It's not only in Nokia phones, most of the major european mobile phone players (those being: Sony/Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens and Alcatel) have this function. It's called T9, it's (like I said) available in a LOT of phones and it's pretty much a standard right now. Avalible in a couple dozen languages - including my native polish.
I absolutely detest it, and it is switched off on my phone. On the other hand, my friend's wife uses it and he claims she's a speed demon when it comes to SMSes...
In the land of the great lawsuit, which is America at the turn of the millenium, I'd be more than happy to have Ford leak my info. In a flash I'd have a family member sell of my identity to someone (or have a good friend assume my identity) and rock my credit record for all it's worth.
Then I'd just sue Ford for lossing my info. They've already admited to doing it, so there's pretty much no burden of proof. Corporate neglegence should be pretty easy to prove.
That sound you hear is lawyers sharpening their claws.
I can sign up for a new account and within hours, I'm receiving spam. Dang, now that's some added value, not to mention adding to the need for more storage.
That's what I always thought about Hotmail until I signed up and got... Zero (0) pieces of spam (sans the M$/MSN shit they send me) over the next 4 weeks.
Exactly, GSM is *great* in Europe. Most of the new (mid level or higher) phones comming out onto the market have GPRS - so telcos charge for traffic (about $1.50 US/MB right now) instead of connect time. I have friends who sit online, chit chatting on IRC and IMs 5 days a week, who pay $10-15 for all that connect time. It's not 801.22b speed (more like 56.7) but still, it's a lot better than paying per minute.
I think it's UTMS (next-gen protocol - post GSM/DCS) that will start getting speeds of over 500kbps from a standard phone.
I can't agree, I really like the current (E39, E46, etc) makes and the stuff that's on the horizon is really nice as well, especially the new six-series and 5-series. It's definately superior (design wise) to anything comming out of Detroit, and pretty much rocks the new offerings from Mercedes-Benz (S and SLK)
Mozilla/NS6.2+ also has this: Keywords for your bookmarks, including keywords that take a parameter. I use 'g whatever i'm looking for on google' and 'ng whatever i'm looking for on google groups' or 'imdb star wars' etc etc all the time.
I've ordered a lot of stuff to Poland (not in the EU but in Europe for all the Americans out there [I'm kidding... sorta]) from the US and UK - books, clothes, shoes, car parts (tuning), software, music, movies (both DVDs and VHS). Stuff worth thousands of dollars.
The only thing I've ever been taxed on a was a 6 GBP cable I ordered from Matrox in the UK.
In Europe there's quite a large cottage industry that deals in breaking phones. All the major players on in on it: warez groups, organized crime. You can actually get it removed in a couple dozen places here in Warsaw.
You can almost always unlock your phone in a couple minutes for about $10. There are sometimes problems with the newest phones, newest software. But, usually, it's not a problem.
Check out Google or ask electronics/telephone freaks in your local area. It will probably void your warranty though, so beware.
This reminds me... Poland's largest cellphone operator, Era, offered the Nokia 8210 for a symbolic 1zl ($0.25) to it's business customers who'd sign a 2 year contract. The phone was selling for 500-600zl with a 2 year contract so it was quite a deal. The phones didn't weren't simlocked, everyone I talked to assumed it was Era's way of showing appreciation to their business customers.
Later it turned out that phones were supposed to have been simlocked and somebody just screwed up. Six people - a chunk of a whole division at Era - lost their jobs.
I know for a fact (it's happened a few times) that fibreoptic cable will get stolen because thieves don't know any better. There's not actually that much money in cables, so the guys stealing them aren't really sophisticated.
Sitting behind our screens, we sometimes forget that the entire network is actually a physical entity. We remind ourselves of it when a backhoe rips through our ISP's OC3, or when we're out of cable and can't connect our network card to our router or modem.
Well, at least I do.
Anyway, here in Poland there's a problem with people stealing cable. Not cable-tv, but telecommunication cables. Whole neighborhoods here in Warsaw have been cut off from telephony because of stolen inter-exchange cable. Railroad lights have been known to fail because of stolen equipment (this happens way too often). It's twice as bad in Russia, trust me.
Actually, at times, it seems like everything that isn't screwed or welded down in this country (this region) will get stolen. Ah... sucks pretty bad.
? I'd just been renaming my.bmp's to.jpg - you mean I actually have to "compress" them to a.jpg to gain any benefit?
You laugh, but I do have a couple pictures I've gotten of people over the years (that would be 14 years at the end of this summer) that are small (res wise).JPGs, about 400-600kb each. They are, of course, 'uncompressed JPGs', meaning BMPs and TIFFs renamed to.JPG. I also have a couple of images -- real JPGs this time -- about 3000x2000 (the size of the scanner at 150DPI) where the photo itself is about 400x300px somewhere in the middle of that.
The rest is white.
So, yeah, this article could help some people out... but still:
a cop friend of mine had his Crown Vic over 130MPH in a pursuit. 4.6l with EFI can move.
What? I don't want to be a troll here, but just last summer me and a friend were doing 150MPH in a basic, unmodified 2.5V6 '94 Opel Omega. That's a V6, 170bhp engine, nothing spectacualar (considering we spent some time the year before putting a BMW M3 E30 tunned to 320bhp through its paces.)
I'm reading about all these American cars, with huge (5-7l) engines and I don't really see any startling numbers. I know that the M-Series cars from BMW are toned down to be street legal in the US, and it seems that none of the other manufacturers are doing anything special. What's the deal? Has America lost its prowess?
For the purposes of image quality, this should be indistinguisable from a 'studio' DVD (minus the commentary track, etc.).
Which is, of course, complete and utter bullshit.
You can not just sync frames - if only because NTSC's 30fps and PAL's 25fps are not film's 24fps. Transfering film to either of these formats is an art upon itself.
A high quality DV is nowhere near the quality of a half-descent telesync setup. DV CCD's (at least what they have right now) is not up to snuff, especially insofar as color reproduction goes. If it wasn't, and the quality was so high, why bother shooting on film at all?
The image quality may be indistinguishable in a 1/4sized window on a cheap monitor, but you're not fooling anyone.
Besides, transfering film to a digital format, either by telesync or film scanner, is a costly process - both time and equipment wise. Not to mention the post-transfer work done on DVD material. It's much, much easier to steal a preview DVD or rip a laserdisc than to create a DVD-quality DVD yourself.
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TV/radio licenses are actually quite popular all over europe. I know for a fact that they're in place in the UK as well and Poland.
Actually, this pisses me off. Polish state-run television is really shitty, I rarely watch it at all. It's heavily commercial, low quality programming that I just don't watch. Not only is it an unfair (non-use) tax but I have real problems with the fact that I have to support a commercial entity. A commercial, government subsidizied entity that competes for commercial time with private commercial tv stations, which cuts into their budgets.
The one european country that has 'good' laws concerning TV licenses is Germany, I belive that they use the money to pay private SAT channels to not scramble their programs, thus letting people all over europe watch German-language programming.
FujiFilm cameras don't really kill non-Fuji batteries as they kill everything but 1600mA Ni-MH batteries, 1800mA dealies are even better. Anything you can get 'on the street' -- alkalines or the like, are pretty much only for emergency use.
Like actually bothering to translate your contact messages into various non-English languages. After all, when was the last time You, as a sysadmin, responded to an informative message to postmaster@your.org that was written in an Asian language??
The international language of snail mail is French. That's why air mail is par avion. It's like that all around the world and no one really complains. If the admin knows enough to postmaster@ he knows it should be in english. English is *the* offical language of email. Just look at the headers, I don't see a 'Od: instead of 'From:' or 'Temat:' instead of 'Subject:'.
Admins speak english, you can't really be a good admin if you can't communicate with your computer and 90% of software - even software created in non english speaking nations - is in english.
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The caller does pay for the call... at least on land lines in the US.
I still cannot, for the hell of me, figure out why Americans are forced to pay for cell calls they pick up. It's like paying to get mail.
It's not only in Nokia phones, most of the major european mobile phone players (those being: Sony/Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens and Alcatel) have this function. It's called T9, it's (like I said) available in a LOT of phones and it's pretty much a standard right now. Avalible in a couple dozen languages - including my native polish.
I absolutely detest it, and it is switched off on my phone. On the other hand, my friend's wife uses it and he claims she's a speed demon when it comes to SMSes...
In the land of the great lawsuit, which is America at the turn of the millenium, I'd be more than happy to have Ford leak my info. In a flash I'd have a family member sell of my identity to someone (or have a good friend assume my identity) and rock my credit record for all it's worth.
Then I'd just sue Ford for lossing my info. They've already admited to doing it, so there's pretty much no burden of proof. Corporate neglegence should be pretty easy to prove.
That sound you hear is lawyers sharpening their claws.
I can sign up for a new account and within hours, I'm receiving spam. Dang, now that's some added value, not to mention adding to the need for more storage.
That's what I always thought about Hotmail until I signed up and got... Zero (0) pieces of spam (sans the M$/MSN shit they send me) over the next 4 weeks.
Exactly, GSM is *great* in Europe. Most of the new (mid level or higher) phones comming out onto the market have GPRS - so telcos charge for traffic (about $1.50 US/MB right now) instead of connect time. I have friends who sit online, chit chatting on IRC and IMs 5 days a week, who pay $10-15 for all that connect time. It's not 801.22b speed (more like 56.7) but still, it's a lot better than paying per minute.
I think it's UTMS (next-gen protocol - post GSM/DCS) that will start getting speeds of over 500kbps from a standard phone.
I can't agree, I really like the current (E39, E46, etc) makes and the stuff that's on the horizon is really nice as well, especially the new six-series and 5-series. It's definately superior (design wise) to anything comming out of Detroit, and pretty much rocks the new offerings from Mercedes-Benz (S and SLK)
Mozilla/NS6.2+ also has this: Keywords for your bookmarks, including keywords that take a parameter. I use 'g whatever i'm looking for on google' and 'ng whatever i'm looking for on google groups' or 'imdb star wars' etc etc all the time.
I found a great write up of it here.
I've ordered a lot of stuff to Poland (not in the EU but in Europe for all the Americans out there [I'm kidding... sorta]) from the US and UK - books, clothes, shoes, car parts (tuning), software, music, movies (both DVDs and VHS). Stuff worth thousands of dollars.
The only thing I've ever been taxed on a was a 6 GBP cable I ordered from Matrox in the UK.
In Europe there's quite a large cottage industry that deals in breaking phones. All the major players on in on it: warez groups, organized crime. You can actually get it removed in a couple dozen places here in Warsaw.
You can almost always unlock your phone in a couple minutes for about $10. There are sometimes problems with the newest phones, newest software. But, usually, it's not a problem.
Check out Google or ask electronics/telephone freaks in your local area. It will probably void your warranty though, so beware.
This reminds me... Poland's largest cellphone operator, Era, offered the Nokia 8210 for a symbolic 1zl ($0.25) to it's business customers who'd sign a 2 year contract. The phone was selling for 500-600zl with a 2 year contract so it was quite a deal. The phones didn't weren't simlocked, everyone I talked to assumed it was Era's way of showing appreciation to their business customers.
Later it turned out that phones were supposed to have been simlocked and somebody just screwed up. Six people - a chunk of a whole division at Era - lost their jobs.
I thought it was:
1st world: Europe
2nd world: USA/Canada
3rd world: everything else.
At least originaly.
A klacz? A female horse?
I don't get it.
Yeah, I've heard that before.
I know for a fact (it's happened a few times) that fibreoptic cable will get stolen because thieves don't know any better. There's not actually that much money in cables, so the guys stealing them aren't really sophisticated.
Sitting behind our screens, we sometimes forget that the entire network is actually a physical entity. We remind ourselves of it when a backhoe rips through our ISP's OC3, or when we're out of cable and can't connect our network card to our router or modem.
Well, at least I do.
Anyway, here in Poland there's a problem with people stealing cable. Not cable-tv, but telecommunication cables. Whole neighborhoods here in Warsaw have been cut off from telephony because of stolen inter-exchange cable. Railroad lights have been known to fail because of stolen equipment (this happens way too often). It's twice as bad in Russia, trust me.
Actually, at times, it seems like everything that isn't screwed or welded down in this country (this region) will get stolen. Ah... sucks pretty bad.
? I'd just been renaming my .bmp's to .jpg - you mean I actually have to "compress" them to a .jpg to gain any benefit?
.JPGs, about 400-600kb each. They are, of course, 'uncompressed JPGs', meaning BMPs and TIFFs renamed to .JPG. I also have a couple of images -- real JPGs this time -- about 3000x2000 (the size of the scanner at 150DPI) where the photo itself is about 400x300px somewhere in the middle of that.
You laugh, but I do have a couple pictures I've gotten of people over the years (that would be 14 years at the end of this summer) that are small (res wise)
The rest is white.
So, yeah, this article could help some people out... but still:
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Here in Poland it's 15 for 2 hours of computer work.
Of course, that's in you're not a contract employee like 80% of the people working in the CS industry are.
So basically they need to whip up some way of controlling IRC as well.
To read *any* message on a typical IRC network you need access to this many servers:
One.
The way IRC is constructed each message goes to every server, so it's a no-brainer.
a cop friend of mine had his Crown Vic over 130MPH in a pursuit. 4.6l with EFI can move.
What? I don't want to be a troll here, but just last summer me and a friend were doing 150MPH in a basic, unmodified 2.5V6 '94 Opel Omega. That's a V6, 170bhp engine, nothing spectacualar (considering we spent some time the year before putting a BMW M3 E30 tunned to 320bhp through its paces.)
I'm reading about all these American cars, with huge (5-7l) engines and I don't really see any startling numbers. I know that the M-Series cars from BMW are toned down to be street legal in the US, and it seems that none of the other manufacturers are doing anything special. What's the deal? Has America lost its prowess?
> Sucks. But history's gonna repeat itself. Until it ends.
As history repreats itself, Microsoft will fall under it's own weight long before history ends.
> GTK interface to the popular console application
'I know a really original piece of software that does not use existing ideas.'
An interface - or even a reimplementation - of a program can hardly be said to not use existing ideas.
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For the purposes of image quality, this should be indistinguisable from a 'studio' DVD (minus the commentary track, etc.).
Which is, of course, complete and utter bullshit.
You can not just sync frames - if only because NTSC's 30fps and PAL's 25fps are not film's 24fps. Transfering film to either of these formats is an art upon itself.
A high quality DV is nowhere near the quality of a half-descent telesync setup. DV CCD's (at least what they have right now) is not up to snuff, especially insofar as color reproduction goes. If it wasn't, and the quality was so high, why bother shooting on film at all?
The image quality may be indistinguishable in a 1/4sized window on a cheap monitor, but you're not fooling anyone.
Besides, transfering film to a digital format, either by telesync or film scanner, is a costly process - both time and equipment wise. Not to mention the post-transfer work done on DVD material. It's much, much easier to steal a preview DVD or rip a laserdisc than to create a DVD-quality DVD yourself.
TV/radio licenses are actually quite popular all over europe. I know for a fact that they're in place in the UK as well and Poland.
Actually, this pisses me off. Polish state-run television is really shitty, I rarely watch it at all. It's heavily commercial, low quality programming that I just don't watch. Not only is it an unfair (non-use) tax but I have real problems with the fact that I have to support a commercial entity. A commercial, government subsidizied entity that competes for commercial time with private commercial tv stations, which cuts into their budgets.
The one european country that has 'good' laws concerning TV licenses is Germany, I belive that they use the money to pay private SAT channels to not scramble their programs, thus letting people all over europe watch German-language programming.
What the hell does this have to do with Poland, other than the second line?
jedrek
FujiFilm cameras don't really kill non-Fuji batteries as they kill everything but 1600mA Ni-MH batteries, 1800mA dealies are even better. Anything you can get 'on the street' -- alkalines or the like, are pretty much only for emergency use.
Like actually bothering to translate your contact messages into various non-English languages. After all, when was the last time You, as a sysadmin, responded to an informative message to postmaster@your.org that was written in an Asian language??
The international language of snail mail is French. That's why air mail is par avion. It's like that all around the world and no one really complains. If the admin knows enough to postmaster@ he knows it should be in english. English is *the* offical language of email. Just look at the headers, I don't see a 'Od: instead of 'From:' or 'Temat:' instead of 'Subject:'.
Admins speak english, you can't really be a good admin if you can't communicate with your computer and 90% of software - even software created in non english speaking nations - is in english.
jedrek
Well... we had a 6% click-thru rate on our test run of 10.000 which cost us a whoping $110. I don't think that's too bad.