelated to google.
You can't fix stupid though no matter how many emails you send.
I don't think you can take 4g in isolation since there are alternatives such as 3g and broadband, wimax, satellite.
How much internet access do you need when you are out and about?
Most of the time when I am not at home, I am driving and not using the net or somewhere where there is wifi. I guess people riding the bus can use 4g but are they the people that can afford 4g?
Nobody needs 4g at any price, but if the cost is reasonable then people will use it. Reasonable has to compete with free data on 3g, most cell phone plans include some.
Linux is not a product, Big screen Tv's, chromebooks , phones these are products People want to buy stuff for specific things. Linux might be a part of that thing but so are capacitors and resistors and people don't care about them either.
Googles been a bit more unusual in that they have pretty much branded an experience. So you buy an android phone or tablet or a chromebook. So if its an android phone expect it to do the same stuff in general as any other android phone or tablet. Chromebook all the things you can do in your browser minus all the windows stuff that gets in your way.
Nothing worse than starting a computer to do something and the first thing it wants to do is scan for virus and malware, slowing it down to a crawl and getting in the way of what you want to do. Probably a good reason office PC's tended to be left on, so they were ready to work when their operator is.
Linux may be doing the behind the scenes work, but although your samsung tv might run linux it doesnt run android (unless it says it does) so you can't expect to install android apps on your tv.
I guess i am writing on a gnomebook or maybe just Mint or Ubuntu, or Debian. Or Unity. It's all Linux really but most of these terms other than gnomebook tell you what to expect and roughly what can be run. I find non technical people who use ubuntu will use the word ubuntu rather than Linux and i think that is fair enough ubuntu is a product a type of Linux. Android, Ubuntu types of Linux with different expectations, different user experiences.
The only gripe really is with hardware manufacturers who are blinded by windows, and target just Windows. If a printer is windows only then i'm probably not going to be able to print from my linux running tv. On the other hand there is quite a good chance if it does.
I'd kind of hope that most current printers should support printing from ios mac linux and android at the very least.
Actually Androids cloud print supports a small server service bundled with chrome so I can share my printer attached to my nas with my mint running netbook and this connects to googles cloud print. so yes i can print from my phone to the cloud and pass the print job to my netbook on my lan then it sends it to my nas who prints it on one of my printers. So yes I can find a recipe on my phone get it to print it so i can pick it up from one of my printers when i get home and make my dinner using the recipe i found earlier.
I might try that, should be able to pick up the ingredients i'm short of on the way home...
could understand if it these were new sims but both date to 2009 and one used to be on contract for a usb modem (till they screwed me and i ended the contract).
Just been having more fun today as i was adviced to talk to one of their stores who emailed a copy of my driving license to their area manager. been talking to customer services who asked me to email customer.services.ie@threemail.com which bounced and then i got told it is @3mail.com
I don't get why they have a problem when they didnt for several years previous.
Which browser did you use? I'll give you an example gardenersworld.com has a forum (i've got a tablet running ICS and rooted) now if you go to post a message on android first problem is the text editor will just let you enter text the toolbar is missing (it uses tinymce) so then you get it to send you the desktop site. Ok toolbar is there now. click on the add picture icon pops up a requester select upload a file from your computer and you get a selection of apps to use gallery file manager and a few others but whichever you choose you do not get to upload the file. it usually says something like file not found. With gmail you don't get to open or add attachments.There is an app for that gmail downloader.
In theory opera mini is supposed to be able to upload files i haven't managed it yet i've tried opera firefox google chrome dolphin... This is an android problem, but ios has it and so does the current windows mobile. It's a "feature". Love to see you prove me wrong because it is seriously annoying. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2519 have a look here to see a long thread about this issue.
The ISP which is blocking sites that is 3 ireland and I don't think it was a problem till earlier this year. Seems anything remotely pornographic is blocked, also any site that has any mention of drugs is another. I found searching for any information on grow lights seemed to be blocked. Might surprise some people that grow lights don't have to be used for growing dope! I like gardening I'm growing from seed and this spring has been especially bad. I've rung them, three, about this and it is more than likely down to "Age verification" and I will need to go into a three store to verify my age.
I use pay as you go. Mainly because it gives them less opportunity to screw you. They give me free data if I top up 20 euro a month. I used to have a 3g modem with them on contract. One christmas i blew through my data allowance 2 days early and i think it was the day before my next month was due to start my browser directed me to a page that told me i'd used all my data allowance and i'd used about 80 quids worth of data outside of my plan.
Fell out over that, seemed a bit wrong that they could break into my browser to tell me that after i'd spent 80 quid extra and not when it had run out. Claimed to have sent a text to my modem but since i was running linux i didn't have access to that. Also turns out I was on month to month at that time, having completed my 12 months. So was forced to pay for one more month before I could exit their contracted services.
So in some ways they are bad, others pretty good. I have a proxy server hidden on one of my websites. Which gets me round the filter for static content they don't like me viewing, it can't do video thou. But youtube isn't the smoothest experience at the best of times either even without a proxy.
The Google+ thing is annoying but Google doesnt seem to want to let me upload direct to picasa web albums from android I can upload with g+ and then move the pictures to a private picasa album. The gallery app doesn't want me to view files on my tablet just the ones that are in the "cloud". I like android but this kind of fight shouldn't be happening. If I want to take random pictures of my plants and record how well they are growing (they move fairly slow apart from germination) Android should be ideal time location all stored and if I want to share a picture. E.g my slightly frost bit fuchsias i can link to that picture, but i don't really want to share the crappy pictures i took as well. Secret to being a good photographer only show your good photo's.
might be right about the DNS servers, i used to mess about moving sim cards between my phone and my 3g dongle and with the dongle in my router i just use 8.8.8.8 and 4.4.4.4 for dns. I don't think there was any blockage. These days i just use my phones tether button and connect wirelessly to that. (
Try uploading files with your mobile device without a dedicated app to do so.
It doesn't work, try emailing your cv for example to yourself from your phone. Try making a forum post with an attached file. surprisingly this is a problem on android ios and win8 mobile , it was possible on win mobile 6 its possible on a tablet running linux and of course if you tether your phone to your laptop no problem. Don't know about blackberry, but i'm sure someone will fill in the gap.
Google has become especially annoying want to upload a photo to picasa web albums, not going to work it has to go to google+ first. Do we really have to be social with every photo we take?
So yes great technology but we are being more strictly controlled than ever before. Not even going to go on about websites which your phone operator has decided you shouldn't have access too.
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The Speedometer problem really isnt 120 100 80 60 50 are the common ones in km which are close enough to 75 60 50 40 and 30 mph. It doesnt take much to get used to it. My Car is primarily in mph and I still think in mph and I often will use the Speedometer as a conversion tool so if a road sign says 100 km i'll call it 60 miles.
half a kg is about a pound 8 foot is 240 cm 15mm about half an inch 25gram about an ounce close enough not to worry about it. A euro is a bit less than sterling which perhaps makes me a little frugal when it comes to shopping, if a price seems fair it probably is a bargain.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/yahoo-back-on-top-after-purchasing-millions-of-13y,32497/?ref=auto
SUNNYVALE, CAâ"Finally overcoming competition from the likes of Google, Microsoft, and AOL, internet corporation Yahoo firmly re-secured its place as an industry leader after Sundayâ(TM)s purchase of millions of blogs written by 13-year-old girls. âoeWhile Yahoo has seen its share of struggles over the years, the companyâ(TM)s acquisition of over 100 million blogs written by middle-school females before bedtime has already majorly revitalized the companyâ(TM)s brand,â said BCG consultant Timothy Shore, praising the $1.1 billion purchase of web pages filled with complaints about parents, speculation about cute boys in school, and photos of Robert Pattinson. âoeYahoo is looking to the future here, and tying the entire life of their company to a bunch of pubescent girl bloggers was the smart move.â Yahoo has projected that 13-year-old Melissa Wheelerâ(TM)s blog, mellisasworld.tumlbr.com, would eventually pull in over $2.3 billion for the company
Sounds about right even if that is satire
Thats not what I said thou is it. If you want to live in third world conditions expecting a number of your children to die from poverty and disease and hoping enough will survive to maybe take care of you in your old age then maybe you could give that a go maybe even put your children to work from an early age with little in the way of education or opportunity to not have to make those same choices. Actually choices is the wrong word as it isn't a choice but what circumstances dictate.
Thing is though in the western world letting your children starve to death is not an acceptable option. Not saying it is an acceptable option in the third world though most of us seem content to ignore the reality of it. Even the phrase third world is there to separate our fortunate circumstances from those outside of our national borders.
So maybe I should rephrase my original point, that one major reason for a falling western birthrate is the financial pressure to maintain a standard of living. We don't as a rule get to see our children die, we just don't let them be born in the first place.
Having kids is one of the biggest expenses you can have, there is only so much you can do to reduce the out going expenses of getting by.
You can cut your energy bills using more efficient devices you can choose a smaller car and pay less on fuel and insurance and road tax, you can give up drinking and smoking and maybe grow some of your own food. You can't do much to reduce the cost of housing or the taxes you pay. As a couple with shared housing energy and food costs you can get by and make the mortgage payments but bring a child into the mix and just see how much harder it is to meet the bills.
Falling birth rate of course it is falling, people can't afford to have children, they don't have the income to support having children!
Do you know which antibiotic, you never know it might have a specific application to this problem.
The Drunker you are the more likely you are not to be taking any girl home. Trust me being hammered doesn't impress women. She is even less impressed when you lose your license and even your job when you get done for dui. You may even feel a certain amount of regret when you get refused insurance or quoted extortionate rates due to the dui.
Wouldn't recommend getting the bus for taking a girl home, but a taxi is perfectly fine shows good judgement and a willingness to spend money on more than just booze. You might get the bus in if it is reasonable to do so (you don't have to say how you got into town).
Maybe you might want to think why she is single and available and willing to get in a car with a drunk, might save you from some difficult times ahead.
Could you do me a favour and go to gardenersworld.com/forum/ and see if you can write a post to the forum and upload an image you will need to request the desktop site or you will not get the toolbar with the image upload icon.
It might just be me but i cannot get a file to upload from android
I found the wired article about Heseldens death after falling from a cliff into a river rather insensitive.
Hesco Bastian this morning posted a memorial message and a photo of Heselden, below the jump:
via an app? in a browser uploading files is a problem
It's not an Android thing it's a DRM thing, and not being able to use your hardware properly due to content providers concerns about content that hasn't even been on the device in question.
Take a photo with your device, want to upload it to somewhere other than a pre determined set of sites well tough you can't (try posting a photo or attachment to a forum from a mobile OS.
I wouldn't mind if the app stores were trustworthy but they repeatedly shown to be not. I'm looking particularly at googles play store where the trusted repository can not be trusted. I can only hope there will be a fully functional linux on a tablet this year.
I'm just a little annoyed with some of the 'features' of mobile platform
Yes an adapter "Works" but on android you get a lousy 640x400 ish display as the DRM doesn't like it.
Regular HDMI the display is nice and sharp and hires but via an adapter it is terrible.
I could understand* if it was video playback that it has issues with but everything even the home screen is reduced in quality.
*Still would be quite stupid on video's too as you can just copy them anyway.
I'm reminded of something G W Bush senior said "I don't like broccoli, I've never liked broccoli and now that i'm president I still don't want to eat it", or some along those lines.
The point being he felt he should be able to choose what he ate, and why not. The recent horse meat scandal was not so much about eating horse meat as unknowingly eating horse meat. There is nothing wrong with horse meat in of itself in fact it can be better quality meat than the cow it replaced.
Since becoming an adult you have had the right to choose what to eat, even as a child you could refuse to eat some things. Do you look at the ingredient list on foods that you buy, I do and so do many other people, some times it is for allergies, sometimes for quality. Sometimes for ingredients you would rather not consume.
Do you like to drink carva when the label says champagne can you not distinguish between a golden delicious and a granny smith or a bramley apple?
Do you prefer to buy fish or do you want to choose cod or haddock from china or the north sea?
Can't you see it is all about choice. I really don't care if you live off GM food, myself i'd rather pay a little more and buy a quality product with the flavour and texture that it always has had. The genuine article no less.
Unlike george i do like brocolli, but like george i want to choose what i eat.
âoeThe reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.â
In reality meanwhile, buying boots has become a regular thing since most boots won't last more than 3 months without falling apart especially when wet. It got especially annoying walking in the rain with with wet feet and boots frothing at every step and a label which said waterproof. That for me was the last straw I drove a 100 mile round trip and bought a 2nd hand pair of para boots, they need re - heeling and the total cost is more than I would pay for a regular pair of new boots however these boots will last for years. Some of the best boots available are around â200 a pair and are sold to military personal yes expensive boots compared to the garbage being sold in general today but repaid many times with the quality of the materials and construction. Proper resoling of boots can cost â80 and in Ireland there are few qualified to do the job but its worth every penny. Thing is I remember a time when buying good quality boots was easy and you would get years out of them. Trainers used to last too, normally the reason for getting rid wasn't because they were falling apart but they stunk from years of sweat.
Not sure if that is true, this winter has been a long one the delay of seasonal weather due to the jet stream having been low longer than usual has caused a few problems. It finally moved northwards about 2 weeks ago.
For cattle and sheep apart from the many sheep dead in the UK frozen to death right in the lambing season there has been problems with grazing, the grass has been fairly dormant leaving farmers in a dire situation without feed or money to buy feed for their herds. In Ireland there has been a help line set up to help farmers who cannot feed their animals. For crops the persisting frosts have put many crops and plants around a month behind. The last couple of years the summer temperature and rainfall has lowered yields too.
It's pretty essential that the jet stream rise northwards for europe to experience its 'normal' climate. Without the warm air keeping back the cold air, you don't get the germination temperatures needed.
Natural selection should favour plants most suited to the climate that they grow in, as they will be the plants that grow to maturity and set seed which can be planted the following year. Wouldn't Monsanto seed policy of not allowing seed collection work against natural selection, so the seed available will be the seed Monsanto has decided has optimal characteristics and if they are wrong well that could be a major problem.
Fairly recently Colmans mustard crops were found to have falling yields and it turned out that they needed diverse seeds to get high yields luckily they do keep seed from past years and were able to reverse the trend but without that they were in big trouble.
I don't think Monsanto has it's GM Seed banned in Europe it just isn't welcomed by Europeans and if a product has GM on it, it is labeled as such and it doesn't sell. Fortunately for Monsanto the FDA refuses to label GM food in the USA, if that changed Monsanto likely would be in trouble as consumers boycotted their products.
why wouldn't it be the same as in Europe?
I don't see how it isn't part of the same issue, why else the phoney (sorry) regulator if not to pretend to address the issue of customers who (quite rightly I would say) thought they were getting ripped off.
I seriously doubt anybody would expect to get anywhere with an industry watchdog if it was just a case of the customer not paying for service received. If the bills were legitimate the real regulator would rule in favour of the company and a real court would rule in favour of the phone company allowing real debt collectors to be used.
At least we agree that the company was very dodgy and has now been shut down .
What isn't wrong, is that they sent letters of demand to late paying customers. They had every right to do this, even to use a debt collection agency (after a reasonable time) to recoup the loss. This is fine.
Not so sure about that being fine, as this below was also in the article.
Additionally, the company told customers mobile service was available at their premises when it wasnâ(TM)t, including in indigenous communities.
The Federal Court upheld the ACCC's claim that Excite Mobile's âoeday capâ clause was unconscionable. The clause meant any customer making more than one two minute call per day would get charged excess fees over the monthly contract charge, which it did not disclose.
Excite Mobile also included a $75 cool off fee on its contracts as well as a $195 charge for returning a damaged phone.
So you have a contract where you have no coverage or if you do have coverage making more than a 2 minute phone call will generate excess fee's and even if you want to cancel they charge you for that too.
These late payments are not the usual problem of customer not having the money but customers receiving outrageous bills over and above their contracts or not getting the service they were promised.
Mobile phone companies have for years gotten away with charging customers for free phone numbers and not including non geographic phone numbers as part of your bundled minutes. Many big companies use non geographic numbers for their customer support and billing call centres, and usually you are held in a queue paying for it.
However this is a new low even for a mobile phone company, excess charges for day time calls in excess of 2 minutes, would you pay it?
Got to admit even without a contract phone companies still find ways to stitch up their customers.
Three mobile for instance give customers free unlimited data for 30 days and even an extra 10 euro phone credit when a top up of 20 euro is made (topping up twice with 10 euro doesn't count even if the machine will not issue a 20 euro top up).
However day 31 is interesting. last month i had around 25 euro of credit. At 5:30 am i had used about 6 euro of credit on data by 5:34 am a further 12 euro and by 6:30 am my balance had gone.
The key thing to do is to buy a 30 day 500mb add on for 4.99 twice. the 2nd one will get queued. The first one will just expire with no usage and then the 2nd will kick in and probably last for 30 days. As a light user of calls and texts that would leave 5 euro for calls in month1 (typical non free usage) and in the 2nd month I would have 5 euro left but since i wouldn't have free weekend calls and free weekend texts, i'd be out of credit in a week or a fortnight anyway.
Should I be annoyed? well not really I get internet access for 20 euro a month and that is still cheap compared with the other options as landlines have line rental + internet access in the city. The only fast option here is wimaxx which is around 35 euro a month so i'm happy enough with what I have (i'd still have to pay for my mobile as well).
I'm better off than Excites' customers that were suckered into a contract which seemed on paper to be better value than the competition, but with excess usage charges after 2 minutes a day, are in practice more expensive and they have a 2 year lock on the customer
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At least with my provider i am free to change at any time (my sim remains in service even with no credit for receiving calls). So far I haven't found a better deal and I will not go back to contract phones.
Funny thing is Google do respond by email when it is needed. I reported a problem with the navigation product and an illegal right turn it directed me to do.
After a while i got an email saying i was right and it was fixed.
I think Google provides some of the best customer service in the world, after all i can ask them anything and they usually give me pages and pages of answers, heck they answer questions on subjects totally unrelated to google.
You can't fix stupid though no matter how many emails you send.
might have something to do with how the plants were getting exposed to the hydrogen sulphide gas on a regular basis. could be embarrasing
I don't think you can take 4g in isolation since there are alternatives such as 3g and broadband, wimax, satellite.
How much internet access do you need when you are out and about?
Most of the time when I am not at home, I am driving and not using the net or somewhere where there is wifi. I guess people riding the bus can use 4g but are they the people that can afford 4g?
Nobody needs 4g at any price, but if the cost is reasonable then people will use it. Reasonable has to compete with free data on 3g, most cell phone plans include some.
Thanks i will try a few more file managers see if they are more successful.
Linux is not a product, Big screen Tv's, chromebooks , phones these are products People want to buy stuff for specific things. Linux might be a part of that thing but so are capacitors and resistors and people don't care about them either.
Googles been a bit more unusual in that they have pretty much branded an experience. So you buy an android phone or tablet or a chromebook. So if its an android phone expect it to do the same stuff in general as any other android phone or tablet. Chromebook all the things you can do in your browser minus all the windows stuff that gets in your way.
Nothing worse than starting a computer to do something and the first thing it wants to do is scan for virus and malware, slowing it down to a crawl and getting in the way of what you want to do. Probably a good reason office PC's tended to be left on, so they were ready to work when their operator is.
Linux may be doing the behind the scenes work, but although your samsung tv might run linux it doesnt run android (unless it says it does) so you can't expect to install android apps on your tv.
I guess i am writing on a gnomebook or maybe just Mint or Ubuntu, or Debian. Or Unity. It's all Linux really but most of these terms other than gnomebook tell you what to expect and roughly what can be run. I find non technical people who use ubuntu will use the word ubuntu rather than Linux and i think that is fair enough ubuntu is a product a type of Linux. Android, Ubuntu types of Linux with different expectations, different user experiences.
The only gripe really is with hardware manufacturers who are blinded by windows, and target just Windows.
If a printer is windows only then i'm probably not going to be able to print from my linux running tv. On the other hand there is quite a good chance if it does.
I'd kind of hope that most current printers should support printing from ios mac linux and android at the very least.
Actually Androids cloud print supports a small server service bundled with chrome so I can share my printer attached to my nas with my mint running netbook and this connects to googles cloud print. so yes i can print from my phone to the cloud and pass the print job to my netbook on my lan then it sends it to my nas who prints it on one of my printers. So yes I can find a recipe on my phone get it to print it so i can pick it up from one of my printers when i get home and make my dinner using the recipe i found earlier.
I might try that, should be able to pick up the ingredients i'm short of on the way home...
could understand if it these were new sims but both date to 2009 and one used to be on contract for a usb modem (till they screwed me and i ended the contract).
Just been having more fun today as i was adviced to talk to one of their stores who emailed a copy of my driving license to their area manager. been talking to customer services who asked me to email customer.services.ie@threemail.com which bounced and then i got told it is @3mail.com
I don't get why they have a problem when they didnt for several years previous.
Which browser did you use? I'll give you an example gardenersworld.com has a forum (i've got a tablet running ICS and rooted) now if you go to post a message on android first problem is the text editor will just let you enter text the toolbar is missing (it uses tinymce) so then you get it to send you the desktop site. Ok toolbar is there now. click on the add picture icon pops up a requester select upload a file from your computer and you get a selection of apps to use gallery file manager and a few others but whichever you choose you do not get to upload the file. it usually says something like file not found. With gmail you don't get to open or add attachments.There is an app for that gmail downloader.
In theory opera mini is supposed to be able to upload files i haven't managed it yet i've tried opera firefox google chrome dolphin... This is an android problem, but ios has it and so does the current windows mobile. It's a "feature". Love to see you prove me wrong because it is seriously annoying.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2519
have a look here to see a long thread about this issue.
The ISP which is blocking sites that is 3 ireland and I don't think it was a problem till earlier this year. Seems anything remotely pornographic is blocked, also any site that has any mention of drugs is another. I found searching for any information on grow lights seemed to be blocked. Might surprise some people that grow lights don't have to be used for growing dope! I like gardening I'm growing from seed and this spring has been especially bad. I've rung them, three, about this and it is more than likely down to "Age verification" and I will need to go into a three store to verify my age.
I use pay as you go. Mainly because it gives them less opportunity to screw you. They give me free data if I top up 20 euro a month. I used to have a 3g modem with them on contract. One christmas i blew through my data allowance 2 days early and i think it was the day before my next month was due to start my browser directed me to a page that told me i'd used all my data allowance and i'd used about 80 quids worth of data outside of my plan.
Fell out over that, seemed a bit wrong that they could break into my browser to tell me that after i'd spent 80 quid extra and not when it had run out. Claimed to have sent a text to my modem but since i was running linux i didn't have access to that. Also turns out I was on month to month at that time, having completed my 12 months. So was forced to pay for one more month before I could exit their contracted services.
So in some ways they are bad, others pretty good. I have a proxy server hidden on one of my websites. Which gets me round the filter for static content they don't like me viewing, it can't do video thou. But youtube isn't the smoothest experience at the best of times either even without a proxy.
The Google+ thing is annoying but Google doesnt seem to want to let me upload direct to picasa web albums from android I can upload with g+ and then move the pictures to a private picasa album. The gallery app doesn't want me to view files on my tablet just the ones that are in the "cloud". I like android but this kind of fight shouldn't be happening. If I want to take random pictures of my plants and record how well they are growing (they move fairly slow apart from germination) Android should be ideal time location all stored and if I want to share a picture. E.g my slightly frost bit fuchsias i can link to that picture, but i don't really want to share the crappy pictures i took as well. Secret to being a good photographer only show your good photo's .
might be right about the DNS servers, i used to mess about moving sim cards between my phone and my 3g dongle and with the dongle in my router i just use 8.8.8.8 and 4.4.4.4 for dns. I don't think there was any blockage. These days i just use my phones tether button and connect wirelessly to that. (
Try uploading files with your mobile device without a dedicated app to do so.
It doesn't work, try emailing your cv for example to yourself from your phone. Try making a forum post with an attached file. surprisingly this is a problem on android ios and win8 mobile , it was possible on win mobile 6 its possible on a tablet running linux and of course if you tether your phone to your laptop no problem. Don't know about blackberry, but i'm sure someone will fill in the gap.
Google has become especially annoying want to upload a photo to picasa web albums, not going to work it has to go to google+ first. Do we really have to be social with every photo we take?
So yes great technology but we are being more strictly controlled than ever before. Not even going to go on about websites which your phone operator has decided you shouldn't have access too.
You don't , your new boss does.
Your home computer doesn't get audited, your work one might.