| 19D | 20D | 21A | 22B | 23A | 24D | 25D |
| 26A | 27C | 28B | 29C | 30B |
Wei: Dad says I can get a cheap plan. Here is the one I like.
| SOUTHERN PHONE · Student Plan |
|---|
| 299 a month · 12 months, paid in advance |
| Data: 10 GB, then slow |
| Free calls inside the same company |
| Leave early: pay 500 |
Ann: Ten GB is not much if you download films.
Wei: I only use the Internet at home for that. Outside I just send messages.
Ann: Then it is probably fine. Let us meet at the shop; that would be the wise way. But look at the last line before you sign.
偉:我爸說我可以辦便宜的方案。這是我喜歡的一個。
| 南方電信 · 學生方案 |
|---|
| 月付 299 · 12 個月,須預付 |
| 數據:10 GB,之後降速 |
| 同公司互打免費 |
| 提前解約:付 500 |
安:如果你會下載電影,10 GB 不算多。
偉:那種我只在家裡用網路。在外面我只傳訊息。
安:那大概就沒問題。我們到店裡碰面吧,那樣比較明智。但簽約前看一下最後一行。
Open 12:30 to 13:10 and after school until 17:00
Work saved on a machine is cleaned off every Friday night. Students lose work this way every term, and nothing can be done about it later. Save twice: once here and once on an independent machine of your own. Lost work is a small bomb in a busy week.
Games are allowed after school but not at lunch time. If every machine is in use at lunch, students who are doing school work have the first right to a seat, and a student playing a game must give it up.
開放時間 12:30 至 13:10,以及放學後至 17:00
存在機器裡的檔案每星期五晚上會被清除。每學期都有學生因此遺失作業,而且事後無法補救。請存兩份:一份在這裡,一份存在你自己獨立的機器上。忙碌的一週裡,作業遺失就像一顆小炸彈。
放學後可以玩遊戲,午休時不行。如果午休時所有機器都有人使用,正在做課業的學生有優先使用座位的權利,正在玩遊戲的學生必須讓位。
Dear Sir,
I cannot enter my page. On Tuesday I changed my phone, and now the system sends the number to my old number, which no longer works.
I have tried the help page four times. Each time it asks me to prove who I am by entering the number I cannot receive. I understand why the system is built this way, but it means there is no door at all for somebody in my position.
My page name is my own name and number and I have used it for six years. I can answer any question about it, and I still have the first message I ever sent. Is there a person I can speak to?
A student of Sun Hill
敬啟者:
我無法登入我的帳號。星期二我換了手機,現在系統把驗證碼寄到我的舊號碼,而那個號碼已經停用了。
我試過說明頁面四次。每一次它都要我輸入那組我收不到的驗證碼來證明身分。我理解系統為什麼這樣設計,但這表示對我這種處境的人來說,根本沒有任何一扇門。
我的帳號用了六年。我可以回答關於它的任何問題,也還留著我寄出的第一則訊息。請問有沒有真人可以讓我聯絡?
陽光國中學生
Fifty years ago, in one European country as in ours, a computer sat in a room of its own and people went to it. Today we carry one, and it goes to every place we go.
This changed something nobody planned. When a machine waits in a room, there are hours when you are simply not near it. Those hours are gone now. A question that used to wait until Monday is answered at eleven on Saturday night, and the person who answers it is not paid for that hour.
The machines did not ask for this. We have not yet made the new rules that a machine in every pocket needs. Every tool before this one got such rules in the end; this one is simply too young, and we are writing them now, badly, one family at a time.
五十年前,不論在某個歐洲國家或在我們這裡,電腦都待在自己的房間裡,人們走去找它。今天我們隨身帶著一台,它跟著我們到任何地方。
這改變了一件沒有人計畫過的事。當機器待在一個房間裡,就會有一些時段你根本不在它旁邊。那些時段現在消失了。以前要等到星期一才處理的問題,現在在星期六晚上十一點就被回覆,而回覆的人並沒有因為那個小時拿到薪水。
機器並沒有要求這樣。我們還沒有訂出「每個口袋裡都有一台機器」所需要的新規則。每一種更早的工具最後都有了這樣的規則;這一種只是太年輕,而我們正在訂,訂得很糟,一個家庭一個家庭地訂。