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Denn: your analysis lacks a solid backing.

if i have an ability to download 1GB in ten minutes, do u think i will consume less data than my current 20MB in ten minutes capacity?
how then will the network providers make more money from selling less data?
how?

Well lets see, i think redcliff might have a point. this could be achieved by erm i dont know, higher pings, marginalization of bandwidth etc if my theory is correct, once you log onto the network, regardless of whether
or not you are actually browsing, your validity goes too.

So if for example, you dont use your 200MB within 30days, that 200MB becomes invalid?? Just saying. Between i do have a

1Gbps connection to my home. Although i never get up to that speed because of obvious reasons (me being too far away

from the server and all) but i still get a decent speed of about 300Mbps down/up. Torrents averaging about 10mbps per sec

I nominate my humble self, moonraker!!!

mondi_cheeks: I nominate moonraker

bless your heart

Tashamania: I nominate https://www.nairaland.com/moonraker


https://www.nairaland.com/StateOfMind

Bless your heart

Microsoft is working on an update to Windows 8 and RT and will be releasing a preview version of it in June (in time for the Build developer conference), with the full release expected before the year’s end. The software giant has confirmed three things for definite about the update: its name (Windows 8.1), its price (free), and where you’ll be able to get it from (the Windows Store).

But thanks to early build leaks and statements from Microsoft, we also know quite a bit about the many changes the new release will bring to the polarizing operating system. Here’s a rundown of what to expect


Tile Sizes

The leaked 9374 build of Windows 8.1 showed two additional tile sizes -- a larger one that’s double the size of the largest one in Windows 8, and a smaller one that’s a quarter of the size of the current smallest tile.


Personalize

The Settings charm has a new Personalize option that will let you change the Start screen background, and choose a different color and/or accent color.

Split-screen apps

Windows 8.1 will improve multi-tasking by letting you run two apps side by side, with each app taking up one half of the screen. If you have a large high-resolution display you’ll also be able to run three or four apps on screen.

Swipe Up

Swiping upwards on the Start screen will reveal your apps list, and you’ll be able to sort the apps by Name or Date Installed. A handy addition.


Internet Explorer 11

Microsoft’s browser is being updated and will include Do Not Track protection, upgraded developer tools, and will probably support WebGL and SPDY. The Modern UI version will have an integrated download manager.

Automatic Desktop Scaling

The Windows 8 desktop display scaling issue should be fixed in 8.1, with the update offering auto scaling based on screen size and pixel density. A slider will let you adjust things to suit your tastes (and eyesight). You will of course still be able to adjust things manually.

Assigned Access

The leaked 9374 build included a Kiosk Mode that lets you lock down Windows to a single app -- making it useful for Media Centers, or for showing a particular app in a public place. In the most recent leak, 9385, the Kiosk feature was renamed Assigned Access.

SkyDrive

The leaked builds show SkyDrive as a more integrated option and suggest you’ll be able to back up your PC data to the cloud.

Lock Screen

Windows 8 can display status and notification information on the lock screen. Windows 8.1 adds the ability to add an alarm. It also lets you use the lock screen as a picture frame.


New Apps

The update will include some new and improved apps, such as Alarms, Calculate, Sound Recorder, and Movie Moments (this last one lets you trim a scene from a video, add captions, and share it with friends). Leaked build 9385 also revealed the Camera app is being worked on with quite a few changes, including a new panorama feature that looks like Photosynth.

New Drivers

Because what would a system pack update be without lots more of these?

Improved Touch

Touch will still be the primary focus in Windows 8.1, so expect lots of refinements here.

A Start Button

Microsoft hasn’t yet confirmed the return of the Start button in Windows 8.1 and there’s been no sign of it in any of the leaked builds. There have been lots of rumors about it though, with some people claiming it will be a traditional Start button with a Start menu, and others just that it will be there purely to open the Start screen.


Boot To Desktop

Again, we don’t know for certain if this option will make an appearance in 8.1, but the ability to skip the Modern UI screen is a request Microsoft is more than aware of.


As of writing this report, a public beta of Windows 8.1/ service pack 1 aka windows blue will be available sometime in August this year and we might see it go live sometime June next year.

Ofcourse this update will be available via the Windows store as a free download

When it eventually debuts, it will come standard on all PCs

The various leaks can be downloaded from all over the internet but as with every OS leak, it is best to use such

leaks for educational purposes.


Screenies will be posted as soon as Time becomes my friend.

So do you guys and gals think?? Will you be upgrading to the next OS release??

Have you migrated to Windows 8 yet??

On a light note, The first step to cooking good food is to focus.

Desist from bbming or whatsapping while cooking. Cooking is an art. Dont Bleep it up.

27 countries and counting. Jamaica in the summer. Cant wait for that.

Note 3?? erm no thank you. Battery life is hard to deal with without a much larger battery.

Ofcourse this isnt the fault of samsung. Just that Android has lots of features but improved

battery life isnt one of them...

Boko haram is bored with his life I swear

Ok we have heard...









Does really change the fact that peeps in nigeria are living on $1 a day...

5mins

Pipsland78: I fight over whatever is mine so I aint calming down, dude!!

ok then, i understand. in retro respect, i merely complimented her looks.

i didnt do anything wrong, u know??

Pipsland78: Hell no, he aint!!

sorry for stomping on your parade dude but you need to calm down, no fight!!!

candygosh: Nothing special. I'd just do normal stuffs or better still hang out with the workhaholics

Damn grl, u fine!!!

I got flavour's Oyi in my head...

Visa Lottery Result/ Judgement day

Aminnnnnnnnnnnn

Wednesday 1st May 2013

5pm

https://www.dvlottery.state.gov/ESC/

1. Omokhodion

2. Nope

3. Hmmm maybe osofuia in London

4. Teacher don't teach me nonsense

5. Pounded yam and egusi soup

6. Last year. 5times

7. Edo

8. I don't have a clue

9. Everything I guess

10. a lot of things still don't work over there

11. Nope

12. A lot

13. Nope

14. I write it better

15. Nothing physical just music

16. Do you have a/c in your country, do you have ties in your country??

Mynd_44: Was that meant for me? Where have you been?

Yeah sorry for the mix-up. Been around. Just caught up with work. Besides these days, nairaland has gone bananas

sun_temi: No official unlock for SoftBank at the moment.

And what do you mean by AU?

It's another network here offering the iPhone. Kddi au

sun_temi: Orange/TMobile/EE Uk iPhone unlock back with us

SoftBank?? AU?

Br3nd4: Yah Mynd! Im sending assasins to you. Just tot I shud leh you knw

Good dogg. Sup?

laughable. It's about time.

Trying to tame Tokyo's adult playground

Tue 26 Jan 2010
By John M. Glionna

Masatoshi Shimbo, who heads a Roppongi merchants group, stands on patrol in Roppongi, Tokyo's popular night-life district. Bar touts pose a new challenge to his bid to clean up the area's reputation.
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Reporting from Tokyo-- Masatoshi Shimbo has always felt more than a bit paternal toward the changeling Roppongi district, the inner-city neighborhood where he grew up and his family made its real estate fortune.

But Roppongi often breaks his heart, over the decades turning from a U.S. servicemen's haunt into a respectable business district and then back to disrepute -- the gentle women in kimonos giving way to mobsters and drug dealers.

Good or bad, in this famously safe city, Roppongi stands out: elegant one block, seedy the next, a multicultural meeting spot known as Tokyo's most cosmopolitan dusk-to-dawn adult playground.

Through it all, Shimbo has fiercely gone to battle over Roppongi's reputation. Now the 58-year-old merchants association leader is facing a new challenge: bar touts.

Popping up sometimes five or six to a block, the mostly young men from Nigeria and other African nations have a particularly un-Japanese way of doing business. In a country protective of its personal space, the hawkers sidle up to male foreigners, taking them in by the arm to suggest the charms of the scantily clad women waiting inside nearby hostess clubs.

Many take the bait of cheap drinks and casual sex -- and wind up with a headache the next morning. Patrons have had their drinks spiked, then woozily regained consciousness hours later with no memory of the previous evening or knowledge of the thousands of dollars charged to their credit cards.

In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo last year warned the 40,000 American citizens here to avoid Roppongi and its nearly 350 bars and clubs. Without citing numbers, officials pointed to a "significant increase" in drink-spiking incidents.

"The U.S. Embassy continues to receive reliable reports of U.S. citizens being drugged in Roppongi-area bars," the warning read. "Assaults on Americans have also been reported in connection with drink-spiking."

The July bulletin, which followed warnings by the British and Australian embassies, sent Shimbo into action. Within days, members of the Roppongi Commerce Shop Owners Assn. met with U.S. officials and pledged steps to correct the problem.

"I wish I could have told them there isn't such a practice in Roppongi," said Shimbo, the group's vice chair. "But in reality, these things do go on here."

Roppongi's name translates into "six trees," from the samurai families who lived here during feudal times. After World War II, the area was a popular haunt for U.S. servicemen, and visiting military men still sometimes abound here.

When the economy was good, foreign-born stockbrokers and stock traders wandered out of their offices in the upscale Roppongi towers to spend their money here, attracting a parade of young, single Japanese women.

But Roppongi can also show a reckless, bad-boy side. In 2004, four foreign businessmen died after snorting cocaine that police said Roppongi dealers had mixed with heroin.

The area has also been the turf of yakuza. For years, the Inagawa-kai, a major crime syndicate, has been based in Roppongi. In 2007, there was a mob hit in broad daylight nearby.

For years, Roppongi has also attracted countless foreign women lured by the prospect of making big money talking to customers in the area's numerous gentlemen clubs. Lucie Blackman of Britain, a former flight attendant who worked in a Roppongi hostess bar, disappeared in 2000 and the remains of her dismembered body were found in 2001.

"The irony of Roppongi is that the rest of Japan feels so safe and suddenly you're in this unknown territory," said Clare Campbell, whose 2009 book, "Tokyo Hostess," detailed Blackman's death. "You can't assume that every place in Japan is safe, because it isn't."

The bar touts began appearing a decade ago. Slowly, their tactics have gotten more brazen, merchants say.

Shimbo's group began a night patrol five years ago to pick up street trash and erase graffiti, but now the volunteers spend much of their time observing the touts, reporting violations such as aggressive solicitation.

Merchants have posted signs warning against harassment of passersby and last year police made 28 arrests -- double from the year before. But the touts won't go away.

A tout who identified himself as Smithy, a Nigerian wearing a Scottish cap, denied that he harasses anyone. "I do not pull people into bars," he said. "They go in on their own free will."

Some visitors say that Tokyo police, in trying to bring order to the area, have harassed foreign bar patrons, searching them for drugs without proper cause, demanding urine samples.

"Nowadays, everyone is a mark in Roppongi," said human rights activist Debito Arudou, who has written about police practices on his blog. "I don't like being made a mark of."

In an interview, a 31-year-old American said his drink was spiked in a Roppongi bar last year. He later learned of more than $10,000 in unauthorized charges to his credit card.

After going to a bar with two friends, the man's group was approached by two women. The men bought a round of drinks. The victim said he woke up the next morning, in his own bed, with blood on his shirt, the evening wiped from his memory.

The man, who said he did not want to give his name out of embarrassment, believes that Tokyo police were less than responsive to the case. Authorities say there is too little evidence to act on.

"I always avoided the area with the aggressive touts -- we called it the gantlet," said the man. "I never thought this would happen to me."

Shimbo wants to guard against such troubles. So he and his volunteers say they will continue their nighttime patrols.

"I love this neighborhood," he said. "I'm not giving up."

http://forum.gaijinpot.com/showthread.php?84271-The-annoying-Nigerian-touts-in-Roppongi


I suggest you read through the blog to get a full grasp of the situation.


Let me give you guys the short version!!!

Basically, there are lots of Nigerians living in tokyo DUH.

They do various kinds of businesses here. legal and illegal.

but the one business mentioned in this article is the club business.

Now looking at that at first sight, you might think ahhh, that isnt bad business.

but wait, theres more!!!

Apparently, these nigerian club owners are pimps who go hard for the cash. they stop

every top dickk and harry on the road to advertise their business. read all about it in the blog!!!

Suit and Tie (Justin Timberlake Feat Jay-Z)

4llerbuntu: lol. @ op

dont get it twisted. but erm the best analogy i can give you is

A Hyundai Racer (Techno) vs A Mercedes Benz E Class (Gnote 2)


Im pretty sure the hyundai also does what the mercedes does, move from point A to B yet.....

but then its a matter of choice. perhaps u may believe the hyundai is just as great as the merc, or more bang for your buck etc etc

Interesting analogy!!

So what do u think of the iphone 5 vs gnote 2

mbulela: I think you are right. unfortunately, i can't even find where to uncheck it in the Vuze environment. Any clue?

Options/Tracker/Client/Protocol/

Uncheck anything UDP

1025: this time last year, all the english political parties clubs left only chelsea to be representing england in europe and single handedly, we brought down europe.
this year again, everybody don run away leaving only chelsea in europe. WHY?
why are u always claiming to be a champion at home but if u go outside, small clubs go dey use u do yeye?
this is becoming embarrassing and the useless english fa is not doing anything about it and no one is ready to show us some respect.
too bad.

God bless you brother!!!

Deja vu??

Lets not dwell too much on the situation.

Chelsea will be europa champions. A record that teams like man u or arsenal can only dream about..