That is the whole point I think come on the game was already rated for 17+ persons!! so what is the freaking difference if a 17.5 guy see a sexual relation simulation against a 18???? that is stupid if the game was rated for people under 16 or something I will agree... but how just ask any of the population between 17 and 18 years old if they have seen a pornographic movie and I am really sure more than the 80% have!
Darn... somehow slashdot managed to cut my comment.. Yeah, interesting link.. note that ONLY the 1TB memory chip has a cost of USD $6000. From the product specification:
<i>
Specifications [200-pin SODIMM]: 1) DC Input Voltage : 1.4V ±5% ; 2) Standby : <0.25µA; 3) Read : 1.0 µA ; 4) Write: 1.5 µA ; 5) Reading time : 0.3 ns ; 6) Update time : 0.5 ns ; 7) Temperature Operating : -50+125 C ; 8) Humidity Operating : 5 - 95% ; 9) Shack Operating [max] : 2,000G . The expected seling price.is $6000 . </i>
Yeah, interesting link.. note that ONLY the 1TB memory chip has a cost of USD $6000. From the product specification:
Specifications [200-pin SODIMM]: 1) DC Input Voltage : 1.4V ±5% ; 2) Standby : The 2 TB disk will cost $5000 Specifications [2 x 1TB (ATA IDE)] : 1) DC Input Voltage: 5.0V ±10% ; 2) Standby :
Unfortunately the notebook specification does not contain the price.. which I think would end being something like USD $15000
haha
The PSP is just another time wasting device made by a company that saw a crowed market and said me too.
Can you tell me how is the handheld console market crowded? before the PSP the only company "competing" in that market was Nintendo... since the days of the GameBoy... of course I know there where others but, Nintendo did had a real monopoly on this market.
I live currently in UK and all my family and firends are in Mexico. Before knowing skype I used phone cards to call them but I have found skype to be a blessing.
I have looked for other software to replace skype (just to see if there is any competition) but, the fares are almost the same. Unfortunately the calls to Mexico outside Mexico City are 0.080 EUR vs the 0.025 or 0.020 EUR for the standard skypeout call...
All the other services offer something similar. I know it is difficult have cheaper prices but I think it is the only issue to consider when looking for a PC-to-Phone program. Maybe also the quality.
Now, I think it could be nice to have an open source option, because imagine if this new system had an open source "transductor server" which could be installed by anyone. On that case, you could setup a server on your city (lets say, I could install a server in Campeche, Mexico) and it could make the PC-to-Phone conversion. I am not very savvy on how to do this but it could be useful and I think it is compatible with the basic buisness model of OSS (sell services not software).
I remember reading in an Asimov's book an argument about the Sci-Fi genre. IIRC, he stated that, for him the movies that where played in theatres could never be Science Fiction, but just Sci-fi and he separated the two generes stating that Sci-Fi was like only "based" on science fiction, because it didnt have the science elements needed for a science fiction writing, and this of course because you can not compress a 300 hundred page galaxy-political-technological description book into just 2 hours of images...
Kind of makes you think about "an image is worth a thousand words" uh?
ok ok. Imagine this, you are in your house in lets say, 20 years. You have your PhD thesis in one of these old gizmos that people used to call CD... relying on optic technology.
Now, you manage to get one of those old disc readers (or CD-ROM drive as they used to call them) and you are presented with a bunch of.sxw files, each one with one of your chapters... now you KNOW they contain your thesis and you KNOW they are compressed with the LZW algorithm... unfortunatley, you do not know the algortihm or the exact method of decompressing it... someway you know that all that garbage contains the information of your thesis... information that you may need for something.
Now imagine if instead of that you had a bunch of.tex files which you could read with whatever text editor you had or even use one of those age old ink printers, of course you will end up with a lot of \begin{} \end{} \newcommand garbage but, you would be able to read your information.
Well, I remember when I decided do get rid of the pile of 5 1/4 in. floppies I had accumulated (like 120 or more), I engaged in the daunting task of revising each one of them to see wtf did they had... I found a lot of documents I have done in several formats, from Qpro spreadsheet (dont remember the extension) to PW (Professional Write anyone remember that program? it saved me thousands of times when the !"£@ MS Word for 3.11 didn't want to work) and Banner, Printmaster between several other files.
Of course, I could not open a lot of those files (some others where 1337 h4ck1ng and cr4ck1ng courses, anarchist cookbook etc etc... from my "computer hippie days")... of course, I am sure that will suddenly happen with the.DOC 95 MS Office format or others... in 100 years... if instead we have an open format, you are SURE that someone will know about it.
And, if you use a human readable format like LATEX (which I am using lately to write scientific papers) then it will be easier at least to get the/information/.
I do not remember 100% correctly but, I think the finger was crushed and the method consisted in attaching the finger in a mouse so it could "fix" and after some time transplanting it to the man.
Does anyone remembers a cover of the Time magazine that showed a mouse with a human ear? I think it was about that procedure.
Yes, I remember reading about some experiments (with excellent results) in USA, in which a man got his lost its thumb in an accident and after some days their re attached it to the man successfully (with some specific method).
Then I read that, although all that was done as research, the FDA did not approve the method, so it ended being just that, research.
In AllOfMp3.com you can preview all of the songs with low quality. Of course, some people do not like buying there but, anyway you can use it if you are not sure about a new release.
hahaah yes I think this is what GP was speaking about...
But, it has not been disabled, just click on the start menu then select the Run option, type DIALER and press ENTER. There you have it! Have fun making free calls from the interweb ahem... hehe, while you drink some koolaid!
You wont believe but, there is a game called Tactics Arena Online from a Canadian guy I think. (the webpage is www.tacticsarena.com or www.digisonline.com
I consider it a nice flash game. Although I think it is not really simple as it has a client/server architecture. It is kind of like chess but with other features. I started playing it (as it is free to signup) and then *upgraded* to a _Gold_ account ($10 a month i think), but after some time it really was swallowing my time (quite addictive).
So, I think there are nice games and, in this age of TeraPolygon centric games, I think these small games give players what the so forgotten GAMEPLAY.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that for people getting their first system, Windows is even more common than average. This obviously isn't because they're used to it.
How nice that you arouse that point, I am reading the book Rational Ritual which talks mainly about Common Knowledge.
And after reading your comment I think the Linux/Windows problem is about common knowledge. See, one of the main examples Suk-Young (the book author) states is the Apple superbowl commercial. That was in a time when a lot of people used IBM PC or compatible as their main computing platform.
So what they did is to advertise in the superbowl and try to generate a "common knowledge" about the Mac (e.g. if you saw the ad, you knew about the Mac, and you knew a lot of more people would knew about the mac and that they will knew that a lot of more people will knew... and so on ad infinitum).
This, translates into the Linux/Windows problem in some way, as the normal user will not leave Windows because he knows that it is what is commonly used. And that has a lot of advantages in terms of compatibility etc (the author calls those products as "social products" because in some way or another that other users use the product influence your desicion).
Compare it with an alarm clock software, you really do not care if someone else uses MS alarm clock or GNUClock or gClock or iClock, because it could be categorized as a "non social product", that only you will use.
What the Linux community has to do is to create a "massive common knowledge" about the operating system, right now we are at the level of "we know Linux is easy to use, secure, compatible, etc", and maybe we are kind of certain about the fact of "we know that someone else knows that Linux is easy to use...etc", but we really do not know if "someone else knows that everyone else knows that linux is...", this is it is NOT common knowledge, and hence the standard users will just think that as all the above applies to Windows (windows usage is common knowledge, and sorry for the ones that does not want to believe on it) the worst thing that can happen when someone choses to use Windows is that if someone else happens to be using Linux, they can just say, "okey, but you know how to use Window no?, and if you use that geek OS such as Linux, you wont have a problem opening my mdb,doc,xls,ppt or whatver file".
Reason number three: Linux doesn't have enough applications
Really now. I mean, most Linux systems only come with secure Web browsers, like Firefox; e-mail clients, like Evolution; IM clients, like GAIM; office suites, like OpenOffice.org 2.0; Web page editors, like Nvu; and on, and on, and...
People do not want new different IM clients or email or web editors or office suites or whatever, people want THE software their are used to use. Unless the other "new" software is identical to the old software they used to use they wont use it.
As someone else said previously in/. when people is changing to a new technology, they are looking for something that is BETTER, EASIER and that will yield them less inconveniences than the technology they are actually using. And yes, the learning curve is an inconvenience for all of the people that DO NOT CARE about how computers work.
Sorry to be the one to tell it but, that is the main reason all the Joe and Jane User keep using their old buggy software.
Indeed, I was using Emule/ed2k network to download long before the Bittorrent / The Piratebay et. al. anwhere available, Personally I find more things on the Ed2k networks... As an example, there is NO WAY you can find a movie called "Rojo Amanecer" (mexican movie abou the October 2nd massacre in Tlatelolco) on any torrent, but it is available on Emule.
I also used sometime Winmx, that was when I was looking for the digital version of back iusses of the GAme developers Magazine which I could not find on emule (less on bittorrent of course) and I think some japanesse or chinesse had it on WinMX because it was there. These days, I could find only the CD 2 of those archives.
Indeed, I was using Emule/ed2k network to download long before the Bittorrent / The Piratebay et. al. anwhere available, Personally I find more things on the Ed2k networks... As an example, there is NO WAY you can find a movie called "Rojo Amanecer" (mexican movie abou the October 2nd massacre in Tlatelolco) on any torrent, but it is available on Emule.
Have you ever seen a `My Documents' folder of someone who doesn't want to know about computers? No wonder they're always complaining that `it doesn't work.'
Yes, I have seen the "My Documents" folder of my mother's account. And as you say she has like 500 documents, including MS Explorer saved files AND their corresponding folders to hold images and misc binary files.
Yes I know that for me it is really stupid, as I tend to order every thing on its subfolder. For example let me tell you how I order my music:/mnt/Music//Anime/Metal/Dream Theater/Images and Words/.../OST/Boondock Saints/Kill Bill/.../Guitar/Classical/Shred/......
blah blah, you get the idea.
And, althoug I have heard the marvelous things that programs as iTunes, Win.Media Player, Winamp Media Library or even MusicMatch jukebox do to order music libraries I still cant get one that I find really useful.
Maybe for a lot of us that is THE way to do it, but see, my mother, as a lot of computer users is just a Biology teacher. She knows the minimum required to do what she NEEDS to do in her computer (Word, Excel, Power Point) you just need to understand that people does not have the model in their heads, I mean, the model of the file system, that you/we automatically recall when we open the Windows Explorer/Knoqueror/etc...
That attitude (of the most people you are talking about) to me is just like, for instance: ``I don't want to learn about strings and notes, I just want to play the guitar!''
Now, as an example, Think about the WinFS like Gmail, I really found the Gmail approach useful, more if I have thousands of mail. If you see, desktop search bars have gained a lot of acceptance these days.
That is because we no longer know what each file in our computer does, and we do not have to care. We need to get exactly the file that we need when we need it, and you can do that searching.
Now before ranting about the facts I gave, just take my last paragraph and replace the word file with mail and instead of a Microsoft technology you will have a Google technology, is it bad? no, I really dont care where all my files go, if I need to have some files classified then a Tag would be great. otherwise I just want the OS to identify it when I ask for it.
As much as people from abroad take the piss for our "TV license",
Man, being a Mexican stutend in UK, I find that license REALLY anoying... when I arrived to UK I did not have a TV in the place where I was living. Now I just moved to a new apartment where the person living there happened to have a TV (and payed those £10 monthly which I find quite high for public TV). Now I am living in the apartment and I do not watch TV, usually I see DVD's on my computer but someone told me that if I have the TV, the government do not care if you actually see broadcasting channels, you have to pay... and of course if you get cable tv, you have to pay it (it does not matter that you do not see public broadcasting tv channels)... this sucks! I only want to see DVD's or whatever!
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That is the whole point I think come on the game was already rated for 17+ persons!! so what is the freaking difference if a 17.5 guy see a sexual relation simulation against a 18???? that is stupid if the game was rated for people under 16 or something I will agree... but how just ask any of the population between 17 and 18 years old if they have seen a pornographic movie and I am really sure more than the 80% have!
Darn... somehow slashdot managed to cut my comment..
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Yeah, interesting link.. note that ONLY the 1TB memory chip has a cost of USD $6000. From the product specification:
<i>
Specifications [200-pin SODIMM]: 1) DC Input Voltage : 1.4V ±5% ; 2) Standby : <0.25µA; 3) Read : 1.0 µA ; 4) Write: 1.5 µA ; 5) Reading time : 0.3 ns ; 6) Update time : 0.5 ns ; 7) Temperature Operating : -50+125 C ; 8) Humidity Operating : 5 - 95% ; 9) Shack Operating [max] : 2,000G . The expected seling price.is $6000 .
</i>
The 2 TB disk will cost $5000
<i>
Specifications [2 x 1TB (ATA IDE)] : 1) DC Input Voltage: 5.0V ±10% ; 2) Standby : <0.5µA ; 3) Read : 1.5 µA ; 4) Write: 2.5 µA ; 5) Reading time : 60 ns ; 6) Update time : 120 ns ; 7) Temperature Operating : -50+125 C ; 8) Humidity Operating : 5 - 95% ; 9) Shock Operating [max] : 2,000G . The expected seling price.is $5000
Unfortunately the notebook specification does not contain the price.. which I think would end being something like USD $15000
haha
Yeah, interesting link.. note that ONLY the 1TB memory chip has a cost of USD $6000. From the product specification:
Specifications [200-pin SODIMM]: 1) DC Input Voltage : 1.4V ±5% ; 2) Standby :
The 2 TB disk will cost $5000
Specifications [2 x 1TB (ATA IDE)] : 1) DC Input Voltage: 5.0V ±10% ; 2) Standby :
Unfortunately the notebook specification does not contain the price.. which I think would end being something like USD $15000
haha
From tfa:
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.
I CALL BULLSHIT!
We all know Al Gore invented teh interweb!
Hello little Anonymous Trollward...
The PSP is just another time wasting device made by a company that saw a crowed market and said me too.
Can you tell me how is the handheld console market crowded? before the PSP the only company "competing" in that market was Nintendo... since the days of the GameBoy... of course I know there where others but, Nintendo did had a real monopoly on this market.
I agree.
I live currently in UK and all my family and firends are in Mexico. Before knowing skype I used phone cards to call them but I have found skype to be a blessing.
I have looked for other software to replace skype (just to see if there is any competition) but, the fares are almost the same. Unfortunately the calls to Mexico outside Mexico City are 0.080 EUR vs the 0.025 or 0.020 EUR for the standard skypeout call...
All the other services offer something similar. I know it is difficult have cheaper prices but I think it is the only issue to consider when looking for a PC-to-Phone program. Maybe also the quality.
Now, I think it could be nice to have an open source option, because imagine if this new system had an open source "transductor server" which could be installed by anyone. On that case, you could setup a server on your city (lets say, I could install a server in Campeche, Mexico) and it could make the PC-to-Phone conversion. I am not very savvy on how to do this but it could be useful and I think it is compatible with the basic buisness model of OSS (sell services not software).
I remember reading in an Asimov's book an argument about the Sci-Fi genre. IIRC, he stated that, for him the movies that where played in theatres could never be Science Fiction, but just Sci-fi and he separated the two generes stating that Sci-Fi was like only "based" on science fiction, because it didnt have the science elements needed for a science fiction writing, and this of course because you can not compress a 300 hundred page galaxy-political-technological description book into just 2 hours of images...
Kind of makes you think about "an image is worth a thousand words" uh?
ok ok.
.sxw files, each one with one of your chapters... now you KNOW they contain your thesis and you KNOW they are compressed with the LZW algorithm... unfortunatley, you do not know the algortihm or the exact method of decompressing it... someway you know that all that garbage contains the information of your thesis... information that you may need for something.
.tex files which you could read with whatever text editor you had or even use one of those age old ink printers, of course you will end up with a lot of \begin{} \end{} \newcommand garbage but, you would be able to read your information.
Imagine this, you are in your house in lets say, 20 years. You have your PhD thesis in one of these old gizmos that people used to call CD... relying on optic technology.
Now, you manage to get one of those old disc readers (or CD-ROM drive as they used to call them) and you are presented with a bunch of
Now imagine if instead of that you had a bunch of
Well, I remember when I decided do get rid of the pile of 5 1/4 in. floppies I had accumulated (like 120 or more), I engaged in the daunting task of revising each one of them to see wtf did they had... I found a lot of documents I have done in several formats, from Qpro spreadsheet (dont remember the extension) to PW (Professional Write anyone remember that program? it saved me thousands of times when the !"£@ MS Word for 3.11 didn't want to work) and Banner, Printmaster between several other files.
.DOC 95 MS Office format or others... in 100 years... if instead we have an open format, you are SURE that someone will know about it.
/information/.
Of course, I could not open a lot of those files (some others where 1337 h4ck1ng and cr4ck1ng courses, anarchist cookbook etc etc... from my "computer hippie days")... of course, I am sure that will suddenly happen with the
And, if you use a human readable format like LATEX (which I am using lately to write scientific papers) then it will be easier at least to get the
I do not remember 100% correctly but, I think the finger was crushed and the method consisted in attaching the finger in a mouse so it could "fix" and after some time transplanting it to the man.
Does anyone remembers a cover of the Time magazine that showed a mouse with a human ear? I think it was about that procedure.
However, to get Stuffit Expander you have to give up your e-mail address and they will send you at least some spam
Why not try dodgeit and save your email address from spam??
Yes, I remember reading about some experiments (with excellent results) in USA, in which a man got his lost its thumb in an accident and after some days their re attached it to the man successfully (with some specific method).
Then I read that, although all that was done as research, the FDA did not approve the method, so it ended being just that, research.
In AllOfMp3.com you can preview all of the songs with low quality. Of course, some people do not like buying there but, anyway you can use it if you are not sure about a new release.
hahaah
yes
I think this is what GP was speaking about...
But, it has not been disabled, just click on the start menu then select the Run option, type DIALER and press ENTER. There you have it! Have fun making free calls from the interweb ahem... hehe, while you drink some koolaid!
You wont believe but, there is a game called Tactics Arena Online from a Canadian guy I think. (the webpage is www.tacticsarena.com or www.digisonline.com
I consider it a nice flash game. Although I think it is not really simple as it has a client/server architecture. It is kind of like chess but with other features. I started playing it (as it is free to signup) and then *upgraded* to a _Gold_ account ($10 a month i think), but after some time it really was swallowing my time (quite addictive).
So, I think there are nice games and, in this age of TeraPolygon centric games, I think these small games give players what the so forgotten GAMEPLAY.
Nope, he Explore! ...
no comments.
This reminds me of a sign from someone in slasdhot:
"Those who can, do. Those who cant, sue".
for all those people who flick backwards and forewards between 2 channels watching both programs - TV watching for the multitasking generation
Bah, that is not real multitasking, it is just simulated as you will be allocating a fraction of second to each channel.
OTOH, multiple TV watching already existed with the screen over screen technologies
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that for people getting their first system, Windows is even more common than average. This obviously isn't because they're used to it.
How nice that you arouse that point, I am reading the book Rational Ritual which talks mainly about Common Knowledge.
And after reading your comment I think the Linux/Windows problem is about common knowledge. See, one of the main examples Suk-Young (the book author) states is the Apple superbowl commercial. That was in a time when a lot of people used IBM PC or compatible as their main computing platform.
So what they did is to advertise in the superbowl and try to generate a "common knowledge" about the Mac (e.g. if you saw the ad, you knew about the Mac, and you knew a lot of more people would knew about the mac and that they will knew that a lot of more people will knew... and so on ad infinitum).
This, translates into the Linux/Windows problem in some way, as the normal user will not leave Windows because he knows that it is what is commonly used. And that has a lot of advantages in terms of compatibility etc (the author calls those products as "social products" because in some way or another that other users use the product influence your desicion).
Compare it with an alarm clock software, you really do not care if someone else uses MS alarm clock or GNUClock or gClock or iClock, because it could be categorized as a "non social product", that only you will use.
What the Linux community has to do is to create a "massive common knowledge" about the operating system, right now we are at the level of "we know Linux is easy to use, secure, compatible, etc", and maybe we are kind of certain about the fact of "we know that someone else knows that Linux is easy to use...etc", but we really do not know if "someone else knows that everyone else knows that linux is...", this is it is NOT common knowledge, and hence the standard users will just think that as all the above applies to Windows (windows usage is common knowledge, and sorry for the ones that does not want to believe on it) the worst thing that can happen when someone choses to use Windows is that if someone else happens to be using Linux, they can just say, "okey, but you know how to use Window no?, and if you use that geek OS such as Linux, you wont have a problem opening my mdb,doc,xls,ppt or whatver file".
Reason number three: Linux doesn't have enough applications
/. when people is changing to a new technology, they are looking for something that is BETTER, EASIER and that will yield them less inconveniences than the technology they are actually using. And yes, the learning curve is an inconvenience for all of the people that DO NOT CARE about how computers work.
Really now. I mean, most Linux systems only come with secure Web browsers, like Firefox; e-mail clients, like Evolution; IM clients, like GAIM; office suites, like OpenOffice.org 2.0; Web page editors, like Nvu; and on, and on, and...
People do not want new different IM clients or email or web editors or office suites or whatever, people want THE software their are used to use. Unless the other "new" software is identical to the old software they used to use they wont use it.
As someone else said previously in
Sorry to be the one to tell it but, that is the main reason all the Joe and Jane User keep using their old buggy software.
Indeed, I was using Emule/ed2k network to download long before the Bittorrent / The Piratebay et. al. anwhere available, Personally I find more things on the Ed2k networks...
As an example, there is NO WAY you can find a movie called "Rojo Amanecer" (mexican movie abou the October 2nd massacre in Tlatelolco) on any torrent, but it is available on Emule.
I also used sometime Winmx, that was when I was looking for the digital version of back iusses of the GAme developers Magazine which I could not find on emule (less on bittorrent of course) and I think some japanesse or chinesse had it on WinMX because it was there. These days, I could find only the CD 2 of those archives.
Indeed, I was using Emule/ed2k network to download long before the Bittorrent / The Piratebay et. al. anwhere available, Personally I find more things on the Ed2k networks...
As an example, there is NO WAY you can find a movie called "Rojo Amanecer" (mexican movie abou the October 2nd massacre in Tlatelolco) on any torrent, but it is available on Emule.
I also used sometime Winmx, that was when I was looking for the digital version of back iusses of the GAme developers Magazine which I could not find on emule (less on bittorrent of course) and I think some japanesse or chinesse had it on WinMX because it was there. These days, I could find only the CD 2 of those archives.
Have you ever seen a `My Documents' folder of someone who doesn't want to know about computers? No wonder they're always complaining that `it doesn't work.'
/mnt/Music/ /Anime /Metal /Dream Theater /Images and Words /... /OST /Boondock Saints /Kill Bill /... /Guitar /Classical /Shred /... ...
Yes, I have seen the "My Documents" folder of my mother's account. And as you say she has like 500 documents, including MS Explorer saved files AND their corresponding folders to hold images and misc binary files.
Yes I know that for me it is really stupid, as I tend to order every thing on its subfolder. For example let me tell you how I order my music:
blah blah, you get the idea.
And, althoug I have heard the marvelous things that programs as iTunes, Win.Media Player, Winamp Media Library or even MusicMatch jukebox do to order music libraries I still cant get one that I find really useful.
Maybe for a lot of us that is THE way to do it, but see, my mother, as a lot of computer users is just a Biology teacher. She knows the minimum required to do what she NEEDS to do in her computer (Word, Excel, Power Point) you just need to understand that people does not have the model in their heads, I mean, the model of the file system, that you/we automatically recall when we open the Windows Explorer/Knoqueror/etc...
That attitude (of the most people you are talking about) to me is just like, for instance: ``I don't want to learn about strings and notes, I just want to play the guitar!''
Now, as an example, Think about the WinFS like Gmail, I really found the Gmail approach useful, more if I have thousands of mail. If you see, desktop search bars have gained a lot of acceptance these days.
That is because we no longer know what each file in our computer does, and we do not have to care. We need to get exactly the file that we need when we need it, and you can do that searching.
Now before ranting about the facts I gave, just take my last paragraph and replace the word file with mail and instead of a Microsoft technology you will have a Google technology, is it bad? no, I really dont care where all my files go, if I need to have some files classified then a Tag would be great. otherwise I just want the OS to identify it when I ask for it.
As much as people from abroad take the piss for our "TV license",
Man, being a Mexican stutend in UK, I find that license REALLY anoying... when I arrived to UK I did not have a TV in the place where I was living. Now I just moved to a new apartment where the person living there happened to have a TV (and payed those £10 monthly which I find quite high for public TV).
Now I am living in the apartment and I do not watch TV, usually I see DVD's on my computer but someone told me that if I have the TV, the government do not care if you actually see broadcasting channels, you have to pay... and of course if you get cable tv, you have to pay it (it does not matter that you do not see public broadcasting tv channels)... this sucks! I only want to see DVD's or whatever!
Man... I really hate those TLA acronyms...