My first ever domain - on a fairly expensive package for what I was using (£25/month and I was only using it for email).
I cancelled my hosting with them, and asked for a domain transfer - only for it to turn out that they had registered my domain with their details.
Nominet were helpless as they effectively owned the domain.
They continued to bill me for 5-6 months after cancelling, which I have yet to be refunded.
To finally take the biscuit, I've had a letter from Nominet offering the domain, but only after paying the outstanding $160 of charges owed on it by Host Europe.
So, take that as a word of caution: stay clear from Hosts Europe.
I'd suggest oneandone.co.uk if you're based in the UK, their service is very good, they even bend over backwards to allow you to move your domain from them. Cheap too.
I really don't understand this argument:
Basically, we should expend an enormous amount of resources on sticking a few people on different planets in our solar system.
This will obviously require an enormous amount of resources..
Wouldn't that resource be better spent, say, finding a renewable energy source that doesn't kill life here? Oh, and on sorting out the Third World countries?
These space-faring ideas are great romance, but in reality we're not ready.
Our time for expansion across space will be after we've sorted out the problems on our planet.
Or doesn't copyright apply to scanned documents and PDFs?
It's arguable, as there's as much creative expression there than there is in Britney's latest coaster....
I assumed it was based on the emergency response system present in the UK:
http://www.fire.org.uk/advice/999history.htm
To digress a bit, surely our system is prior art to the US Patent of pretty much teh same system?
http://www.911dispatch.com/911_file/history/sel_ro ute_patent.gif;)
If Vontage and the 911 people worked together, surely they could link some location-specific information (i.e. an address) into the VOIP software? It would be set up when the user first sets their phone/software up.
Then their calls could be routed to the correct service centre automatically?
Wouldn't guess the cost would be huge either.
For existing users there should also be a central US wide support centre that takes non-locational calls, and relies on people giving their location to an operator (or dialling their ZIP code in?).
For cell phones it should be simple to locate someone to their nearest cell, which would give their location to a few hundred feet - plenty close enough for the emergency services to find them.
Little Britain is an amazing parody of some British stereotypes. It is very funny if you understand the context it's parodying.
Sadly, most of the jokes will go right over the head of anyone who wasn't brought up here. Shame really, as it is very good.
The thing is, Microsoft might suddenly find out that they have to licence a lot more code from SCO, which would bankroll SCO's legal case..
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Why do I use webmail:
a) I can access it anywhere. b) It's free. c) It doesn't change when I change ISP. d) It's backed-up properly by a commercial vendor, which is better than I can offer myself. e) Spam filtering is generally great. f) POP3 boxes are usually 30mb, which will fill in a week. Gmail is 1gig, that'll fill in a year.
Personally, I use addresses at my own domain, and just foward the whole lot to gmail. Works a treat, and if gmail fails I'll just forward to my POP3 box again..
Unless AMD issue new stock (or sells its own stock, which is essentially the same thing), buying it would only transfer funds to the stock owners, NOT to AMD.
Like any format, digital mediums will decay, and can be lost / broken / burnt.
So I follow a backup routine for data that is important to me (my photos):
1. "Live" copy on PC. 2. Continual backup to iRiver (portable). 3. Backup to Xbox hard drive every month or so. 4. Occasinal archive to DVD.
I'm covered for accidental deletion by 3/4, and 1/2 give me redundancy for hard drive failures and a level of risk I'm willing to accept if there is a fire (my iRiver lives in my trousers, and I'd take them out if the house was burning down).
Might add that I keep a copy on my girlfriends PC which is a long way away, which gives the final piece of mind.
I'd also consider archiving really important data to gmail or something..
H430 does not. Got it in my hand now - it has USB1.1, USB2.0, DC on the bottom, standard line-in and line-out + headphones on the top, and a connection for the aerial / remote.
Do MP3 or Ogg support Pro Logic 2 even?
I can't tell any difference from the output quailty of my Ogg files from my PC via either Optical or standard jack, but it's clear on DVDs/CDs. I'm damn picky about these things too...
England. Which is sorta obvious, what with my username and all;-)
It not being out in the US explains the complete lack of a support site in English etc.
(Explaination for the thick skulled - Warwick is a famous English town - my home town - which has a big castle in the middle of it. Normally full of Yanks and Japs during the summer)
The don't have optical out.
Not too sure what the benefit is of having it, the performance bottleneck is going to be the compressed audio not the connection from the player..
Had mine for a couple of months now?
Well, HP340.
It's an excellent little device - plays pretty much everything I can throw at it, and the battery lasts for ages. About 15hrs with the default settings (i.e. no attempt at conserving power).
The only downside is the shipped headphones aren't fantastic, but they're better than the headphones in the iPod.
The ability to mount USB storage devices is also fantastic - when you're on holiday and have filled your 256mb CF card with pics, just copy the whole schbang to your iRiver and you can take another 256mb of snaps. Can't see anyone filling 40gig of space on that:-)
"Joe Bloggs" only use around 6k/sec on their xDSL connection, so overall an average line will see an 15-20% increase in usage.
Though around the time the network is rolled out Video On Demand may be mass market, which would reduce that a lot - but BT do mention videoconferencing in addition to vanilla calls...
It's worth pointing out that this may not be a done deal.
In the UK the telecoms industry has until recently been regulated by an organisation called Oftel. They have recently been replaced by a much broader regulator called Ofcom (http://www.ofcom.org.uk/).
Their job is to try and ensure that the communications industry as a whole remains competitive. Which generally involves keeping BT on a short leash.
This is the first major announcement from BT since Ofcom came into existence, so they may want attempt to use this as an opportunity to stamp their authority on BT. Though if Oftel is anything to go by they'll probably be BT's lapdogs..
The backend is going to be IP based you fool.
So we'll still have telephone numbers etc, but BT will route all of the call data via IP.
So, basically, they'll reduce the already tiny operating costs even more, whilst attempting to bump up the cost of xDSL even further.
They'll probably argue along the lines of "Mr X uses much more bandwidth now so we have to charge more". The excess bandwidth being Mr X's telephone calls, which he is already paying for.
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Mod parent up, best joke on /. today by a mile :)
It was down after only 1 comment :-/
My first ever domain - on a fairly expensive package for what I was using (£25/month and I was only using it for email).
I cancelled my hosting with them, and asked for a domain transfer - only for it to turn out that they had registered my domain with their details.
Nominet were helpless as they effectively owned the domain.
They continued to bill me for 5-6 months after cancelling, which I have yet to be refunded.
To finally take the biscuit, I've had a letter from Nominet offering the domain, but only after paying the outstanding $160 of charges owed on it by Host Europe.
So, take that as a word of caution: stay clear from Hosts Europe.
I'd suggest oneandone.co.uk if you're based in the UK, their service is very good, they even bend over backwards to allow you to move your domain from them. Cheap too.
I really don't understand this argument: Basically, we should expend an enormous amount of resources on sticking a few people on different planets in our solar system. This will obviously require an enormous amount of resources.. Wouldn't that resource be better spent, say, finding a renewable energy source that doesn't kill life here? Oh, and on sorting out the Third World countries? These space-faring ideas are great romance, but in reality we're not ready. Our time for expansion across space will be after we've sorted out the problems on our planet.
League == BEST APRIL FOOLS JOKE EVER.
;)
Shame so many people were too dense to get it.
>Continuing with this logic, we should outlaw guns Finally a good idea.
Thank goodness Rockstar (North) are British (more specifically Scottish). Take Two who own Rockstar (North) are American though, based in NYC.
Or doesn't copyright apply to scanned documents and PDFs? It's arguable, as there's as much creative expression there than there is in Britney's latest coaster....
I assumed it was based on the emergency response system present in the UK: http://www.fire.org.uk/advice/999history.htm To digress a bit, surely our system is prior art to the US Patent of pretty much teh same system? http://www.911dispatch.com/911_file/history/sel_ro ute_patent.gif ;)
If Vontage and the 911 people worked together, surely they could link some location-specific information (i.e. an address) into the VOIP software? It would be set up when the user first sets their phone/software up.
Then their calls could be routed to the correct service centre automatically?
Wouldn't guess the cost would be huge either.
For existing users there should also be a central US wide support centre that takes non-locational calls, and relies on people giving their location to an operator (or dialling their ZIP code in?).
For cell phones it should be simple to locate someone to their nearest cell, which would give their location to a few hundred feet - plenty close enough for the emergency services to find them.
Little Britain is an amazing parody of some British stereotypes. It is very funny if you understand the context it's parodying. Sadly, most of the jokes will go right over the head of anyone who wasn't brought up here. Shame really, as it is very good.
Shh, you'll give the RIAA ideas ;)
The thing is, Microsoft might suddenly find out that they have to licence a lot more code from SCO, which would bankroll SCO's legal case..
Why do I use webmail:
a) I can access it anywhere.
b) It's free.
c) It doesn't change when I change ISP.
d) It's backed-up properly by a commercial vendor, which is better than I can offer myself.
e) Spam filtering is generally great.
f) POP3 boxes are usually 30mb, which will fill in a week. Gmail is 1gig, that'll fill in a year.
Personally, I use addresses at my own domain, and just foward the whole lot to gmail. Works a treat, and if gmail fails I'll just forward to my POP3 box again..
Unless AMD issue new stock (or sells its own stock, which is essentially the same thing), buying it would only transfer funds to the stock owners, NOT to AMD.
Like any format, digital mediums will decay, and can be lost / broken / burnt.
:
So I follow a backup routine for data that is important to me (my photos)
1. "Live" copy on PC.
2. Continual backup to iRiver (portable).
3. Backup to Xbox hard drive every month or so.
4. Occasinal archive to DVD.
I'm covered for accidental deletion by 3/4, and 1/2 give me redundancy for hard drive failures and a level of risk I'm willing to accept if there is a fire (my iRiver lives in my trousers, and I'd take them out if the house was burning down).
Might add that I keep a copy on my girlfriends PC which is a long way away, which gives the final piece of mind.
I'd also consider archiving really important data to gmail or something..
NHS IT projects have a potted history: they almost always fail whilst wasting a large amount of the NHS budget.
:-/
I don't see this one being any different
Be thankful. Our Doctors in the UK are still using MS-DOS 6.22 and Word Perfect.
H430 does not. Got it in my hand now - it has USB1.1, USB2.0, DC on the bottom, standard line-in and line-out + headphones on the top, and a connection for the aerial / remote. Do MP3 or Ogg support Pro Logic 2 even? I can't tell any difference from the output quailty of my Ogg files from my PC via either Optical or standard jack, but it's clear on DVDs/CDs. I'm damn picky about these things too...
England. Which is sorta obvious, what with my username and all ;-)
It not being out in the US explains the complete lack of a support site in English etc.
(Explaination for the thick skulled - Warwick is a famous English town - my home town - which has a big castle in the middle of it. Normally full of Yanks and Japs during the summer)
The don't have optical out. Not too sure what the benefit is of having it, the performance bottleneck is going to be the compressed audio not the connection from the player..
Had mine for a couple of months now? Well, HP340. It's an excellent little device - plays pretty much everything I can throw at it, and the battery lasts for ages. About 15hrs with the default settings (i.e. no attempt at conserving power). The only downside is the shipped headphones aren't fantastic, but they're better than the headphones in the iPod. The ability to mount USB storage devices is also fantastic - when you're on holiday and have filled your 256mb CF card with pics, just copy the whole schbang to your iRiver and you can take another 256mb of snaps. Can't see anyone filling 40gig of space on that :-)
"Joe Bloggs" only use around 6k/sec on their xDSL connection, so overall an average line will see an 15-20% increase in usage.
Though around the time the network is rolled out Video On Demand may be mass market, which would reduce that a lot - but BT do mention videoconferencing in addition to vanilla calls...
It's worth pointing out that this may not be a done deal.
In the UK the telecoms industry has until recently been regulated by an organisation called Oftel. They have recently been replaced by a much broader regulator called Ofcom (http://www.ofcom.org.uk/).
Their job is to try and ensure that the communications industry as a whole remains competitive. Which generally involves keeping BT on a short leash.
This is the first major announcement from BT since Ofcom came into existence, so they may want attempt to use this as an opportunity to stamp their authority on BT. Though if Oftel is anything to go by they'll probably be BT's lapdogs..
The backend is going to be IP based you fool. So we'll still have telephone numbers etc, but BT will route all of the call data via IP. So, basically, they'll reduce the already tiny operating costs even more, whilst attempting to bump up the cost of xDSL even further. They'll probably argue along the lines of "Mr X uses much more bandwidth now so we have to charge more". The excess bandwidth being Mr X's telephone calls, which he is already paying for.