星期一, 六月 12, 2006

关于O2收费的传言

据网上传言O2将会对在免费时间内拨打0844,0870的号码收费了。也就是说如果再用这些免费号码打国际长途每分钟会被收费了,大家每天都在疯打这些号码,到时帐单会吓死人的……


刚刚在O2官方网站找到这样一段:


...
5. Inclusive minutes apply to calls made in the UK to standard rate UK fixed lines, UK network mobiles (excluding from July 1, 2006, 07744 and 07755 numbers which will be charged at 25p a minute) and voicemail 901. On Online 200, 400 and 500 tariffs, voicemail access and retrieval is free and not decremented as part of your inclusive minutes.

...

9. Inclusive call minutes can be used to call some non-geographical and special services numbers with the following prefixes: 0800, 0808, 0844, 0845 and 0870. Once the inclusive minute allowance has been used up, calls to these numbers will be charged as calls to standard UK landlines at the prevailing tariff. Some exceptions may apply and calls to some numbers may be free of charge.
10. Inclusive minutes cannot be used to call numbers with the 0871 prefix. These calls will be charged at 35p per minute at all times. Calls to Customer Care on 0870 600 3009 are charged at the national rate. Hours of opening 8am to 9pm Monday to Friday and 8am to 8pm Saturday and Sunday.

...


大意是
5.免费时间可以在英国国内用来拨打英国固定电话、移动电话(不包括:从 2006年7月1日起拨打 07744 和 07755 号码会被收取25p每分钟 )和语音信箱 901.Online 200, 400 and 500 服务的语音信箱是完全免费的
9.免费时间可以用来拨打0800, 0808, 0844, 0845 and 0870 开头的号码。如果免费时间用完了,就会被收取拨打固定电话的费率,但是有些特殊号码仍然是免费的。
10.免费时间不能用于0871开头的号码。拨打这些号码会被收取35p每分钟。拨打Customer Care 0870 600 3009 收国内费率。服务时间是每周一到周五8.am到9pm , 周六和周日8.am 到8pm 。


总之目前来看0844 和 0870 的号码仍然是可以在免费时段放心使用的……但是网上曾经见到过的077开头的那个号码在七月一号之后就不能再用了。
上个月用的一直是0844 552 4197的号码,帐单正常,就是1000分钟的免费时间并没有用完……亏了:P

星期五, 六月 02, 2006

Crazy-Gnarls Barkley

已经火了好一阵子的一个单曲
MV中明快节奏中简单堆砌的视觉元素令人印象深刻。



Oringinal

这是另一版本的MV

星期日, 五月 28, 2006

沉没成本

在经济学和商业决策制定过程中会用到“沉没成本”的概念,代指已经付出且不可收回的成本。沉没成本常用来和可变成本作比较,可变成本可以被改变,而沉没成本则不能被改变。在微观经济学理论中,做决策时仅需要考虑可变成本。如果同时考虑到沉没成本(这被微观经济学理论认为是错误的),那结论就不是纯粹基于事物的价值作出的。
举例来说,如果你预订了一张电影票,已经付了票款且假设不能退票。此时你付的价钱已经不能收回,就算你不看电影钱也收不回来,电影票的价钱算作你的沉没成本。
当然有时候沉没成本只是价格的一部分。比方说你买了一辆自行车,然后骑了几天低价在二手市场卖出。此时原价和你的卖出价中间的差价就是你的沉没成本。而且这种情况下,沉没成本随时间而改变,你留着那辆自行车骑的时间越长,一般来说你的卖出价会越低(折舊)。
大多数经济学家们认为,如果你是理性的,那就不该在做决策时考虑沉没成本。比如在前面提到的看电影的例子中,会有两种可能结果:
付钱后发觉电影不好看,但忍受着看完;
付钱后发觉电影不好看,退场去做别的事情。
两种情况下你都已经付钱,所以应该不考虑这件事情。如果你后悔买票了,那么你当前的决定应该是基于你是否想继续看这部电影,而不是你为这部电影付了多少钱。此时的决定不应该考虑到买票的事,而应该以看免费电影的心态来作判断。经济学家们往往建议选择后者,这样你只是花了点冤枉钱,而选择前者你还要继续受冤枉罪。

损失憎恶和沉没成本谬误



很多人对“浪费”资源很担忧害怕,被称为 “损失憎恶”。比如说很多人会强迫自己看一场根本不想看的电影,因为他们怕浪费了买票的钱。这有时被叫做“沉没成本谬误”。经济学家们会称这些人的行为“不理智”,因为类似行为低效,基于毫不相关的信息作出决定错误的分配了资源。
这些思考可能反映了对衡量效用尺度的不统一,因为这种衡量对消费者来说是主观且独特的。如果你真的预订了一张电影票还发现电影确实不对你胃口,你可能会等到散场再走,你觉得你保存了脸面,这也是一种满足。如果你中途退场,陌生人会发现你的判断失误,这可能是你想避免的。你可能从给电影找茬中得到些娱乐,并对自己的鉴赏结果感到自豪。或者你觉得有足够资格在其他人面前批评电影。
沉没成本的概念在分析商业决策时候会被用到。一个常见的沉没成本例子就是宣传品牌的促销。这种情况经常引致不能被正常消化的成本,它不是典型的可能降低品牌含金量换来销量的方式(除非执行退出市场策略)。在做将来投资、销售或广告决策时,仅应考虑未来的可能性,不能因为最近大笔广告投资而便宜。
沉没成本谬误有时也叫“协和效应”,指英国法国政府继续为协和式飞机提供基金的事,而当时已经很显然这种飞机没有任何经济利益可言。这个项目被英国政府私下叫做“商业灾难”,本就不该开始,当时也就要取消了,但由于一些政治法律问题两国政府最终都没有脱身。

From Wikipedia·维基百科

星期二, 五月 23, 2006

闲来无事,贴两张海报

别人的作业……
紫色的一版是初稿,按客户要求改成蓝色的定稿。个人仍然喜欢紫色的,诡异...

Shakira Shakira



So sexy...

星期三, 五月 10, 2006

还好吧……

好久都没给自己写点什么了……
其实也没什么, 每天过着相似的日子, 忙起来拼命忙, 闲下来自己又会害怕。

愁一下作业,打打工,然后就该回去了吧。

总之还好,活着。

星期一, 四月 17, 2006

中奖了?

在网上闲逛时发现前一阵子skype在做买点卡(gift voucher)抽奖的活动。随手搜一下自己的用户名,没有。正常,我怎么会遇着这等好事……
……不对,我的大名就在一队日本子的前头……汗……
链接

经查实,这个名单早在3月分就已经公布了,skype官方并没有发出任何提示信。论坛上已经有用户于昨天(16 april 2006)收到了奖品。

等等看真的假的吧……

星期四, 三月 30, 2006

Lazy days, empty nights.

日子不好也不壞,
水也似的,
流過,就這麼流過了。

時而把一切看得一無是處。
時而又被誘惑得心猿意馬。

流過吧,流過。

p.s. 今天有雨?

星期六, 三月 11, 2006

Dumbing Down

几天没写东西了,贴首歌吧

CHUMBAWAMBA,《Dumbing down》
很喜欢这首歌的词。
你在UK的主题公园还开心吧?
你是否或者也希望你的生活可以“即插即用”?
……
我们是否只是因为“可以”,就只吃罐头装的蠕虫?
迪斯尼乐园是否我们每个人都能理解?
历史是否都被写在头版头条?
……
无言以对
……



Are you happy here in theme park uk?
And do you sometimes wish that your life was plug and play?
And are the words to this song concise enough to follow?
Is your smart food simple enough to swallow?
We're dumbing down, dumb-de-dumb-dumb
Dumbing down, dumb-de-dumb-dumb
Dumb-de-dumb-dumb-dumb, dumb-de-dumb-dumb-dumb
Dumb-de-dumb-dumb-dumb, dumb-de-dumb-dumb-dumb
Are we only eating worms from a can just because we can?
And is disneyland all we understand?
Will our history be written out in headlines?
Diana dolls, and miracles, and landmines?
We're dumbing down, dumb-de-dumb-dumb
Dumbing down, dumb-de-dumb-dumb

C'mon up here, second floor, second floor, right here, right here
I get knocked down and don't get up again, yo, wamba-silly-assed-bitch
C'mon man, we can talk about this
Ah, c'mon, I'm a girl, and I can still kick your ass


If there's nothing after death than why are we living anyway?
What's the point of seventy years? absolutely pointless...
It's me trousers!
That's it

星期一, 三月 06, 2006

eversleeping(进度10%)

答应过要翻译给猫猫的。现在开始不晚罢?

下载


Once I travelled 7 seas to find my love
And once I sang 700 songs
Well, maybe I still have to walk 7000 miles
Until I find the one that I belong

I will rest my head side by side
To the one that stays in the night
I will lose my breath in my last words of sorrow
And whatever comes will come soon
Dying I will pray to the moon
That there once will be a better tomorrow

Once I crossed 7 rivers to find my love
And once, for 7 years, I forgot my name
Well, if I have to I will die 7 deaths just to lie
In the arms of my eversleeping aim

I will rest my head side by side
To the one that stays in the night
I will lose my breath in my last words of sorrow
And whatever comes will come soon
Dying I will pray to the moon
That there once will be a better tomorrow


I will rest my head side by side
To the one that stays in the night
I will lose my breath in my last words of sorrow
And whatever comes will come soon
Dying I will pray to the moon
That there once will be a better tomorrow

I dreamt last night that he came to me
He said: "My love, why do you cry?"
For now it won't be along any more
Until in my cold grave we will lie

斯卡布罗集市---Scarborough Fair

莲波译本

问尔所之,是否如适 are you going to scarborough fair?
蕙兰芫荽,郁郁香芷 parsely sage rosemary and thyme.
彼方淑女,凭君寄辞 remember me to one who lives there.
伊人曾在,与我相知 she once was a true love of mine.

嘱彼佳人,备我衣缁 tell her to make me a cambric shirt.
蕙兰芫荽,郁郁香芷 parsely sage rosemary and thyme.
勿用针砧,无隙无疵 without no seams nor needle work.
伊人何在,慰我相思 then she ll be a true love of mine.

彼山之阴,深林荒址 on the side of hill in the deep forest green,
冬寻毡毯,老雀燕子 tracing of sparrow on snow crested brown.
雪覆四野,高山迟滞 blankets and bed clothiers the child of maintain
眠而不觉,寒笳清嘶 sleeps unaware of the clarion call.

嘱彼佳人,营我家室 tell her to find me an acre of land.
蕙兰芫荽,郁郁香芷 parsely sage rosemary and thyme.
良田所修,大海之坻 between the salt water and the sea strand,
伊人应在,任我相视 then she ll be a true love of mine.

彼山之阴,叶疏苔蚀 on the side of hill a sprinkling of leaves
涤我孤冢,珠泪渐渍 washes the grave with slivery tears.
惜我长剑,日日拂拭 asoldier cleans and polishes a gun.
寂而不觉,寒笳长嘶 sleeps unaware of the clarion call.

嘱彼佳人,收我秋实 tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather.
蕙兰芫荽,郁郁香芷 parsely sage rosemary and thyme.
敛之集之,勿弃勿失 and gather it all in a bunch of heather.
伊人犹在,唯我相誓 then she ll be a true love of mine.

烽火印啸,浴血之师 war bellows blazing in scarlet battalions.
将帅有令,勤王之事 generals order their soldiers to kill and to fight for a cause.
争斗缘何,久忘其旨 they have long ago forgotten.
痴而不觉,寒笳悲嘶 sleeps unaware of the clarion call.

星期日, 三月 05, 2006

The 3rd Season, We are on a break

早晚的事,该发生的总会来的。

不知七年之后的你我,会写下什么样的结局?

S-land