Perl software development is a seller's market, and that job ad is rubbish and fails to pique interest. It's a bland description with no indication of benefits or salary on offer. In fact, it's even less detailed than the crap Perl job ads that pimps spam me with me on a daily basis. Lack of detail implies there is little good to say about the job. Is that the impression you want to give?
Answer this simple question: Why the bloody hell should I quit my current gig and come and work for you? Then put that answer in the job description.
You are 100% correct. But the new studios will not have the ownership, perception of power, and complacency of the old studios. Or at least not as great.
You appear to have misspelt "Or at least not yet" there. Power corrupts.
Hopefully, you didn't have a device that was capable of receiving radio waves either, otherwise they would have made you pay for their radio license at least (whether or not you listened to their BBC radio station).
That would be somewhat unlikely, given the radio licence was scrapped in 1971.
We should be so lucky. A company that produces TVs that last that long isn't maximizing its profits. My Sharp TV was bought the day of the Challenger explosion, and is on its last legs. I would have been happy if it had lasted 10 years, and would have bought another Sharp, most likely. Anecdotal, sure -- but Sharp lost a sale by making a good TV.
I bought a second-hand Sony telly for fifty quid back in 1994; it was made the year before. It still works as well as the day it was made.
I'd never buy another Sony though. I've seen some of their newer stuff and it's nothing special, so I might as well save a few bob and get something cheaper.
Here I am, having recently moved to a 3 bed former council house built in the 1930s, with a gas-fired central heating system from the 1970s, so it's not exactly efficient. This is a colder than usual British winter, and gas prices are rising sharply. The envelope from nPower flopped through the letterbox the other day and it was opened with trepidation.
... and it was eighty quid for three months. Oh, was that it? Hardly worth me buying anything to try to reduce the usage.
Nuclear engineers say that the chance of a meltdown is very small, but this argument is worthless after Harrisburg and Chernobyl. People in general are mathematically clueless, but they do know that the risk is real and not small after these two events.
Approximately ss much radioactive material is released each year through the burning of coal than was released by Chernobyl once, many years ago.
People are in general unable to understand risk. All other things being equal, very infrequent events are considered more dangerous than what happens continously because they're more unusual and don't seem routine and normal.
in England they still eat this thing made of congealed pigs' blood, called black pudding. Now that is something I could never stomach. It's part of that incredibly unhealthy, clot-inducing concoction called a Full English breakfast.
Ah, yes, the good old Full English. Fry everything, although you can save some time by not frying the cup of tea.
I've been in some caffs where the tea apparently was fried, if the layer of scum and grease floating on top of the tea was anything to go by.
Most europeans won't ever have this kind of problem with privacy and information selling. In Europe you can just go to the kiosk, buy a sim chip, buy some prepaid sim minutes, all without ID or a credit card. Use the phone for a few days, then toss the sim chip and put in a new one if you're paranoid.
You're not paranoid enough. The phone's serial number (the IMEI) is transmitted with the call. So even though you've changed your number, it can be associated with the old one because the IMEI hasn't changed.
We have a nationwide power grid. Why not a nationwide water grid?
Because water is rather heavier than electrons, and it's a completely different kind of engineering problem. Sloshing water round a country costs a lot of energy, so you try to source it as locally as possible.
The grid exists because electricity is cheap to transmit but expensive to store, so already-generated power is sent elsewhere rather than lost. Water doesn't work like this at all.
Perhaps you might need to think this reactionary tax through just a scosh more, follow the economic food chains around. And speaking of actual food chains, I live and work on a farm, you raise the fuel prices to triple what they are now, well get ready for 12$ chickens and 3$ a piece corn on the cob and 6$ loaves of bread at your local urban store. And because the costs of energy are closely related, how about tripling your winter heating bills now? When one fuel goes up in price, they ALL do basically.
In the UK, petrol and diesel is 90p/l (so already US$6/gallon) and yet my food prices are under a third of what you claim would be the case at $6/gallon.
As to my other fuels? Natural gas and electricity are more or less exactly the same price as the USA. And this in the so-called "rip-off Britain".
Good idea, but let's get it right while we're at it. It should be 2005-04-13, or it will be lexicographically ordered later than, for example, 2005-21-13.
At some point the citizenry in some of the smarter countries that broke away will realize how stupid this is when they can't [...] interact with US companies easily.
How will we notice the difference? Most US ecommerce stores don't ship to potential customers elsewhere in the world anyway. Why would I care to interact with a company that doesn't want to do businessw with me?
The best market for these might be the low-volume user for whom a trip to a photo processing place just to make 2 or 3 prints every now and then is too much trouble and expense [...]
For low users, the cost of the printer itself becomes significant and the cost of the ink negligible. Certainly, with the number of prints I get made, I find it works out cheaper and I get better results if I upload photos to the likes of Fotoserve and suffer the oh-so-terrible 24 hour wait for my prints to turn up in the post.
A photo printer costs about a ton and pretty much requires replacement every few years, and I've spent less than twenty quid on prints in five years. Five times the cost doesn't really seem worth it for instant results.
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It's by "No Starch Press" who seem to churn out books that look good on initial inspection, but don't seem to deliver on content.
If this was published by O'Reilly, I'd have bought it on sight as they bother to edit their books. As it is, I'll give it a wide berth.
Deep Green pots only half the shots it plans for - supposedly the same as a below average player - but this is expected to improve.
My pool playing is likewise below average, except when I've had a few pints and I start clearing tables. No, I don't understand it either. Do you think the robot would play better if somebody tipped a pint of beer over it?
These complainers are failing to see the merchant's viewpoint. Fraud can really bite into profits. If I were starting an e-commerce business, I wouldn't ship to any questionable countries. Sorry to hurt anyone's feelings, but it doesn't make business sense.
Mind you, given some of the complete failures I've had in trying to order goods, it would appear that the USA even considers the UK a "questionable country".
Are a high percentage of transactions from the UK really fraudulent, or is it just US citizens being completely inable to look outside of their own back yard?
So I guess a.WAV file would be better than an MP3, which would be better than OGG? Too much compression?:^)
I might have guessed that Slashdot readers immediately think of reduced file sizes when somebody mentions "compression" and "audio" in the same sentence.
Compression when applied to (analogue) audio means changing the dynamic range of the signal - i.e. making quiet parts louder - so as to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. The Dolby B system for audio cassettes should be known by many. Such compression usually includes a decompression step to recreate the original signal. This is why tape players without Dolby decoders will have a different sound - because you're still listening to the compressed signal.
Compression can also be used to make the dynamic range "flat", i.e. that the signal has a constant average volume. Many radio stations compress like this so that they sound the loudest on the dial. However, the music tends to sound terrible as a result. Such compression is destructive because everything is made equally loud and a decompressor cannot determine the original volume to recreate the original signal.
So, the former kind of compression is fine, even desirable, whereas the latter is not. Try not to confuse them, but if somebody does, they're probably on about the latter;)
The reason for a car is for transportation around the city. American cities are spread out, unlike European cities are more compact. Take my city for example, San Antonio. A city of 1.5 million, but its larger land wise than Dallas. Just to get from one side of the city to the next takes 25-30 minutes and that's not counting traffic.
Counterexample to "European cities are more compact": Birmingham.
Birmingham is in the West Midlands in England. It is approximately 8 miles in diameter and home to many hundreds of thousands. (I recall a figure of over a million, but I'm not sure if that doesn't also include the Black Country which isn't really Birmingham.)
It'll probably take you 30 minutes to drive edge-to-edge if it's not rush hour and you take a lax approach to speed limits. Rush hour and going via Spaghetti Junction will inflate this somewhat.
Birmingham also has a public transport system that mostly seems to work. If you live in Birmingham suburbs (or even some of the less remote parts of the Black Country) and have a 9-5 job in the city, it's quite practical to do without a car. After all, you're not going to get there any quicker in a car if it's stuck in the same traffic jam as the bus.
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Perl software development is a seller's market, and that job ad is rubbish and fails to pique interest. It's a bland description with no indication of benefits or salary on offer. In fact, it's even less detailed than the crap Perl job ads that pimps spam me with me on a daily basis. Lack of detail implies there is little good to say about the job. Is that the impression you want to give?
Answer this simple question: Why the bloody hell should I quit my current gig and come and work for you? Then put that answer in the job description.
You appear to have misspelt "Or at least not yet" there. Power corrupts.
They detect the I.F. from the tuner that is retransmitted back up the aerial.
Indeed, however will they detect an LCD TV?
Exactly the same way, as it still has a tuner.
That would be somewhat unlikely, given the radio licence was scrapped in 1971.
I've just received a Council Tax bill for 1100 quid. I'm hardly stealing anything from them - quite the opposite, in fact...
I bought a second-hand Sony telly for fifty quid back in 1994; it was made the year before. It still works as well as the day it was made.
I'd never buy another Sony though. I've seen some of their newer stuff and it's nothing special, so I might as well save a few bob and get something cheaper.
Approximately ss much radioactive material is released each year through the burning of coal than was released by Chernobyl once, many years ago.
People are in general unable to understand risk. All other things being equal, very infrequent events are considered more dangerous than what happens continously because they're more unusual and don't seem routine and normal.
Ah, yes, the good old Full English. Fry everything, although you can save some time by not frying the cup of tea.
I've been in some caffs where the tea apparently was fried, if the layer of scum and grease floating on top of the tea was anything to go by.
You're not paranoid enough. The phone's serial number (the IMEI) is transmitted with the call. So even though you've changed your number, it can be associated with the old one because the IMEI hasn't changed.
Because water is rather heavier than electrons, and it's a completely different kind of engineering problem. Sloshing water round a country costs a lot of energy, so you try to source it as locally as possible.
The grid exists because electricity is cheap to transmit but expensive to store, so already-generated power is sent elsewhere rather than lost. Water doesn't work like this at all.
In the UK, petrol and diesel is 90p/l (so already US$6/gallon) and yet my food prices are under a third of what you claim would be the case at $6/gallon.
As to my other fuels? Natural gas and electricity are more or less exactly the same price as the USA. And this in the so-called "rip-off Britain".
Stop randomly speculating, and do some research.
What's the name of the 21st month? ;)
How will we notice the difference? Most US ecommerce stores don't ship to potential customers elsewhere in the world anyway. Why would I care to interact with a company that doesn't want to do businessw with me?
For low users, the cost of the printer itself becomes significant and the cost of the ink negligible. Certainly, with the number of prints I get made, I find it works out cheaper and I get better results if I upload photos to the likes of Fotoserve and suffer the oh-so-terrible 24 hour wait for my prints to turn up in the post.
A photo printer costs about a ton and pretty much requires replacement every few years, and I've spent less than twenty quid on prints in five years. Five times the cost doesn't really seem worth it for instant results.
If this was published by O'Reilly, I'd have bought it on sight as they bother to edit their books. As it is, I'll give it a wide berth.
A nice US-centric touch: it assumes all phone numbers have seven digits in them. It's all five and six digit numbers round here in 01527...
Oh no, the gummint will realise I Don't Get Any. Like this is any sort of secret...
Firefox 1.0 works a treat on OSX 10.3.6. I'd be surprised if it wasn't also rock solid on Linux et al.
My pool playing is likewise below average, except when I've had a few pints and I start clearing tables. No, I don't understand it either. Do you think the robot would play better if somebody tipped a pint of beer over it?
Mind you, given some of the complete failures I've had in trying to order goods, it would appear that the USA even considers the UK a "questionable country".
Are a high percentage of transactions from the UK really fraudulent, or is it just US citizens being completely inable to look outside of their own back yard?
Ah, but how many of these projects are anything more than a logo and a large TODO file?
FRIEND, MY NAME IS BEELZEBUB AND I NEED TO TRANSFER $27,000,000 (TWENTY SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS) OUT OF THE UNDERWORLD. (etc, etc)
I might have guessed that Slashdot readers immediately think of reduced file sizes when somebody mentions "compression" and "audio" in the same sentence.
Compression when applied to (analogue) audio means changing the dynamic range of the signal - i.e. making quiet parts louder - so as to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. The Dolby B system for audio cassettes should be known by many. Such compression usually includes a decompression step to recreate the original signal. This is why tape players without Dolby decoders will have a different sound - because you're still listening to the compressed signal.
Compression can also be used to make the dynamic range "flat", i.e. that the signal has a constant average volume. Many radio stations compress like this so that they sound the loudest on the dial. However, the music tends to sound terrible as a result. Such compression is destructive because everything is made equally loud and a decompressor cannot determine the original volume to recreate the original signal.
So, the former kind of compression is fine, even desirable, whereas the latter is not. Try not to confuse them, but if somebody does, they're probably on about the latter ;)
Counterexample to "European cities are more compact": Birmingham.
Birmingham is in the West Midlands in England. It is approximately 8 miles in diameter and home to many hundreds of thousands. (I recall a figure of over a million, but I'm not sure if that doesn't also include the Black Country which isn't really Birmingham.)
It'll probably take you 30 minutes to drive edge-to-edge if it's not rush hour and you take a lax approach to speed limits. Rush hour and going via Spaghetti Junction will inflate this somewhat.
Birmingham also has a public transport system that mostly seems to work. If you live in Birmingham suburbs (or even some of the less remote parts of the Black Country) and have a 9-5 job in the city, it's quite practical to do without a car. After all, you're not going to get there any quicker in a car if it's stuck in the same traffic jam as the bus.