The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has both Diebold and NCR ATMs. If I come across a Diebold one when I'm low on money I decide how low I really am.
As an aside, one thing I'm noticing with modern ATMs is that the viewable angle is really wide. This is a bad thing. They should put in cheaper LCD panels or consider installing a privacy filter.
Most MS Office users could switch to Open Office immediately and suffer no more loss to productivity than you would normally expect when changing applications for any purpose. I don't have MS Office installed on any PCs at home, Open Office is more than enough for my needs. At work I have Open Office installed on pretty much everything, and while I usually power up Word, ironically, I use Open Office mostly to open Word documents that Word won't open, for whatever reason.
It appears that, where I work, the web stuff we developed is happy to run under IE7 because I pushed to have it work under both Firefox and IE without doing browser detection. This limited all the browser-specific fancy crap and has meant that our "Portal" happily works with pretty much any browser.
I wish more places did the same thing. Very little of the DHTML/Javascript bleeding-edge UI stuff is really necessary. Frankly, I think it's cooler if something works on Opera for the Nintendo DS.
Dick Smith Electronics sells a few of these. You can find the 300-in-1 kit by visiting the main page and searching for "K0030" (for some reason they prevent deep-linking). I played with a few of these things back in the day and I remember them being pretty fun. However, these days I'd probably recommend Lego Mindstorms instead. With the kit, you're pretty much stuck with the 300 (or whatever) things it can make. With Mindstorms there's a huge fan base with new things being created and details published all the time.
However, corporations and businesses in general are prone to using a lot of custom-designed software built by Windows-only outfits. Until that changes, Apple will have a hard time penetrating the corporation.
Bingo. And a lot of us are also stuck with Dell contracts because they're the cheapest "name brand" Windows PCs (or some such).
The argument is that he didn't commit crimes in the US, he never entered the US and wasn't committing any crime in the country in which he resided.
If this precedent sticks, almost every individual in Australia can be dragged to the US to face, ironically, the kangaroo court funded by the [RI/MP]AA.
Should, therefore, US women who dare to show some skin in magazines that are exported to the Middle East be dragged to some backward Islamic court to be stoned to death?
Given that compact fluorescents pay for themselves pretty quickly, I think your focus on penalizing the poor in this instance is largely unjustified. It's a fine argument when it involves petrol, not so relevant in this case.
Though the issue of the quality of cheap CFLs is an interesting one. As with most government actions like these, there may well be a gold rush of very dodgy product. There will need to be a close watch on quality once the ban (or tax, or whatever) is in place.
Well done. You've half-made a good point really badly.
Incandescent bulbs need to be available for photography and film/TV/video production. Getting the lighting to work is a art at the best of times and a black art at the worst. To remove one category of lighting from a DP's toolbox is less than useful.
By all means, ban incandescent bulbs from residences, shops and cubefarms, but leave a few around where industry needs them.
I, for one, welcome the users being able to do stuff with their PCs. I don't have the time or the inclination to be the gatekeeper to the magical world of IT. If I have to come up with every damn innovation that has a current running through it then I'm not paid enough, and never will be.
I provide a robust infrastructure that allows people to do their job as well or as badly as they want. You can't use computers to enforce (badly thoughtout) business rules without trampling over productivity.
BoardGameNews has some nice coverage. Day One, Day Two and Day Three. Note the Khet (previously Deflexion) tower expansion. I'm definately getting the base set, beam splitters and tower when the tower comes out.
"The Connecticut substitute school teacher who exposed 11 and 12-year-old students to porn in the classroom -- unintentionally, she says, because of malware on an infected PC -- may now go to jail. If her claims are true, she'll be the first American ever jailed for having had the misfortune of being forced to use a buggy school computer, with incompetent or nonexistent tech support from that school's administration despite repeated requests for help." -- Teacher faces jail time over "accidental porn" in classroom.
How do you know that "buy one get one free" wasn't the error? The entire Amazon website is one big computerised black-box. If two bits of information that come from it disagree there's no way for the customer to determine which is correct. Heck, even if you ring up and finally get through to a human chances are that they will only consult a computer for the answer anyway.
The biggest single thing that could be done to save Wikipedia would be to take all of the fiction-related stuff and move it to a new database. Each individual characer in Star Trek or Heroes should not have their own page in an encyclopedia that wants to be taken seriously.
"I would not go so far as to say that (what is known as) the hardcore sustain the entire industry, but what Sony is learning is that they do catalyze it - they make livable the period between when a platform is released and when it becomes a mainstream proposition. These are the people that they are taking for granted. Let's see how far it gets them"
The university where I work has a water tower that they chill overnight at off-peak electricity rates. The water is pumped around campus to heat exchanges in each of the buildings in order to run the air conditioning.
Now, if they were storing wind power in flywheelsthat would be cool.
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-1, Moron.
Two outcomes are not automatically of equal probability.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has both Diebold and NCR ATMs. If I come across a Diebold one when I'm low on money I decide how low I really am.
As an aside, one thing I'm noticing with modern ATMs is that the viewable angle is really wide. This is a bad thing. They should put in cheaper LCD panels or consider installing a privacy filter.
Most MS Office users could switch to Open Office immediately and suffer no more loss to productivity than you would normally expect when changing applications for any purpose. I don't have MS Office installed on any PCs at home, Open Office is more than enough for my needs. At work I have Open Office installed on pretty much everything, and while I usually power up Word, ironically, I use Open Office mostly to open Word documents that Word won't open, for whatever reason.
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It appears that, where I work, the web stuff we developed is happy to run under IE7 because I pushed to have it work under both Firefox and IE without doing browser detection. This limited all the browser-specific fancy crap and has meant that our "Portal" happily works with pretty much any browser.
I wish more places did the same thing. Very little of the DHTML/Javascript bleeding-edge UI stuff is really necessary. Frankly, I think it's cooler if something works on Opera for the Nintendo DS.
Dick Smith Electronics sells a few of these. You can find the 300-in-1 kit by visiting the main page and searching for "K0030" (for some reason they prevent deep-linking). I played with a few of these things back in the day and I remember them being pretty fun. However, these days I'd probably recommend Lego Mindstorms instead. With the kit, you're pretty much stuck with the 300 (or whatever) things it can make. With Mindstorms there's a huge fan base with new things being created and details published all the time.
"My opponent says that are no easy answers. I say he's not looking hard enough!"
I think I've seen that episode.
The argument is that he didn't commit crimes in the US, he never entered the US and wasn't committing any crime in the country in which he resided.
If this precedent sticks, almost every individual in Australia can be dragged to the US to face, ironically, the kangaroo court funded by the [RI/MP]AA.
Should, therefore, US women who dare to show some skin in magazines that are exported to the Middle East be dragged to some backward Islamic court to be stoned to death?
Free will is an illusion, lunchtime doublely so.
No, wait...
Given that compact fluorescents pay for themselves pretty quickly, I think your focus on penalizing the poor in this instance is largely unjustified. It's a fine argument when it involves petrol, not so relevant in this case.
Though the issue of the quality of cheap CFLs is an interesting one. As with most government actions like these, there may well be a gold rush of very dodgy product. There will need to be a close watch on quality once the ban (or tax, or whatever) is in place.
Well done. You've half-made a good point really badly.
Incandescent bulbs need to be available for photography and film/TV/video production. Getting the lighting to work is a art at the best of times and a black art at the worst. To remove one category of lighting from a DP's toolbox is less than useful.
By all means, ban incandescent bulbs from residences, shops and cubefarms, but leave a few around where industry needs them.
I, for one, welcome the users being able to do stuff with their PCs. I don't have the time or the inclination to be the gatekeeper to the magical world of IT. If I have to come up with every damn innovation that has a current running through it then I'm not paid enough, and never will be.
I provide a robust infrastructure that allows people to do their job as well or as badly as they want. You can't use computers to enforce (badly thoughtout) business rules without trampling over productivity.
BoardGameNews has some nice coverage. Day One, Day Two and Day Three. Note the Khet (previously Deflexion) tower expansion. I'm definately getting the base set, beam splitters and tower when the tower comes out.
How do you know that "buy one get one free" wasn't the error? The entire Amazon website is one big computerised black-box. If two bits of information that come from it disagree there's no way for the customer to determine which is correct. Heck, even if you ring up and finally get through to a human chances are that they will only consult a computer for the answer anyway.
Can the rest of the world just build a wall around the US and get on with life?
The biggest single thing that could be done to save Wikipedia would be to take all of the fiction-related stuff and move it to a new database. Each individual characer in Star Trek or Heroes should not have their own page in an encyclopedia that wants to be taken seriously.
Sonic Pinball Party is pretty decent.
The university where I work has a water tower that they chill overnight at off-peak electricity rates. The water is pumped around campus to heat exchanges in each of the buildings in order to run the air conditioning.
Now, if they were storing wind power in flywheels that would be cool.