I am glad that you think I am a native English speaker and thus should know this. Thanks for the compliment. I hope I make the same mistake when you pluralize in my language.
The UK has the most camera's per capita, I think. Are there any numbers available on how much crime has decreased in those areas where the camera's are? Also how much have they incread in surrounding areas where they are not.
Next what is the cost to keep them running and what was the value of goods being stolen.
Also it would be interesting to see if people feel safer because there are camera's to watch over them or if they feel unsafer to have camera's watch over them.
I can imagine that the cost is much higher and that theft has just moved and people feel less safe while it costs much more even when compared to what is stolen. So all in all good for the few companies in those areas, but bad for the community as a whole.
In Belgium a standard is around 20GB-30GB per month and that only because they have seriously increased it. I can get web hosting where I get more data transfer for much less and those need to rent the traffic from elsewhere.
The ONLY thing I am paying for is bandwidth and email. I pay separately for the phone line that carries the ADSL, so it isn't the last mile that makes them so expensive. It is because they can.
Luckily I am with a smaller provider who has no limits for just a bit more then those who DO have limits.
I know people who stick with the limits, even if that means slow connections for most of the month (I am talking 3 weeks slow) and still do not want to switch to one that might be a bit slower, but give you a connection all of the month at the same good speed.
Is this not something that is done by default in the USofA?
In Belgium this is very standard practice. Especially for fixed amounts, like your provider or electricity. It is also done with varable bills, like your credit card. In the Netherlands, you can even give somebody an allowed one time to do this for purchases over the phone. Something that is not possible i Belgium.
Stopping this is done almost immidiate and I yet have to hear about big problems. Smaller problems exist, but those get payed back almost immidiatly. Usualay you pay about 1EUR less if you use it. The reason it is cheaper is because it is also cheaper for the company. One of the high costs of a company is to get money from people who pay too late or not at all, even though they have a signed contract to do so.
The company needs to send two reminders and then aquire a billcollector. And all of this just because the person forgot to pay. People who are unwilling to pay won't be using this anyway, so it is so people don't get charged for late payment, while the company has less work looking for those 25EUR you need to pay each month for your internet.
I am happily using it for many things where I would be willing to pay monthly anyway and the moment I want it to stop, I do so online and the automatic transfer is stopped. So they not so much take what they want (exept for the credit card company) they get what I give them.
The credit card company also can not withdraw more then is on my account and in Belgium everybody has two accounts. One davings and one to use with others.
I would leave the icons working. It then is just the taskbar that doesn't work. Nothing is more frustrating then a system that works half of the time. If it doesn't work at all, users will just trow in the towel.
Something I also did in the win95 times was replace the blue of BSOD with other colours and then just wait for the 'Yellow Screen Of Death', told them I had something extremely strange. Took them some 3 hours of checking each and every part of the machine, before I told them what I had done. Yes, they thought it was funny.:-)
I use a 'trow away address' that can be spammed all they want. I use it to subscribe to sites and then I just look what the link is to activate it and sometimes also use it to re-send something. houghi.spam@gmail.com is what I use.
Some sites demand a new email address, as the old one must start paying. For those I make a new alias on my domain and as soon as I get the info, remove the alias again.
I did use the website.com@example.org and I noticed that it was way too much work to keep track of what to keep and what to delete, so I opted for what I do above.
I still get about 5 spam mails per day and this most likely because some other people have clicked on 'send this to a friend' button. Whenever I see such a button, I send it to my spam gmail and then copy the URL and send THAT to my friends.
So it is not always up to you to give out your email address.
If they calculate what the average user uses, then 50% of the users would need to pay extra or get capped. Please don't give them any ideas.
I think what is even more important is that they calculate the REAL costs (plus a normal reasonable profit) for their bandwidth. As I see it now, it is just a nice way for them to generate extra income for something they don't pay for themselves.
I suppose I could potentially get DSL, but that is so much slower than cable it almost doesn't count as competition in the broadband market,
I live in Belgium and have ADSL2+. I had standard ADSL and the speed difference is not that much. I changed just because the new provider gave me unlimited traffic. The old provider did not, although it never charged extra.
The reason I do not go to cable is because they do cap the connection and then you go to 128k instead of their full speed, or you pay a LOT. So even though my speed is slower, I have much more data per month and for surfing for me the speed is enough.
What Firefox could do is add the most used extensions in by default. That way tech savy people can still do whatever they like, while people who do not know how to get extentions, still will be able to have the functionality.
Best of both worlds. And if bandwith download is an issue for you, then perhaps you should not download Firefox in the first place.
Just read the bits out one by one. That way you can pass it on to your children and children's children once you know it by heart. In 25 years you then just enter the data into whatever is available by then.
Turn it into a religion if it needs to survive more then average time. It might cost several million lives in the future, but your data will still be available.
Or so you would think, but they probably monitoring traffic to/. as well, so now they have his IP. Probably he is now at work, but with his login, they will be able to link it to the times he logged in at home.
Then some more cross referencing and he is on his way to Gitmo.
I also thought it strange that people went on talking many years ago how this was a security risk AND how it could be exploited without anybody knowing and now say that he is surprised that nobody said anything or did anything about it.
I bet he was not allowed to talk about it and the only thing the ??? saw was "You can abuse it without anybody finding out"
As if you say to a kid how to get the candy and that nobody will ever find out if they take any candy or not.
I wonder how many other people know about this next to governements.
One parent at home, why not? It sure would solve a lot of employment problems.
Now we need to outsource the kids (daycare) and other things. All because we need a second or third car and several TV's and all those other things that the neighbors have. And yes, I am guilty as well.
If you do it that way, you are indeed an idiot. If however you happen to ask whether people are happy with what they have or have mails that say otherwise, then you can use that. If you know that the customer has no clue (although some might) then don't go there.
Possible you can have a track record of bugs reported by customers. It does not even have to be bugs. It could be that they were unhappy that they needed to wait for an update. It all depends on what needs to be improved. Does the badly written code cause crashes and customer frustration and people not buying the product or is it that one coder uses 3 spaces as standard indent and the other 4 and that makes it 'look ugly'. Or is it just that they only hear in the last minute that a change needs to be done and that thus not so much the coding is a problem, but the chain of command and they should be put in the loop instead of outside it.
What you need to do is use what you have available. If you have relevant customer information available, use it. It is whom they want to get money from and that is whom they will be listening to. The main point is to understand that customers can be a great leverage tool to get things done.
Almost every manager gets a woody when they hear 'customer satisfaction will increase' without you needing them to tell how much it will cost or gain.
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I am glad that you think I am a native English speaker and thus should know this. Thanks for the compliment. I hope I make the same mistake when you pluralize in my language.
openSUSE is also a community distro where Novell is part of that community (as well as the sponsor).
I run downloads all the time. That is until I have downloaded my distro. Then I start uploading. On average my upload is about 5-10 times my download
So how much of a dent would those people who abuse the system actually do when looking at all those that don't download all that much?
The UK has the most camera's per capita, I think. Are there any numbers available on how much crime has decreased in those areas where the camera's are? Also how much have they incread in surrounding areas where they are not.
Next what is the cost to keep them running and what was the value of goods being stolen.
Also it would be interesting to see if people feel safer because there are camera's to watch over them or if they feel unsafer to have camera's watch over them.
I can imagine that the cost is much higher and that theft has just moved and people feel less safe while it costs much more even when compared to what is stolen. So all in all good for the few companies in those areas, but bad for the community as a whole.
Only real figures will tell.
In Belgium a standard is around 20GB-30GB per month and that only because they have seriously increased it. I can get web hosting where I get more data transfer for much less and those need to rent the traffic from elsewhere.
The ONLY thing I am paying for is bandwidth and email. I pay separately for the phone line that carries the ADSL, so it isn't the last mile that makes them so expensive. It is because they can.
Luckily I am with a smaller provider who has no limits for just a bit more then those who DO have limits.
I know people who stick with the limits, even if that means slow connections for most of the month (I am talking 3 weeks slow) and still do not want to switch to one that might be a bit slower, but give you a connection all of the month at the same good speed.
Is this not something that is done by default in the USofA?
In Belgium this is very standard practice. Especially for fixed amounts, like your provider or electricity. It is also done with varable bills, like your credit card. In the Netherlands, you can even give somebody an allowed one time to do this for purchases over the phone. Something that is not possible i Belgium.
Stopping this is done almost immidiate and I yet have to hear about big problems. Smaller problems exist, but those get payed back almost immidiatly. Usualay you pay about 1EUR less if you use it. The reason it is cheaper is because it is also cheaper for the company. One of the high costs of a company is to get money from people who pay too late or not at all, even though they have a signed contract to do so.
The company needs to send two reminders and then aquire a billcollector. And all of this just because the person forgot to pay. People who are unwilling to pay won't be using this anyway, so it is so people don't get charged for late payment, while the company has less work looking for those 25EUR you need to pay each month for your internet.
I am happily using it for many things where I would be willing to pay monthly anyway and the moment I want it to stop, I do so online and the automatic transfer is stopped. So they not so much take what they want (exept for the credit card company) they get what I give them.
The credit card company also can not withdraw more then is on my account and in Belgium everybody has two accounts. One davings and one to use with others.
I believe this already exists: public domain.
Well, I think you must vote republican.
One group of people worldwide: Politicians.
Your sig is extremely appropriate to your posting.
I would leave the icons working. It then is just the taskbar that doesn't work. Nothing is more frustrating then a system that works half of the time. If it doesn't work at all, users will just trow in the towel.
Something I also did in the win95 times was replace the blue of BSOD with other colours and then just wait for the 'Yellow Screen Of Death', told them I had something extremely strange. Took them some 3 hours of checking each and every part of the machine, before I told them what I had done. Yes, they thought it was funny. :-)
I use a 'trow away address' that can be spammed all they want. I use it to subscribe to sites and then I just look what the link is to activate it and sometimes also use it to re-send something. houghi.spam@gmail.com is what I use.
Some sites demand a new email address, as the old one must start paying. For those I make a new alias on my domain and as soon as I get the info, remove the alias again.
I did use the website.com@example.org and I noticed that it was way too much work to keep track of what to keep and what to delete, so I opted for what I do above.
I still get about 5 spam mails per day and this most likely because some other people have clicked on 'send this to a friend' button. Whenever I see such a button, I send it to my spam gmail and then copy the URL and send THAT to my friends.
So it is not always up to you to give out your email address.
If they calculate what the average user uses, then 50% of the users would need to pay extra or get capped. Please don't give them any ideas.
I think what is even more important is that they calculate the REAL costs (plus a normal reasonable profit) for their bandwidth. As I see it now, it is just a nice way for them to generate extra income for something they don't pay for themselves.
I have that in UPLOAD. 24/7 Linux distro torrents.
I live in Belgium and have ADSL2+. I had standard ADSL and the speed difference is not that much. I changed just because the new provider gave me unlimited traffic. The old provider did not, although it never charged extra.
The reason I do not go to cable is because they do cap the connection and then you go to 128k instead of their full speed, or you pay a LOT. So even though my speed is slower, I have much more data per month and for surfing for me the speed is enough.
What Firefox could do is add the most used extensions in by default. That way tech savy people can still do whatever they like, while people who do not know how to get extentions, still will be able to have the functionality.
Best of both worlds. And if bandwith download is an issue for you, then perhaps you should not download Firefox in the first place.
Then use the same programs, settings and the same distro. This is what they did at Linkat
Some more info on it on this video
Just read the bits out one by one. That way you can pass it on to your children and children's children once you know it by heart. In 25 years you then just enter the data into whatever is available by then.
Turn it into a religion if it needs to survive more then average time. It might cost several million lives in the future, but your data will still be available.
Or so you would think, but they probably monitoring traffic to /. as well, so now they have his IP. Probably he is now at work, but with his login, they will be able to link it to the times he logged in at home.
Then some more cross referencing and he is on his way to Gitmo.
I also thought it strange that people went on talking many years ago how this was a security risk AND how it could be exploited without anybody knowing and now say that he is surprised that nobody said anything or did anything about it.
I bet he was not allowed to talk about it and the only thing the ??? saw was "You can abuse it without anybody finding out"
As if you say to a kid how to get the candy and that nobody will ever find out if they take any candy or not.
I wonder how many other people know about this next to governements.
Security is all of it together and it is as strong as the weakest link. To me as a user, I do not care what or who you want to blame.
One parent at home, why not? It sure would solve a lot of employment problems.
Now we need to outsource the kids (daycare) and other things. All because we need a second or third car and several TV's and all those other things that the neighbors have. And yes, I am guilty as well.
/. specificaly told me to use a password that I can afford to miss. However a https would be nice. Next you know everybody is using ID #1
If you do it that way, you are indeed an idiot. If however you happen to ask whether people are happy with what they have or have mails that say otherwise, then you can use that. If you know that the customer has no clue (although some might) then don't go there.
Possible you can have a track record of bugs reported by customers. It does not even have to be bugs. It could be that they were unhappy that they needed to wait for an update. It all depends on what needs to be improved. Does the badly written code cause crashes and customer frustration and people not buying the product or is it that one coder uses 3 spaces as standard indent and the other 4 and that makes it 'look ugly'. Or is it just that they only hear in the last minute that a change needs to be done and that thus not so much the coding is a problem, but the chain of command and they should be put in the loop instead of outside it.
What you need to do is use what you have available. If you have relevant customer information available, use it. It is whom they want to get money from and that is whom they will be listening to. The main point is to understand that customers can be a great leverage tool to get things done.
Almost every manager gets a woody when they hear 'customer satisfaction will increase' without you needing them to tell how much it will cost or gain.