Sounds interesting
I'm buying it, based on this review. It had better be good. :)
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When you buy a Kindle, it's made pretty obvious that it's designed as a device for buying and reading books from Amazon, but that you can send your own documents to it if you like.
Maybe its success is because of that, rather than despite it.
It'd be like buying a Mag Lite and then complaining that it's locked down to using D cells to make the bulb emit light.
I don't have much luck with banks. I left Lloyds and moved to Halifax about six months before they joined into the same thing.
This change to the online banking means I will now be leaving Halifax too. Not only are they saying you won't be able to manage investments online, they're also removing access to all your old credit card statements.
I honestly don't understand how they can be so shit.
I wonder if Google Bank will be any better when it rolls out next year.
That's really good news. With large cinema screens, the distance objects move between frames can be very large. This is why the whole thing looks like jerky shit whenever anyone pans a camera from one side to another.
Not just 3D, but normal films will benefit massively from an increased framerate. It's just a shame they don't go up to 120Hz or so while they're at it.
Just flood them with false reports of checkpoints and the apps will become useless.
Or add false reports of checkpoints in strategic locations and you'll reduce drink driving on those routes without even having to bother paying for the checkpoints to actually exist.
Or add false reports of checkpoints on some routes and put real checkpoints on the obvious alternate routes, so you can catch loads of drunk drivers that think they're going the 'clever' way.
The article is great, but the selection of services that it describes puts me right off paying for TV.
It's really complicated.
90% of the offered channels are unwanted.
It sounds like you get stuck with a service, even if it's crap.
I think I'll stick to Freeview and my crappy DVR.
I'm house hunting at the moment and I can't help checking places out on this map. It has put me off streets and/or areas, even though I know that the data may be questionable. It's hard not to let it influence your vision of a neighbourhood if you don't already know a place well. I guess that's just how humans work. We can't know everything from first hand experience, so we readily accept second hand information and build it into our world view. The fact of the matter is that the cost of being careful feels low compared the the potential cost of being wrong.
In this case, the cost of turning away from considering properties in a certain street is lower than the cost of moving into a street that does turn out to be dangerous. That's because the cost of not looking at the street is probably only financial (maybe missing a bargain), but will never be known anyway, whereas the cost of living in a street where you get mugged or burgled could be very high because once you live there, quality of life comes into play.
As a buyer, I use this site to rule out looking at certain properties, based on what the site suggests the street would be like to live in.
If I was selling a house on a nice street, that showed as iffy on the website, I think I'd be justifiably miffed.