Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-22 Thread Paul Weaver
Just fyi, EU Data prices on my O2 phone dropped between may and July from £2.55+ vat per meg to £0.58+vat. £100 cap and 300MB max. Outside Europe it's still £6/mb. I tore through £50 between the airport and hotel in Delhi last week while checking the taxi driver was taking me the right way!

and this place ships bagels to the US!

2012-08-22 Thread Uri Guttman
http://www.stviateurbagel.com/products/?rand=1002335542

Re: and this place ships bagels to the US!

2012-08-22 Thread Raphael Mankin
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 01:42 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: http://www.stviateurbagel.com/products/?rand=1002335542 So what's the problem? Bagels are no more native to the US than they are to Canada. They are a European invention.

Re: How to retrieve a row, biased by populatity?

2012-08-22 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 21 Aug 2012, at 21:54, Fahad Khan fahad.aj.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Possibly a perl question. SQL would do... Given a set of data, say bands, with each having a ranking, either a review metric or a sales

Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:57:53PM +0800, Paul Weaver wrote: Just fyi, EU Data prices on my O2 phone dropped between may and July from £2.55+ vat per meg to £0.58+vat. £100 cap and 300MB max. Then you need to change your tariff. O2 charge me 8p per MB on the mainland, 2 quid cap per day

Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-22 Thread Paul Weaver
The joys of corporate deals :) I think I (or my employer) was charged £1.80 a minute while i was in Pakistan last year. I dread to think how much it cost! On 22 Aug 2012, at 19:51, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:57:53PM +0800, Paul Weaver wrote: Just

Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-22 Thread Anthony Lucas
They just want you to buy their tethering add-on and mifi products. I got through a gig of data before they caught on last time, in a fairly short space of time (as in hours, using it as a hotspot for my laptop, streaming, you name it) and put the temporary block and redirect page up. They

Re: and this place ships bagels to the US!

2012-08-22 Thread Uri Guttman
On 08/22/2012 04:35 AM, Raphael Mankin wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 01:42 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: http://www.stviateurbagel.com/products/?rand=1002335542 So what's the problem? Bagels are no more native to the US than they are to Canada. They are a European invention. never meant to send

Re: How to retrieve a row, biased by populatity?

2012-08-22 Thread Fahad Khan
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:15 AM, David Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.comwrote: On 21 Aug 2012, at 21:54, Fahad Khan fahad.aj.k...@gmail.com wrote: SELECT * FROM band ORDER BY ranking - RAND() * $BIAS DESC LIMIT 1; Fahad. I like this one best. I know I have 850k rows, just pick the n'th