₦airaland Forum

Thing is VOIP traffic is no different to say you copying a picture from a website or downloading a picture, at a hardware layer it's all the same thing (1 and 0's) so I see no reason why it should take any time if all to get it legalized.

also try www.popcap.com they have some really good games there too

woah that was just stupid

It's common practice in the mobile industary to keep a high turn over of customers and to not exhaust all the numbers. I imagine this is no different, usually however you get a longer period of time to spend your credit (I think the shortest carrier here it lasts for 30 days)

nope i bought mine because it was the best available option
One item that does it all usually doesn't do it all and has a single point of failure, for instance say i bought a phone with mp3 playback and the phone died where does that leave me?

I would of volunteered but I thought it rude

I like presents


Nairaland has managed to get a steady flow of members since i have been here (it was lower than 200 when i joined I think )

Congratulations Seun

They outsource the construction to china, cheap labour...

I forgot to mention that my mate has had to send his zen back three times (twice due to it locking up constantly and one where the remote just stopped working)

Thats a really bad idea Farriel, if you leave your computer insecure you open your self up to a whole wave of identity fraud, hacking, slowed down use etc.

If you really are that worried about it run Linux.

Lucky i use mozilla firefox then

Is the Naira symbol ₦ on a Keyboard?

I'm curious about this, but do keyboards purchased in Nigeria have the proper symbol for Naira like a $ symbol?

For a country the size of nigeria thats not that much so alot more money can be made

For instance telstra (main aussie telco) is partly (51%) owned by the government who wants to sell and it is currently valued at a price of just over 36 billion dollars, which is a lot of money for not even a whole company.
Add that to the fafct they share top spot with another company (optus) worth similar values combined with alot of other providors (smaller but still large) you can see just how much money can be made off it (also we have a population of 20 million)
So perhaps if everything goes well they can make a lot of money off telecommunications and see that it can be profitable which will eventually bring reliable infastructure in (hopefully)

I have an apple ipod that I love (paid AUD $450 for it 8 months ago) and I use it far more than I use my pocket pc. A few of my mates have the ipod mini's and they seem good too. Certainatly makes the boring periods at school fly by (in perticular maths which I hate, much to the disgust of my maths teacher I don't really care about 7 different ways about solving, the moddeling (drawing) a cubic equation))

I forgot to mention one of my friends has a creative zen touch and it is roughly twice as thick as my ipod so keep that in mind...

Better cross Kano and Zanfara off my list

My what's very cold for nigeria?

Perhaps she is embarrased because she was dating another man or something along those lines

We all know that TV ratings means nothing, I thought Jerrry Springer was censored over the nude bits with beeping on the swearing (we all know that it really doesn't stop you knowing what they said)

Jerry is funny for a laugh but not usually what you would call healthy viewing...

I have been to Lagos and Eket that's all, Eket beach doesn't look safe to swim in though (looks like a few rips) :/

In our system if it's found the paper has been compromized they will just fail everyone at the school for that exam :/

Our exam's don't have a name but the peice of paper at the end is your VCE certificate, which is managed by our state (victoria in this case) new south wales and other states have there own certificate at the end but the curriculm is fairly similar across states.

What sort of say topic would some say find on a math's one?

For instance on ours it's about algebra so it's on linear equations, quadratic's, cubic's, calcus (sp?) etc

It's apparantly already leaked on to the internet, so if your prepared to wait a while, while it downloads i suppose you could get it that way

as for bluetooth depending how lucky you are you can usually get outside (bluetooth is really cool at school, you turn it on and browse for phones/computers etc and you usually get at least a page of devices on my phone )

through walls etc i would give it a range of about 30 metres though give or take depending on the devices

just out of curiousity what's involved in these tests (say even an example question) just so I can get an idea of what sort of things are being cheated on.

yeah i think there pretty good, didn't dare try and go to the cinema's today to see it (would of been packed out with super nerd people dressed up in costumes )

This is a shame for the many hardworking nigerian's that play by the rules, in the end it just hurts to people cheating as there certificate will be worth nothing.

yep

If you watch the videos (may take a while -- a long while) to download it but are very impressive.

I still own alot of games though perfectly legally though

At least you don't have man-boob's seun

I figure people say that there something that there not because it makes em look better I guess.

Yeah, I noticed that at the airport actually all the machines were running windows xp which is normally very costly to purchase for so many machines.

I prefer playing games on a computer because of the keyboard and mouse

Also you tend to get much more detailed games on pc (and a much much larger selection)

China has some oil i do beleive

I think it's a blessing in some ways and a curse in others, Nigeria was a country that did not progess in such a way as other nations during the middle ages that has hampered overall development ever since. Oil money can help fix up everything that just hasn't been done previously.

Unfortnatly it has also been a curse for Nigeria, corruption has meant that almost none of the money the money earned has even had effects on Nigerians, and the oil isn't going to be there forever either.

I think an excellent example is the United Arab Emirates, country of similar ways to nigeria before the discovery of oil but 30 years later there now a first world country comparable to many westernized culturals with there own distinct way of life.
Oil money has definatly improved the way of life for everyone there including just everyday people.


/end rant

Well this might be of interest to some people (or then again it might not be )

Pictures of sony's brand new console are now available on the net for us all to compare to the xbox 360.
Technologically it is suppose to offer similar quality graphics (hard to decide till they both come out) but using a different approach to be more efficent.

anyways pictures can be found here

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/16/screens_6124681.html?page=3

Yeah i've seen the video of the release, looks pretty cool

I don't know if you can buy them in nigeria as it doesn't look like microsoft have a distributor there