Smart phones don't have to cost $100's mine cost me 69 euro prepay not the biggest or the best but it has pretty much all the functionality of its pricier rivals. I get unlimited data if i top up by 20 euro for 30 days, compared to any other broad band package its around half the cost of most plans when you add in line rental and i get to use that credit for calls and texts i already get 3000 texts a month and 3000 weekend minutes any way for that month. How does that compare with your bills?
The one thing that is of interest is there is an app for potholes! Over winter here in Ireland potholes are a major problem, it seems they only get fixed in spring. unfortunately the pothole app isn't available here or you could bet there would be a lot of people running it. Although realistically the council would still go patching in spring regardless.
If people know about the pothole app it will get installed where ever its available potholes damage all cars. If affluent area's are getting potholes fixed sooner that sounds more like a political choice rather than lack of data. It is a poor example of how smartphone data can be used. However it doesn't change the fact that some commercial companies can use the data to target certain markets. you generally would be wasting money targeting say double glazing to people who rent their homes but you might target over priced short term loans to that market instead.
Daytime TV adverts are an interesting area to observe. Full of adverts for accident compensation solicitors and over 50's life cover. Pretty obvious who they are targeting.
In a post apocayptical world, you would have to have amniesia to not get a working electricity supply back fairly quickly. The obvious renewable is wood and with water that gets you steam which can drive a turbine which drives a generator. Would it really be so hard to ramp up to modern civilisation? Its not like we would have to invent things more reimpliment the things that already have existed in one form or another.
While i happen to have a plc that would run off 12 volts. its basically relay logic anyway so scavange from a few cars and i can automate from that basis. probably the two most important things needed are electricity and refridgearation. computers would be one of the best accelerators of recovery.
grive is available as a linux client for the google gdrive. It syncs a folder to the gdrive so you don't have to be on a particular computer/phone/tablet or operating system.
It's pretty useful especially to students, they get network storage in the college but its not really much use to them outside of the college most use unbacked up usb sticks which is fine until they fail...
well your free to do as you please but for mint 16 and probably ubuntu users this snippet may be of interest
You can use this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~dirk-co...... 2-backport. Just open Software Sources from your menu, go to PPA, click Add, and enter this: ppa:dirk-computer42/c42-backport
It gives you iceweasel at version 24 (you can also keep firefox v28 but not run both at the same time). Personally I think its a reasonable compromise.
A lot has changed in 30 years:) though steel is still crystalline:) There has been some increase in knowledge since my day (we used electron microscopes and we liked it) cold drawing of steel takes some force hard to imagine it being done on less than an industrial scale. anyway agreed we're in violent agreement:)
I guess it might be possible to make composite materials by 3d printing in quite complicated forms but generally the strength is never going to match our metals and alloys.
Trouble is your broadband typically relies on pots to work, cable tv providers don't reach everybody even in cabled area's.
I live in an area where there is never going to be cable tv its uneconomic for them to lay cable this far out. DSL via the phone line is also not possible due to distance from the exchange and 3g barely works. Cell service is adequate for text messaging but making voice calls is tricky you have to be in precisely the right place for you and the person you are talking too to hear each other.
when it rains the 3g service becomes intermittent. Even the satellite tv broadcaster needs a pots connection to use their broadband option.
You cannot 3D print out high tensile strength steel wire, because that strength comes from the orientation of the atom and molecules. That orientation is achieved by drawing it through a die.
no it isn't Steel is an alloy of primarily iron crystals with interstitial carbon atoms which lock the slip plains of the iron crystals. There is a lot more to it than that but making a high tensile steel wire is not like making a rope although it is drawn done through dies. But you are right you will not be 3d printing a high tensile steel wire but not for the reasons you have stated.
Yesterday I was involved in an issue installing reason5 on a mac running maverick it doesn't work using normal instalation methods.
Later versions version 6 and version 7 do but require more resources and a new licence. There is more than one program on OSX which doesn't work with Maverick.
I did get it working by installing the (3.9GB) demo version of reason 7 it patched the system and while having that open and running I was able to install reason 5 (it overwrote the reason 7 files) a couple of files also had to be copied into the reason folder from the reason5 install disc. However once i'd done this Reason version 5 was installed and running correctly.
So from my experience with OSX I'd have to conclude that it is user friendly except for the times when it isn't. Much like other operating systems really.
I do wish developers would try to be helpful when their programs crash or fail. Or failing that a program like snoopdos from the Amiga would be wonderful. This program would monitor a program and tell you where it succeeded or failed. The Amiga used shared library files much like.dll files on windows Snoopdos would tell you the version number it was looking for and if it failed it might be something like arp.lib version 1.4 and version 1.3 was installed so it would normally be a matter of finding version 1.4 or later putting that in the libs folder and then the call would succeed. The nice thing about libs was that later versions extended functionality but never removed existing functions. Other calls might be for a particular font to be loaded and you would know that was needed to get the program to work. I know Amiga os is a dinosaur in todays world but they got a few things spot on.
Most posts on Slashdot are unhelpful drivel, although some are golden. How do comments made on slashdot relate to Linux?
Did he mention the system used to work as expected, and now is broken?
I read your comment why wouldn't I have read the summary? but yes it is at the top of the page if you use your page up button you can check for yourself. do you have a UI that allows you to do that? You might consider my reply insulting but look at what you wrote.
If I was a Linux advocate, I'd be ashamed of the community over stupid crap like this situation.
which community? which situation? That a Slashdot story has a lot of crappy comments? That you post flamebait and it gets modded insightful? As a member of the same species as yourself its a sad situation to see posts like yours and the story was overstated. A feature of sticky keys was broken.
from latter posts it appears there is a patch for it, but it appears that it has to be approved and tested by one guy who is overworked, thats not a good situation but perhaps someone who has the knowledge and ability to work on X might step up to help out.
they have some shockingly badly supported gpu;s on netbooks. that with cinimon are running the cpu at 250% at idle due to software rendering. with mate its around 5% idle. But no 3d anything and im sure the gpu could work quite well
I guess it depends on the parent but homework seems to something that involves parents with their kids lives you know where they talk to them.
I think that beats sitting in front of the TV and just providing meals and a change of clothes. It also involves the parents with the kids progression through school. Teachers don't really have enough time in a lesson to make sure the kids are actually learning what they are supposed to be learning.
It seems to get worse as the kids get older, teachers tend to become baby sitters rather than educators. Its great when you find a teacher who manages to raise an interest in their subject for a kid but we all pretty much know which teachers educated us and which were in the same room for a year or two.
I really don't get on with these studies that try to say homework is worthless it isn't and just gives parents an excuse not to spend time with their kids.
I think you forgot about the 1% or so of useful information from our friends and family, that is the reason for having a facebook account, but the internet is not facebook, most people I know don't use slashdot for example but slashdot does cater to some of my interests. Soylentnews is now overlapping quite nicely with slashdot similar subjects but a lot less spammy trolls. It's probably not going to stay that way.
There are quite a few other sites I use as well such as photography sites , gardening sites and others ebay is useful to me for buying relatively obscure items that are not available locally. there are local market place sites to use as well for example donedeal.ie is good for finding cars in ireland adverts.ie can be a handy place to find items locally.
So honestly facebook is just a feed to me of things i might actually care about and a lot i don't. I don't think i am unusual in using it that way. The instant messaging side of facebook is also handy when there is something i want to talk about with a particular person.
I honestly don't believe facebook has what it thinks it has, because most of the stuff that matters to people is not done on facebook and g+ is a complete failure because it doesn't provide anything that is of any use. one feed of mostly useless crap is enough.
That might be the case, I've seen conditions that say something like by entering the event you are concenting to be filmed ect. This was for a rock concert in the uk at sheffield arena. This was posted at every entrance into the place. I would imagine it would be part of the terms and conditions of tickets for the Hungarian GP.
Incidentally a lot of places require you to have public liability cover of several million as a photographer or you will not get access. which kind of makes sense even if most of the time its never needed. (was a case of a photographer stepping back knocked into an old lady who went over and cracked her skull freak accident but it was worth his premium) Track side photography has even higher insurance requirements.
This new law in Hungary is ripe for abuse, never again can compromising pictures of politicians and celebrities be taken.
On the otherhand you could argue that there are some times it would be better for people involved if there was no picture. On thursday i was on my way home and came upon a car on its roof that had just crashed, I stopped and helped unfortunately one lad died later at the scene. There are photo's of the car on several news websites and it feels quite raw seeing it there just for me and it must be worse for the families of the kids that were in that crash. Feels a lot different when you crawled in through the window and found it impossible to do anything to help the kid trapped inside. does there need to be a picture?
It is a boarding school, maybe 35 hours might be spent in a classroom, just a small fraction of the 168 hours they are at the school for during term time. Some might not even go home during the shorter breaks like a weeks half term.
The school has the responsibility for those kids 24/7 most of the year. It may seem a little harsh but these kids are not destined to work in factories or Mcdonalds. Their parents are paying a lot of money to have them study there.
It is a difficult role the school has to take on the role of parent or guardian which does mean filtering the content the kids are exposed to. If a parent wants to provide an unfiltered connection they probably could afford to do so but would be discouraged from doing so. It's a guilded cage for the kids but when they are adults and have their own kids they will probably make the same choice.
It's not so daft allowing some prisoners to vote in elections. Think about why you are locking them away and why you are releasing them.
People go to prison for breaking our societies rules, it's pretty pointless releasing them if they have no way to re engage with society in a lawful way. It's better for society for prisoners to be released and get jobs and become a productive part of society again. If these prisoners can't be integrated with society then its likely they will prey on the community instead. Then we end up paying to keep them locked up instead this time for longer and even less chance of being able to reintegrate.
If your saying to people you have no part in our society then what reason do they have to have any regard you your family your property ever.
384 although my preference is (32 x10) + (32 x 2) I was figuring out cubic concrete say 4.5 * 5 *.1 2.25 but twice as deep 4.5.15 deep 3.38 near enough. There is a lot of mental math that you can breakdown this way.
some of us haven't bothered using our mod points one way or the other. Think of it as a taster of what beta is going to do to this site. The boycott starts tomorrow. For a week.
Hopefully Dice will get the message, without the many people who contribute to slashdot the site is worthless. How do you think slashdot is going to be without its core contributors? I think you're starting to see it already. next week will be worse much worse.
slashdot always has been a noisy site. slashdot beta is awful and not what any of the people who contribute to the site want. There really is only one place to organise any form of protest against the proposed changes and that is slashdot. Even the trolls are protesting slashdot beta, I tend to think more in the nature of trolling than protesting. on the positive side there seems to be less of the usual trolling posts.
It's out there now that there is going to be a boycott of slashdot from the 10th to the 17th I don't think it matters by how much the traffic drops more who decides to boycott the site and that really needs to be the registered users who contribute to the site.
What makes Slashdot good is the writers who contribute on a regular basis. We may not get paid and we don't always get modded up to +5 but without us slashdot becomes a sewer with no redeeming features. At least for a week. Even if you can't give up slashdot for a week, don't post don't moderate. Just let the anonymous cowards do their thing. Apologies to the ac's that do make positive posts as ac but even as an ac don't bother commenting. let the trolls run riot for that week.
A week of no posts worth reading should make dice realise that without the freely given contributions from us slashdot is worthless.it will be effective. What can dice do? get the editors to post while all of slashdots real writers take a break. Set timothy and soulskill the task of moderating the entire site and without positive content what will they moderate?
Like christmas future in a christmas carol let them see what slashdot can become, just for a week.
There is a value in slashdot but like myspace that value can go down as well as up.
To be honest I think Dice need a preview. I suggest a weeks boycott of slashdot
I think I can last a week. If enough of us stay away then they should notice the drop in traffic. prior to forcing us into slashdot beta.
I started getting the we are going to start forcing peope into slashdot beta notice today. Is it telling on a site where you can just hit reply and write. The link to tell us what you think is a mailto link?
so in order to send a message to dice I think a boycott is the only way to go and show we are serious. so thats it for me till next wednesday. After all if they change to slashdot beta I'm out of here for good. feel free to pass the word. If we do not work together on this its going to be unstoppable.
one thing microsoft don't want to be compatible with is pdf i was looking for a pdf print driver today but all seemed to have issues with cost or adware. seems the easiest solution is to use libre office or open office for conversion.
There is an American company with a British subsiduary named wonga with a apr of that sort of figure apr. There was an interesting documentary about bank of dave a small bank set up by a businessman called dave. In this documentary he looked into the payday loan companies and actually went round to the uk offices of many of these companies all of which were just mail forwarding addresses and all pretty much run by American companies. Some offices were just empty buildings.
Britain does have a problem having a government unwilling to regulate in anyway. There is even an industry body for these payday loan companies and they will not even contemplate a figure for an apr which would be considered excessive.
Dave actually did put money into giving loans at reasonable rates and he was getting the payments back. As these high risk clients were more than willing to pay for loans at reasonable rates.
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Was there a real need to drop a second bomb? Certainly seems like nobody wants to use the third bomb.
Smart phones don't have to cost $100's mine cost me 69 euro prepay not the biggest or the best but it has pretty much all the functionality of its pricier rivals. I get unlimited data if i top up by 20 euro for 30 days, compared to any other broad band package its around half the cost of most plans when you add in line rental and i get to use that credit for calls and texts i already get 3000 texts a month and 3000 weekend minutes any way for that month. How does that compare with your bills?
The one thing that is of interest is there is an app for potholes! Over winter here in Ireland potholes are a major problem, it seems they only get fixed in spring. unfortunately the pothole app isn't available here or you could bet there would be a lot of people running it. Although realistically the council would still go patching in spring regardless.
If people know about the pothole app it will get installed where ever its available potholes damage all cars. If affluent area's are getting potholes fixed sooner that sounds more like a political choice rather than lack of data. It is a poor example of how smartphone data can be used. However it doesn't change the fact that some commercial companies can use the data to target certain markets. you generally would be wasting money targeting say double glazing to people who rent their homes but you might target over priced short term loans to that market instead.
Daytime TV adverts are an interesting area to observe. Full of adverts for accident compensation solicitors and over 50's life cover. Pretty obvious who they are targeting.
In a post apocayptical world, you would have to have amniesia to not get a working electricity supply back fairly quickly. The obvious renewable is wood and with water that gets you steam which can drive a turbine which drives a generator. Would it really be so hard to ramp up to modern civilisation? Its not like we would have to invent things more reimpliment the things that already have existed in one form or another.
While i happen to have a plc that would run off 12 volts. its basically relay logic anyway so scavange from a few cars and i can automate from that basis. probably the two most important things needed are electricity and refridgearation. computers would be one of the best accelerators of recovery.
Yes, but it is a learning experience, once you have been burned you should learn that you need at least 2 copies and if it matters a third at least.
Actually it would be a good idea if say office programs would save in a couple of locations by default and perhaps some versioning as well.
grive is available as a linux client for the google gdrive. It syncs a folder to the gdrive so you don't have to be on a particular computer/phone/tablet or operating system.
It's pretty useful especially to students, they get network storage in the college but its not really much use to them outside of the college most use unbacked up usb sticks which is fine until they fail...
typically downed tools and walked off the job.
They put down the tools they were working with and walked off the job.
Or Down tools we're on strike.
usually its some form of strike action followed by up tools and back to work.
in this case they stopped work and walked out.
well your free to do as you please but for mint 16 and probably ubuntu users this snippet may be of interest
You can use this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~dirk-co... ... 2-backport. Just open Software Sources from your menu, go to PPA, click Add, and enter this: ppa:dirk-computer42/c42-backport
It gives you iceweasel at version 24 (you can also keep firefox v28 but not run both at the same time).
Personally I think its a reasonable compromise.
A lot has changed in 30 years :) though steel is still crystalline:) There has been some increase in knowledge since my day (we used electron microscopes and we liked it) cold drawing of steel takes some force hard to imagine it being done on less than an industrial scale. anyway agreed we're in violent agreement :)
I guess it might be possible to make composite materials by 3d printing in quite complicated forms but generally the strength is never going to match our metals and alloys.
Trouble is your broadband typically relies on pots to work, cable tv providers don't reach everybody even in cabled area's.
I live in an area where there is never going to be cable tv its uneconomic for them to lay cable this far out. DSL via the phone line is also not possible due to distance from the exchange and 3g barely works.
Cell service is adequate for text messaging but making voice calls is tricky you have to be in precisely the right place for you and the person you are talking too to hear each other.
when it rains the 3g service becomes intermittent. Even the satellite tv broadcaster needs a pots connection to use their broadband option.
You cannot 3D print out high tensile strength steel wire, because that strength comes from the orientation of the atom and molecules. That orientation is achieved by drawing it through a die.
no it isn't Steel is an alloy of primarily iron crystals with interstitial carbon atoms which lock the slip plains of the iron crystals. There is a lot more to it than that but making a high tensile steel wire is not like making a rope although it is drawn done through dies. But you are right you will not be 3d printing a high tensile steel wire but not for the reasons you have stated.
Yesterday I was involved in an issue installing reason5 on a mac running maverick
it doesn't work using normal instalation methods.
Later versions version 6 and version 7 do but require more resources and a new licence. There is more than one program on OSX which doesn't work with Maverick.
I did get it working by installing the (3.9GB) demo version of reason 7 it patched the system and while having that open and running I was able to install reason 5 (it overwrote the reason 7 files) a couple of files also had to be copied into the reason folder from the reason5 install disc. However once i'd done this Reason version 5 was installed and running correctly.
So from my experience with OSX I'd have to conclude that it is user friendly except for the times when it isn't.
Much like other operating systems really.
I do wish developers would try to be helpful when their programs crash or fail. Or failing that a program like snoopdos from the Amiga would be wonderful. This program would monitor a program and tell you where it succeeded or failed. The Amiga used shared library files much like .dll files on windows Snoopdos would tell you the version number it was looking for and if it failed it might be something like arp.lib version 1.4 and version 1.3 was installed so it would normally be a matter of finding version 1.4 or later putting that in the libs folder and then the call would succeed. The nice thing about libs was that later versions extended functionality but never removed existing functions. Other calls might be for a particular font to be loaded and you would know that was needed to get the program to work. I know Amiga os is a dinosaur in todays world but they got a few things spot on.
Most posts on Slashdot are unhelpful drivel, although some are golden.
How do comments made on slashdot relate to Linux?
Did he mention the system used to work as expected, and now is broken?
I read your comment why wouldn't I have read the summary? but yes it is at the top of the page if you use your page up button you can check for yourself. do you have a UI that allows you to do that? You might consider my reply insulting but look at what you wrote.
If I was a Linux advocate, I'd be ashamed of the community over stupid crap like this situation.
which community? which situation? That a Slashdot story has a lot of crappy comments? That you post flamebait and it gets modded insightful? As a member of the same species as yourself its a sad situation to see posts like yours and the story was overstated. A feature of sticky keys was broken.
from latter posts it appears there is a patch for it, but it appears that it has to be approved and tested by one guy who is overworked, thats not a good situation but perhaps someone who has the knowledge and ability to work on X might step up to help out.
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly! :)
keywords turkey helicopter and thanks giving if you don't get the reference.
they have some shockingly badly supported gpu;s on netbooks. that with cinimon are running the cpu at 250% at idle due to software rendering. with mate its around 5% idle. But no 3d anything and im sure the gpu could work quite well
I guess it depends on the parent but homework seems to something that involves parents with their kids lives you know where they talk to them.
I think that beats sitting in front of the TV and just providing meals and a change of clothes. It also involves the parents with the kids progression through school. Teachers don't really have enough time in a lesson to make sure the kids are actually learning what they are supposed to be learning.
It seems to get worse as the kids get older, teachers tend to become baby sitters rather than educators. Its great when you find a teacher who manages to raise an interest in their subject for a kid but we all pretty much know which teachers educated us and which were in the same room for a year or two.
I really don't get on with these studies that try to say homework is worthless it isn't and just gives parents an excuse not to spend time with their kids.
I think you forgot about the 1% or so of useful information from our friends and family, that is the reason for having a facebook account, but the internet is not facebook, most people I know don't use slashdot for example but slashdot does cater to some of my interests. Soylentnews is now overlapping quite nicely with slashdot similar subjects but a lot less spammy trolls. It's probably not going to stay that way.
There are quite a few other sites I use as well such as photography sites , gardening sites and others ebay is useful to me for buying relatively obscure items that are not available locally. there are local market place sites to use as well for example donedeal.ie is good for finding cars in ireland adverts.ie can be a handy place to find items locally.
So honestly facebook is just a feed to me of things i might actually care about and a lot i don't. I don't think i am unusual in using it that way. The instant messaging side of facebook is also handy when there is something i want to talk about with a particular person.
I honestly don't believe facebook has what it thinks it has, because most of the stuff that matters to people is not done on facebook and g+ is a complete failure because it doesn't provide anything that is of any use. one feed of mostly useless crap is enough.
That might be the case, I've seen conditions that say something like by entering the event you are concenting to be filmed ect. This was for a rock concert in the uk at sheffield arena. This was posted at every entrance into the place. I would imagine it would be part of the terms and conditions of tickets for the Hungarian GP.
Incidentally a lot of places require you to have public liability cover of several million as a photographer or you will not get access. which kind of makes sense even if most of the time its never needed. (was a case of a photographer stepping back knocked into an old lady who went over and cracked her skull freak accident but it was worth his premium) Track side photography has even higher insurance requirements.
This new law in Hungary is ripe for abuse, never again can compromising pictures of politicians and celebrities be taken.
On the otherhand you could argue that there are some times it would be better for people involved if there was no picture. On thursday i was on my way home and came upon a car on its roof that had just crashed, I stopped and helped unfortunately one lad died later at the scene. There are photo's of the car on several news websites and it feels quite raw seeing it there just for me and it must be worse for the families of the kids that were in that crash. Feels a lot different when you crawled in through the window and found it impossible to do anything to help the kid trapped inside. does there need to be a picture?
It is a boarding school, maybe 35 hours might be spent in a classroom, just a small fraction of the 168 hours they are at the school for during term time. Some might not even go home during the shorter breaks like a weeks half term.
The school has the responsibility for those kids 24/7 most of the year. It may seem a little harsh but these kids are not destined to work in factories or Mcdonalds. Their parents are paying a lot of money to have them study there.
It is a difficult role the school has to take on the role of parent or guardian which does mean filtering the content the kids are exposed to. If a parent wants to provide an unfiltered connection they probably could afford to do so but would be discouraged from doing so. It's a guilded cage for the kids but when they are adults and have their own kids they will probably make the same choice.
It's not so daft allowing some prisoners to vote in elections. Think about why you are locking them away and why you are releasing them.
People go to prison for breaking our societies rules, it's pretty pointless releasing them if they have no way to re engage with society in a lawful way. It's better for society for prisoners to be released and get jobs and become a productive part of society again. If these prisoners can't be integrated with society then its likely they will prey on the community instead. Then we end up paying to keep them locked up instead this time for longer and even less chance of being able to reintegrate.
If your saying to people you have no part in our society then what reason do they have to have any regard you your family your property ever.
384 although my preference is (32 x10) + (32 x 2) I was figuring out cubic concrete say 4.5 * 5 * .1 2.25 but twice as deep 4.5 .15 deep 3.38 near enough. There is a lot of mental math that you can breakdown this way.
some of us haven't bothered using our mod points one way or the other. Think of it as a taster of what beta is going to do to this site. The boycott starts tomorrow. For a week.
Hopefully Dice will get the message, without the many people who contribute to slashdot the site is worthless.
How do you think slashdot is going to be without its core contributors? I think you're starting to see it already.
next week will be worse much worse.
slashdot always has been a noisy site.
slashdot beta is awful and not what any of the people who contribute to the site want.
There really is only one place to organise any form of protest against the proposed changes and that is slashdot.
Even the trolls are protesting slashdot beta, I tend to think more in the nature of trolling than protesting. on the positive side there seems to be less of the usual trolling posts.
It's out there now that there is going to be a boycott of slashdot from the 10th to the 17th
I don't think it matters by how much the traffic drops more who decides to boycott the site and that really needs to be the registered users who contribute to the site.
What makes Slashdot good is the writers who contribute on a regular basis. We may not get paid and we don't always get modded up to +5 but without us slashdot becomes a sewer with no redeeming features. At least for a week. Even if you can't give up slashdot for a week, don't post don't moderate. Just let the anonymous cowards do their thing. Apologies to the ac's that do make positive posts as ac but even as an ac don't
bother commenting. let the trolls run riot for that week.
A week of no posts worth reading should make dice realise that without the freely given contributions from us slashdot is worthless.it will be effective. What can dice do? get the editors to post while all of slashdots real writers take a break. Set timothy and soulskill the task of moderating the entire site and without positive content what will they moderate?
Like christmas future in a christmas carol let them see what slashdot can become, just for a week.
There is a value in slashdot but like myspace that value can go down as well as up.
To be honest I think Dice need a preview. I suggest a weeks boycott of slashdot
I think I can last a week. If enough of us stay away then they should notice the drop in traffic. prior to forcing us into slashdot beta.
I started getting the we are going to start forcing peope into slashdot beta notice today. Is it telling on a site where you can just hit reply and write. The link to tell us what you think is a mailto link?
so in order to send a message to dice I think a boycott is the only way to go and show we are serious.
so thats it for me till next wednesday. After all if they change to slashdot beta I'm out of here for good.
feel free to pass the word. If we do not work together on this its going to be unstoppable.
one thing microsoft don't want to be compatible with is pdf i was looking for a pdf print driver today but all seemed to have issues with cost or adware. seems the easiest solution is to use libre office or open office for conversion.
There is an American company with a British subsiduary named wonga with a apr of that sort of figure apr.
There was an interesting documentary about bank of dave a small bank set up by a businessman called dave. In this documentary he looked into the payday loan companies and actually went round to the uk offices of many of these companies all of which were just mail forwarding addresses and all pretty much run by American companies. Some offices were just empty buildings.
Britain does have a problem having a government unwilling to regulate in anyway. There is even an industry body for these payday loan companies and they will not even contemplate a figure for an apr which would be considered excessive.
Dave actually did put money into giving loans at reasonable rates and he was getting the payments back. As these high risk clients were more than willing to pay for loans at reasonable rates.