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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Orchid XP v8 [mailto:voi### [at] dev null]
> I don't know if this is actually true, but I'm told that *everything*
> is
> quite small in Japan. Including the people...
>
> (I hear claims of the opposite for the USA - but I'm pretty sure
> they're
> exaggerating.)
We're not.
;)
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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>> Maplin isn't the cheapest place on earth, but they provide actual
>> customer service. It's worth a few percent more for that.
>
> I'm not saying you *have* to shop online, just that you should check
> prices first.
OK, fair enough.
I'm just saying that prices in a real shop will always be higher than
online.
>> and have it in your hand the same day, rather than waiting 3 days for
>> it
>> to be delivered and then waiting until the weekend so you can go to
> the
>> post office to collect the item during their brief opening hours...)
>
> Your post office doesn't deliver to your house?!?!?
Nope.
Or rather, "not unless it fits through the letterbox".
For some reason, the box they use to send you a stick of DDR is the same
size as the box Zazzle uses to send you 3 coffee mugs.
>> Hmm. I wonder if that's changed significantly since March...
>
> Probably, I check the prices when I posted yesterday (November).
Clearly. I'm just wondering how much these prices move over time. Some
things get radically cheaper, some things don't change that much.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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"Gail" <gail (at) sql in the wild (dot) co [dot] za> wrote in message
news:491c8393@news.povray.org...
>> How much disk space do you have??
>
> Haven't we been over that before?
>
> Desktop:
> 1x80GB (2 paritions, OS)
> 1x320GB (2 partitions, apps and data)
> 1x160GB (1 partition, games)
>
> Laptop:
> 2x120GB drives
>
> Server:
> 1x80GB (OS and apps)
> 4x160GB in a RAID 5 config. Results in 480GB of usable space
>
And you can add just over 1 TB to that.
Went out today and bought a 1TB external (on sale!) and a 4GB flash drive,
then went to register at the conference centre and was given a 128 GB
external as a 'thank you for presenting' gift.
I think I might have enough storage space for a while now....
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> (They're also a real-world shop, so you can walk in, purchase something,
> and have it in your hand the same day, rather than waiting 3 days for it
> to be delivered and then waiting until the weekend so you can go to the
> post office to collect the item during their brief opening hours...)
I often use amazon next day service and ship it to my office rather than
home.
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>> Data tarifs abroad are quite pricey!
>
> And slower than cooling basult, presumably?
Ermmm, have you ever used a recent 3G data connection? Quite similar to a
DSL line (I think mine says max 7.2mbit, but usally it's nearer 2mbit when
actually using it).
> Really? When my moped was stolen, they didn't have much trouble finding
> it. (Not that there was much left of it.) I guess it depends on whether
> it's stolen by bored teenagers or professional criminals.
Yeh, I guess if someone who mugs you randomly gets your car keys (rather
than mugging you for the sole purpose of getting your car key) they are not
likely to really know what to do with it, so chances of finding it might be
higher. They'd probably just drive it around a bit and dump it somewhere.
To steal modern cars (without having the key) you need a lot of skill and
knowledge, both with exactly how to steal it in the first place (you can't
just "hotwire" them), and then what to do with it afterwards to avoid
getting caught and actually getting some money.
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> I don't know if this is actually true, but I'm told that *everything* is
> quite small in Japan. Including the people...
Oh no, their cell phones are definitely bigger than ours, on the whole. The
Japanese market prefers bigger chunkier phones with huge displays (you try
fitting more than 6 Japanese characters onto a small low-resolution
display!) and many many features, some more useful than others. Like this:
http://www.japancorp.net/Article.Asp?Art_ID=5793
> (I hear claims of the opposite for the USA - but I'm pretty sure they're
> exaggerating.)
Their cars (and trucks and whatever else you call them) seemed way bigger to
me. That's what I noticed the most, when some guy got out of his 4x4, and
only when I saw that the 4x4 was higher than him (he wasn't short) did I
realise how huge his 4x4 was. Or when someone parked a Range Rover next to
a few American 4x4s, and it looked tiny! And then I saw some old woman get
out of what looked like a really old worn-out car, it was *huge*, like take
a Ford Mondeo and double it in every dimension (but make the suspension 2x
bouncier). It also said 5.4L on the back, which I guess is needed to just
move the thing :-)
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> Went out today and bought a 1TB external (on sale!)
They were advertising one of those for 99 euro here (I haven't checked yet
if that's a good deal or not), so I thought about picking one up. It woudl
be useful for moving large files between different machines, and I could
just plug it into my PS3 if I wanted to play some media in the living room.
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scott wrote:
>> (They're also a real-world shop, so you can walk in, purchase
>> something, and have it in your hand the same day, rather than waiting
>> 3 days for it to be delivered and then waiting until the weekend so
>> you can go to the post office to collect the item during their brief
>> opening hours...)
>
> I often use amazon next day service and ship it to my office rather than
> home.
Yeah, I guess I could do that, except that
1. I have to notify the office that I'm expecting a parcel, otherwise
they will open it and file the invoice. (!)
2. I don't know the postal address of my place of work.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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scott wrote:
>>> Data tarifs abroad are quite pricey!
>>
>> And slower than cooling basult, presumably?
>
> Ermmm, have you ever used a recent 3G data connection?
I don't even know what 3G *is*. :-P
> Quite similar to
> a DSL line (I think mine says max 7.2mbit, but usally it's nearer 2mbit
> when actually using it).
Mmm, OK. My mum's works laptop used to have GSM capabilities. It was
several times slower than a 56K modem, depending on location.
>> Really? When my moped was stolen, they didn't have much trouble
>> finding it. (Not that there was much left of it.) I guess it depends
>> on whether it's stolen by bored teenagers or professional criminals.
>
> Yeh, I guess if someone who mugs you randomly gets your car keys (rather
> than mugging you for the sole purpose of getting your car key) they are
> not likely to really know what to do with it, so chances of finding it
> might be higher. They'd probably just drive it around a bit and dump it
> somewhere.
Pretty much, yeah.
> To steal modern cars (without having the key) you need a lot
> of skill and knowledge, both with exactly how to steal it in the first
> place (you can't just "hotwire" them), and then what to do with it
> afterwards to avoid getting caught and actually getting some money.
Well, you'd hope so...
OTOH, presumably if you lose your keys, they have ways to fix this, so
it can't be *that* secure.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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> Yeah, I guess I could do that, except that
>
> 1. I have to notify the office that I'm expecting a parcel, otherwise they
> will open it and file the invoice. (!)
Ooh that's a bit scary :-) But so long as you don't order anything you don't
want them to see, I don't see why it should be a problem.
> 2. I don't know the postal address of my place of work.
How did you know where to go the first day you went there? Anyway, even if
you don't know, just look on some letter or headed paper, or ask someone, or
look on your job contract, or type the company name and town into Google, or
... Personally I have never met anyone who didn't know the address of where
they work!
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