As an initial advice for the sentence, it might make sense and stimulate objectivity of the judicial system, unless objective parts are put into the program of course (risk for media attention, etc). But to be blindly followed it would be so wrong, so wrong...
For frequent callers, the EU might be cheaper, I don't know that much about the US system and are not a frequent caller anyway. My post was written as a prepaid user, so that might indeed change the picture.
As for lifetime of the prepaid shelf-live, in holland there are eternal prepaid plans, your money can stay valid for as long as your phone is still in use. If it's not used (e.g. recieved a call) for a year or so they cut if off of course, but anyway else your money will stay valid. Very nice.
As for buying prepaid SIM cards when in Europe. Recently, I wanted to buy a prepaid phone in Germany and found out that the regulation has changed, about 3 months ago. Before, you only needed a valid pass to get a prepaid phone or card, but now you also have to show the certificate that you got when you registered your residence in germany in the town-hall of your hometown. I don't know what they want to reach by this, but it will make it harder to avoid these huge roaming costs. Not so nice.
These costs are for landline to mobile, and from prepaid mobile to mobile and for prepaid mobile to landline. I don't think there are many ways to lower the landline to mobile costs, as often mobile numbers are not or only in a limited way included in flatrate packages etc. So landline to mobile is almost always very expensive! Even when I use preselect numbers, it won't get under 10 cent per minute. Calling to US landline or mobile via preselect will cost me about 2 cents, without any difference for landline or mobile. That's how I got the impression that tarifs for mobile phones are probably much less than here.
Mobile to mobile is a different story. For people with a contract, within the same provider there are options to pay about 1 cent for calls within the network, or there are certain amount of minutes in your package, just as you have there. Probably, as others pointed out, the mobile phone packages are pretty good, and not as restrictive on your mobile phone as Verizon tends to be (from what I've read here on slashdot). I call about one time per day, on average, so a monthly fee package is not profitable for me. This leaves me no choice than a prepaid, and paying absurd per minute costs. Just as in the guy from the UK responding, I end up texting a lot (about 20 cent per message, ridiculous actually, as there is not much bandwith and priority needed for it compared to speech).
If I go from germany to its neighbor holland, I pay about 1 euro per minute (also if someone calls me). As someone else said (with link) the EU is working on this. Sometimes text messages can also get more expensive outside the country.
Why are all the people lauding the european cell network here? I agree the quality is ok, but the pricing is ridiculous. Calling to a mobile phone can be up to 20 cent or more, say 20 times more than a normal phone call. Also, since there are so many small countries in europe, providers earn a shitload of money on 'roaming' costs, even when the same companies are present in almost all countries by now. It has nothing to do with actual costs anymore, but only with how much they can get away with to ask. The fact that there is 'competition' isn't helping much out here, as they silently make sure not to underbid their competitors too much.
Indeed, doesn't have to be windows's fault. I have a linux-based DSL router, and it is programmed to automatically reboot every 24 hours. To clean up, I guess. I put this time at 4 AM, but I tend to even be online then actually:) I cannot turn the option off, and I had routers from other brands that performed perfectly 24/7 without even this sucky "feature".
But did you see the pictures? They made this with their fathers, so I wonder how much the kid will get to play with it:)
Actually I do wonder how easily programmable this is for a 10-year old, as it apparently can do quite fancy stuff (shoe with leds in them, where the colors of leds that light up depend on the speed with which you walk). I don't know any of the lego sets, so I have really no clue how child-friendly they are. Anyone can give me an update on this?
Yes, I would say so. The most important thing is a check by the password script on how solid it is, before accepting it. The passwords on the GRC site might be useful for wireless networks or something, where you don't need to remember the password in the first place, but are a good example of how to introduce hellish passwords to your users if these were to be considered for actual login passwords.
I guess they took this feature from IM programs, where you can be invisible for certain friends and family members. But guess what, friends and family are not like work relationships (or at least I hope not for y'all!) as at work there are people with higher hierarchy that might actually force you to do something, and you are dependent on that. Of course they turned it off, duh! A simple but sad solution is available, though, let the who-obverses-who function be configureable by the supervisor/manager only.
There might be missing something to that statement. In the wikipedia entry on software development, I find:
The term release candidate refers to a final product, ready to release unless fatal bugs emerge. In this stage, the product features all designed functionalities and no known showstopper class bugs
Notice the terms 'final product' and 'features all designed functionalities'. If those two are not met with, we are still not at RC, but on the way from "beta", probably. Ok, let's say there are no fatal bugs in this RC, then apparently (according to testers) still a lot is missing from it to make it a 'final product'.
Now I wouldn't want to be the head product manager of Vista, but I guess a problem in this complex product will be the fact that they're constantly changing its main features and goals, so it will hardly ever be a final product. If someone should just make hard demands on what it should do, it might actually work out to at least something final.
Indeed, he also failed to mention that the solution he asks for should actually be applied in some critical process for a top-500 company! How did this ever enter ask slashdot!:)
In both the police and the disabled case, the advantage is that you are positioned a bit higher. For policemen to have more overview, and be more easily found, and for disabled it must make a huge difference from sitting in a wheelchair, looking at people's bums all the time:( Really, in a wheelchair you always have to look up to people, it's nice that it can also be done the other way around. Still not at the same level as all other people, but at least you're in more control.
Are you in academics? Then why do you think like a school teacher?
Really, it SHOULD be everyone's own choice how to learn for their exam. Any smart student will be able to figure out for her/himself when it is necessary to follow the class. Or do you want to create a group of people that follow blindly what they are thaught? Then drop out of academics and go into military training. Each and every time I am saddened by seeing obligatory attendance or homework in university classes. Maybe to make more people pass, as that's where the university can show how 'good' it is. Good in being an elementary school!
In science you will of course need the skills to interact with colleagues on subjects, and make your matter clear, but during a university curriculum there will be chances enough to do so, and in some cases you really don't want to. We all had our amount of totally crap lectures, don't fool yourself.
Actually, if it was a renault, it was probably constructed in such a way that least damage was done to both the contents of the probe and the moon (does no-one think of the moon!). Otherwise renault wouldn't have gotten their high NCAP crash ratings (high on pedestrian protection as well, compare that with your average hummer). Very funny ad they made about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oleDUyU4DC4
yo, I'm not living the US, so I won't take sides in your silly party A/party B flamewars (what was the difference again?), but grandparent seems a bit optimistic about the future. I'm still hoping that your justicial system does its work here, of course, but first see, than be thankful. And as parent points out, the recent history doesn't give much reason to have high hopes.
Further I hope that the supreme court will do what the supreme court has to do (a.o. defend the constitutional rights), no matter which party/president is currently on. I would say you people out there have a pretty fucked up system if it isn't like that.
The site is not very user-friendly, I really have to search to find those tracks. As he is an internet 'veteran', that is a bit dissappointing. Even though I think for a radio DJ he is probably pretty smart to get into a new business and be at least among the pioneers of such a field.
He told me to come to an address in Corona Queens because he got ball and hed give me the Sidekick so he could hit me wit it. I informed them that I had all their pics, their email/screen name and would post this online. They informed me that they had the white little biyotch info who owned the phone and would post that online too.
What I like about this day and age, is that it's apparently more worrying to have photo's of you put on the internet, than to be beaten up. This shows how the internet really started a new era of human civilization.
I have a question to you all. Do you think that DVD will still be made or that producers at some point will just jump to HD-only releases to 'help' people to go to the new format?
almost correct! You only have to change the definition of 'wiki' that is defined in a wiki (of course). This will however start a recursive process, the results of which are still unknown, but will be written down in the wiki the moment more information is available.
Grandparent is apparently still thinking in 'old' technology terms, not in 'new technology' (the difference can be found in a wiki somewhere).
Yeah, and in a world with full cooperation, you wouldn't have to lock your door because no-one would enter your house, at that would mean that there will be serious actions against them. Dream on, mr AC! robots.txt is a flaky way of security, and everyone knows it. If I would want to find out something nasty/interesting of a certain company, I'd look at the robots.txt files to see what I could find.
Furthermore, there are perfectly good ways to lock content away from the outside in a more rigourous way, password-protected pages, pages only accessable via VPN to the intranet, etc. All other information, that is put unlocked, unencrypted, over the internet can be considered open. There will be some chance that you will find it accidentally, for example.
I don't know how many girls you've met, but I actually know no girl who would ever do any of this four no-nos. Do you really expect a woman to start about dungeons and dragons if she isn't actually interested in it? Actually the only kind of person I would expect to talk about dungeons and dragons without knowing anything about is, are 12-year old wannabe nerds. What kind of parallel universe do you live in again?:)
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As an initial advice for the sentence, it might make sense and stimulate objectivity of the judicial system, unless objective parts are put into the program of course (risk for media attention, etc). But to be blindly followed it would be so wrong, so wrong...
As for lifetime of the prepaid shelf-live, in holland there are eternal prepaid plans, your money can stay valid for as long as your phone is still in use. If it's not used (e.g. recieved a call) for a year or so they cut if off of course, but anyway else your money will stay valid. Very nice.
As for buying prepaid SIM cards when in Europe. Recently, I wanted to buy a prepaid phone in Germany and found out that the regulation has changed, about 3 months ago. Before, you only needed a valid pass to get a prepaid phone or card, but now you also have to show the certificate that you got when you registered your residence in germany in the town-hall of your hometown. I don't know what they want to reach by this, but it will make it harder to avoid these huge roaming costs. Not so nice.
Mobile to mobile is a different story. For people with a contract, within the same provider there are options to pay about 1 cent for calls within the network, or there are certain amount of minutes in your package, just as you have there. Probably, as others pointed out, the mobile phone packages are pretty good, and not as restrictive on your mobile phone as Verizon tends to be (from what I've read here on slashdot). I call about one time per day, on average, so a monthly fee package is not profitable for me. This leaves me no choice than a prepaid, and paying absurd per minute costs. Just as in the guy from the UK responding, I end up texting a lot (about 20 cent per message, ridiculous actually, as there is not much bandwith and priority needed for it compared to speech).
If I go from germany to its neighbor holland, I pay about 1 euro per minute (also if someone calls me). As someone else said (with link) the EU is working on this. Sometimes text messages can also get more expensive outside the country.
Why are all the people lauding the european cell network here? I agree the quality is ok, but the pricing is ridiculous. Calling to a mobile phone can be up to 20 cent or more, say 20 times more than a normal phone call. Also, since there are so many small countries in europe, providers earn a shitload of money on 'roaming' costs, even when the same companies are present in almost all countries by now. It has nothing to do with actual costs anymore, but only with how much they can get away with to ask. The fact that there is 'competition' isn't helping much out here, as they silently make sure not to underbid their competitors too much.
Indeed, doesn't have to be windows's fault. I have a linux-based DSL router, and it is programmed to automatically reboot every 24 hours. To clean up, I guess. I put this time at 4 AM, but I tend to even be online then actually :) I cannot turn the option off, and I had routers from other brands that performed perfectly 24/7 without even this sucky "feature".
Actually I do wonder how easily programmable this is for a 10-year old, as it apparently can do quite fancy stuff (shoe with leds in them, where the colors of leds that light up depend on the speed with which you walk). I don't know any of the lego sets, so I have really no clue how child-friendly they are. Anyone can give me an update on this?
Yes, I would say so. The most important thing is a check by the password script on how solid it is, before accepting it. The passwords on the GRC site might be useful for wireless networks or something, where you don't need to remember the password in the first place, but are a good example of how to introduce hellish passwords to your users if these were to be considered for actual login passwords.
I guess they took this feature from IM programs, where you can be invisible for certain friends and family members. But guess what, friends and family are not like work relationships (or at least I hope not for y'all!) as at work there are people with higher hierarchy that might actually force you to do something, and you are dependent on that. Of course they turned it off, duh! A simple but sad solution is available, though, let the who-obverses-who function be configureable by the supervisor/manager only.
The term release candidate refers to a final product, ready to release unless fatal bugs emerge. In this stage, the product features all designed functionalities and no known showstopper class bugs
Notice the terms 'final product' and 'features all designed functionalities'. If those two are not met with, we are still not at RC, but on the way from "beta", probably. Ok, let's say there are no fatal bugs in this RC, then apparently (according to testers) still a lot is missing from it to make it a 'final product'.
Now I wouldn't want to be the head product manager of Vista, but I guess a problem in this complex product will be the fact that they're constantly changing its main features and goals, so it will hardly ever be a final product. If someone should just make hard demands on what it should do, it might actually work out to at least something final.
Indeed, he also failed to mention that the solution he asks for should actually be applied in some critical process for a top-500 company! How did this ever enter ask slashdot! :)
In both the police and the disabled case, the advantage is that you are positioned a bit higher. For policemen to have more overview, and be more easily found, and for disabled it must make a huge difference from sitting in a wheelchair, looking at people's bums all the time :( Really, in a wheelchair you always have to look up to people, it's nice that it can also be done the other way around. Still not at the same level as all other people, but at least you're in more control.
Really, it SHOULD be everyone's own choice how to learn for their exam. Any smart student will be able to figure out for her/himself when it is necessary to follow the class. Or do you want to create a group of people that follow blindly what they are thaught? Then drop out of academics and go into military training. Each and every time I am saddened by seeing obligatory attendance or homework in university classes. Maybe to make more people pass, as that's where the university can show how 'good' it is. Good in being an elementary school!
In science you will of course need the skills to interact with colleagues on subjects, and make your matter clear, but during a university curriculum there will be chances enough to do so, and in some cases you really don't want to. We all had our amount of totally crap lectures, don't fool yourself.
Actually, if it was a renault, it was probably constructed in such a way that least damage was done to both the contents of the probe and the moon (does no-one think of the moon!). Otherwise renault wouldn't have gotten their high NCAP crash ratings (high on pedestrian protection as well, compare that with your average hummer). Very funny ad they made about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oleDUyU4DC4
Further I hope that the supreme court will do what the supreme court has to do (a.o. defend the constitutional rights), no matter which party/president is currently on. I would say you people out there have a pretty fucked up system if it isn't like that.
Seems like you already figured out the two main habits of the average slashdot user. Keep up the good work!
The site is not very user-friendly, I really have to search to find those tracks. As he is an internet 'veteran', that is a bit dissappointing. Even though I think for a radio DJ he is probably pretty smart to get into a new business and be at least among the pioneers of such a field.
So you had to download the WAV or AU over your dial-up connection? Strange it didn't last for too long...
He told me to come to an address in Corona Queens because he got ball and hed give me the Sidekick so he could hit me wit it. I informed them that I had all their pics, their email/screen name and would post this online. They informed me that they had the white little biyotch info who owned the phone and would post that online too.
What I like about this day and age, is that it's apparently more worrying to have photo's of you put on the internet, than to be beaten up. This shows how the internet really started a new era of human civilization.
I have a question to you all. Do you think that DVD will still be made or that producers at some point will just jump to HD-only releases to 'help' people to go to the new format?
thank you! didn't know that one. Didn't read the documentation, of course :)
Grandparent is apparently still thinking in 'old' technology terms, not in 'new technology' (the difference can be found in a wiki somewhere).
Sheet 1:
Tasks - Monday August 19th
* Clean up room
- Closet
- Bed
* Dinner at 18:00
- Beef with potatoes
- No desert, unless:
. . You eat dinner completely
. . You have cleaned up your room
* Remember: Hard work pays off!
ok, I'll add to my previous post that this is valid for almost every country outside the US. "sad but true"
Furthermore, there are perfectly good ways to lock content away from the outside in a more rigourous way, password-protected pages, pages only accessable via VPN to the intranet, etc. All other information, that is put unlocked, unencrypted, over the internet can be considered open. There will be some chance that you will find it accidentally, for example.
I don't know how many girls you've met, but I actually know no girl who would ever do any of this four no-nos. Do you really expect a woman to start about dungeons and dragons if she isn't actually interested in it? Actually the only kind of person I would expect to talk about dungeons and dragons without knowing anything about is, are 12-year old wannabe nerds. What kind of parallel universe do you live in again? :)