You've never heard of usability and the opportunity for users to change fonts and font sizing to something they can actually read, have you? Or different levels of standards support? Or different devices and applications?
In a 'perfect world' then a web page might render identical to the Photoshop image some designer created that was pixel perfect. In the real world there are too many variables and too many reasons why it shouldn't render pixel perfect in all situations.
Designers need to learn that the web isn't print;) Also, from one experience I had of a Photoshop image I had to convert to a web page, designers need to understand that IE sucks when it comes to rendering their designs perfectly, and that if it works in one then it won't necessarily work in all.
$5 per gallon? So $1.25 per litre? So approximately 60p per litre? That's still way cheaper than our 95p+ per litre! You Americans will have room to complain when you approach $2 per litre;)
And how many time have we seen a post in the first dozen going "and for all those who don't want to see a two page article spread across twenty pages then here is the Print version"?;)
Yes, they probably need the advertising revenue, but if they didn't go overboard with it then people might not hate it and try to bypass it so much.
also, if criminals want my PIN, they need me alive.
No they don't, they just need to beat it out of you and kill you, then enter it. Yes you could have given them the wrong one, but you'd still end up dead at the end of it;)
If anything then it's easier to check that it's not a criminal with a face (or a finger print) as you can check for blood flow and heat patterns. It won't solve the problem of someone holding you there, but a trained monkey can enter a PIN while only a real living person (or quite a complex fake) can match a face print and have blood flow etc.
Not that I support the idea of one single biometric log-in, but there are some ways in which it can be made more difficult for a criminal to just steal what they need and empty your account:)
Never mind the more superficial changes. What if you get mugged and beaten for a different card (or a watch or gadget or something) and have your face beaten up? How does it cope with busted lips, big swollen black eyes, broken noses and worse?
I guess it'd be one way to ensure that people can't take their money out!
The good thing with the geek girls I've seen and hung around with is that they tend to be the Rock/Goth types as well. At least geek girls seem to know that you don't have to be slutty to attract people.
Somehow it isn't surprising that Jock brains aren't as nice. They're probably all shrivelled and useless. No comment about comparisons in other areas...;)
And thanks for the congrats. I'm sure lots of people think I must by lying, but I found me my own cute geek girl and even managed to get her away from someone else! Granted he was another geek, but it's still competition and that normally spells the end for a geek's romantic chances:D
Or you could just hit one right out of the ball park (in a good way) the first time and be getting married within four years, by the time you're 23;)
TBH, yes I do sometimes regret not having had 'practice', but I'm more likely to feel glad that my fiancee has been the only one and that I've not got regrets about drunken girls I really wish I hadn't slept with.
At least I didn't end up in bed with a loaf of bread, unlike one rather drunk friend. Not sure if that's worse than the regret of a bad drunken night with a girl or not! Probably more embarrassing.
My geek girl with a cute face and a hot bod is marry-able. Mid-September to be 'precise';) She sees me more as the programmer than the program, though, so I think I'm safe from deletion.
Winnipeg? Wow, for a minute there I thought you were talking about Bracknell or Manchester in the UK! Worrying to see that scally/pikey mothers are a world-wide problem:\
IIRC Argos took advantage of the fact that under British law then the contract of sale isn't completed until they dispatch the item. So, you ordering an item on a UK site is you offering a contract to purchase, and it's up to the seller whether they accept it.
I can't remember the exact prices, but there were some large TVs advertised on their website at ridiculously low prices (like 10% or something) because someone had entered the price wrong. Lots of people found them and ordered them, but Argos never sent any out and eventually cancelled the orders. People complained, but the Office of Fair Trading (I believe) said that the contract hadn't been completed and so Argos weren't bound to the price.
As long as it works fairly and companies have to cut orders at the lower price rather than being able to "bait and switch" to the 'correct' price then I don't see much of a problem. You shouldn't have got it at the cheap price and you end up not getting it at the cheap price.
All they need to do is buy them blank or buy with Vista and nuke the install with an XP image from a mass-key install. Can't think of the name for those corporate mass keys at the moment, though:D
Managers across the country have been heard mumbling things like "Forget the employees, how can we recover all of this lost toner to extend toner cartridge life and reduce print costs?" and "So that's why our toner life was never as long as the brochure".
Nine euro-cents for petrol? I need to go to Saudi Arabia to fill up more often!
Also, it seems strange that they have "Super OCT 95". Here in the UK 95 is regular Unleaded and Super Unleaded is the 98 stuff (http://www.petrolprices.com/about-fuel.html)
Yeah, I was assuming it would be as well, but it'll probably still turn out comparatively cheap.
Besides, we all know that if they're anything like Apple batteries then loaning them then loaning a new one is probably easier than being charged large amounts of money when the battery life shortens and you want to replace a 'bought' one;)
$1.80? I'm guessing that must be UK/Europe converted to US$ because there's no way the Americans would tollerate it that high!
I'm in the Midlands in the UK (so not the South where things can be more expensive) and the cheapest I can find locally is equivalent to ~$1.98 per litre. Most places are a couple of pence more expensive, so over the $2 mark. Apparently parts of Colorado (where my fiancee has family) have been paying less than $3 per US Gallon, which is ~4 litres.
Considering my little 1.2l Punto uses around £100 ($200) of petrol in a month for five 50 mile round trips per week then I don't think $200 per month would be that bad. Unless you have ridiculously cheap petrol.
Say someone is infringing the Linux copyright could a judge charge them per source.c file?
That implies you get a judge who knows what this strange "Lee-nucks" is, never mind the more difficult challenge of finding a judge who knows what a source code file is.
It would be interesting to see whether a stolen GPL case would be as successful, though.
I believe that's the way it works in the UK as well. The price on the shelf is their 'list price' as it were. The price you pay is the price that is agreed between you and the shop staff.
Normally it's only the manager who has the authority (from the company) to change the price (e.g. when you're buying large amounts of electronics and electricals then they may give a discretionary discount based on the large sale) but if the machine says different to the shelf then that's the price the shop are offering it to you at point of sale.
After all, how are you to know that they've not updated the system but not the shelves, or that they just like the look of you and want to discount things?;)
Yes, but a politician can understand a hammer. It's heavy, blunt and simple on the whole (no comments on similarity;) ) where as this new-fangled intarwebs-net-tubes and its associated applications must be dangerous in some way, otherwise children wouldn't be using it.
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Government decision is corrupted and bought by money from big corporation.
Hang on, maybe that's this news!
You've never heard of usability and the opportunity for users to change fonts and font sizing to something they can actually read, have you? Or different levels of standards support? Or different devices and applications?
;) Also, from one experience I had of a Photoshop image I had to convert to a web page, designers need to understand that IE sucks when it comes to rendering their designs perfectly, and that if it works in one then it won't necessarily work in all.
In a 'perfect world' then a web page might render identical to the Photoshop image some designer created that was pixel perfect. In the real world there are too many variables and too many reasons why it shouldn't render pixel perfect in all situations.
Designers need to learn that the web isn't print
$5 per gallon? So $1.25 per litre? So approximately 60p per litre? That's still way cheaper than our 95p+ per litre! You Americans will have room to complain when you approach $2 per litre ;)
They never did say how it was best ;)
It was only ordered frozen. I wouldn't surprise me if someone had failed to actually freeze it!
And how many time have we seen a post in the first dozen going "and for all those who don't want to see a two page article spread across twenty pages then here is the Print version"? ;)
Yes, they probably need the advertising revenue, but if they didn't go overboard with it then people might not hate it and try to bypass it so much.
No they don't, they just need to beat it out of you and kill you, then enter it. Yes you could have given them the wrong one, but you'd still end up dead at the end of it
If anything then it's easier to check that it's not a criminal with a face (or a finger print) as you can check for blood flow and heat patterns. It won't solve the problem of someone holding you there, but a trained monkey can enter a PIN while only a real living person (or quite a complex fake) can match a face print and have blood flow etc.
Not that I support the idea of one single biometric log-in, but there are some ways in which it can be made more difficult for a criminal to just steal what they need and empty your account
Never mind the more superficial changes. What if you get mugged and beaten for a different card (or a watch or gadget or something) and have your face beaten up? How does it cope with busted lips, big swollen black eyes, broken noses and worse?
I guess it'd be one way to ensure that people can't take their money out!
The good thing with the geek girls I've seen and hung around with is that they tend to be the Rock/Goth types as well. At least geek girls seem to know that you don't have to be slutty to attract people.
;)
:D
Somehow it isn't surprising that Jock brains aren't as nice. They're probably all shrivelled and useless. No comment about comparisons in other areas...
And thanks for the congrats. I'm sure lots of people think I must by lying, but I found me my own cute geek girl and even managed to get her away from someone else! Granted he was another geek, but it's still competition and that normally spells the end for a geek's romantic chances
Or you could just hit one right out of the ball park (in a good way) the first time and be getting married within four years, by the time you're 23 ;)
TBH, yes I do sometimes regret not having had 'practice', but I'm more likely to feel glad that my fiancee has been the only one and that I've not got regrets about drunken girls I really wish I hadn't slept with.
At least I didn't end up in bed with a loaf of bread, unlike one rather drunk friend. Not sure if that's worse than the regret of a bad drunken night with a girl or not! Probably more embarrassing.
My geek girl with a cute face and a hot bod is marry-able. Mid-September to be 'precise' ;) She sees me more as the programmer than the program, though, so I think I'm safe from deletion.
Or decides that she's hungry and wants to eat them! Now that would be worrying. And disturbing. And wrong.
Winnipeg? Wow, for a minute there I thought you were talking about Bracknell or Manchester in the UK! Worrying to see that scally/pikey mothers are a world-wide problem :\
Isn't this just normal business? "We're about to bring out the P series, so lets sell off the L series 'cheap'".
Having said that, I don't suppose nearly half price is that bad an offer, even if $800K isn't exactly 'cheap'!
And knowing most super computers, both would be far too large, ugly, and filled with silicon.
IIRC Argos took advantage of the fact that under British law then the contract of sale isn't completed until they dispatch the item. So, you ordering an item on a UK site is you offering a contract to purchase, and it's up to the seller whether they accept it.
I can't remember the exact prices, but there were some large TVs advertised on their website at ridiculously low prices (like 10% or something) because someone had entered the price wrong. Lots of people found them and ordered them, but Argos never sent any out and eventually cancelled the orders. People complained, but the Office of Fair Trading (I believe) said that the contract hadn't been completed and so Argos weren't bound to the price.
As long as it works fairly and companies have to cut orders at the lower price rather than being able to "bait and switch" to the 'correct' price then I don't see much of a problem. You shouldn't have got it at the cheap price and you end up not getting it at the cheap price.
All they need to do is buy them blank or buy with Vista and nuke the install with an XP image from a mass-key install. Can't think of the name for those corporate mass keys at the moment, though :D
Managers across the country have been heard mumbling things like "Forget the employees, how can we recover all of this lost toner to extend toner cartridge life and reduce print costs?" and "So that's why our toner life was never as long as the brochure".
Nine euro-cents for petrol? I need to go to Saudi Arabia to fill up more often!
Also, it seems strange that they have "Super OCT 95". Here in the UK 95 is regular Unleaded and Super Unleaded is the 98 stuff (http://www.petrolprices.com/about-fuel.html)
Yeah, I was assuming it would be as well, but it'll probably still turn out comparatively cheap.
;)
Besides, we all know that if they're anything like Apple batteries then loaning them then loaning a new one is probably easier than being charged large amounts of money when the battery life shortens and you want to replace a 'bought' one
Just a quick reply to myself - I'm guessing Europe, as I just realised that you used a comma as a decimal separator :)
$1.80? I'm guessing that must be UK/Europe converted to US$ because there's no way the Americans would tollerate it that high!
I'm in the Midlands in the UK (so not the South where things can be more expensive) and the cheapest I can find locally is equivalent to ~$1.98 per litre. Most places are a couple of pence more expensive, so over the $2 mark. Apparently parts of Colorado (where my fiancee has family) have been paying less than $3 per US Gallon, which is ~4 litres.
Considering my little 1.2l Punto uses around £100 ($200) of petrol in a month for five 50 mile round trips per week then I don't think $200 per month would be that bad. Unless you have ridiculously cheap petrol.
That implies you get a judge who knows what this strange "Lee-nucks" is, never mind the more difficult challenge of finding a judge who knows what a source code file is.
It would be interesting to see whether a stolen GPL case would be as successful, though.
I believe that's the way it works in the UK as well. The price on the shelf is their 'list price' as it were. The price you pay is the price that is agreed between you and the shop staff.
;)
Normally it's only the manager who has the authority (from the company) to change the price (e.g. when you're buying large amounts of electronics and electricals then they may give a discretionary discount based on the large sale) but if the machine says different to the shelf then that's the price the shop are offering it to you at point of sale.
After all, how are you to know that they've not updated the system but not the shelves, or that they just like the look of you and want to discount things?
Yes, but a politician can understand a hammer. It's heavy, blunt and simple on the whole (no comments on similarity ;) ) where as this new-fangled intarwebs-net-tubes and its associated applications must be dangerous in some way, otherwise children wouldn't be using it.
Or something like that.