Umm, things like keyboard accelerators are (generally) listed in TFM, which people don't R. So keyboard accelerators don't get used... so the programmers don't get bug reports when they stop updating them in the code or the manuals, which people still don't read.
Whereas going through a document and replacing manually assures them that the changes which have taken place were all seen and actively made.
Which is where the option commonly (but not universally) available to... find the next occurrence of your search term, then choose to replace, or find next again... meets both points and can be carried out with one hand on the Alt key (left or right, your choice) and the other poised over the "R" and "F" keys.
The usage of keyboard accelerators started to drop (from initially low levels) when IIRC Win98 introduced the option to hide emphasis of accelerator keys in menus. And now you have idiocies like the "Ribbon" interfaces that practically force people to stop working and pick up the mouse to do almost anything. Madness.
First it was a form of a word meaning 'to know', then a replacement for 'will you', and finally the new form is an exclamation of joy.
It's got a new meaning? Why? Wasn't it's existing meaning good enough for people?
Oh, sorry, it's that mass literacy thing again. Expecting that people would actually have used their gifts of literacy, libraries and that sort of thing , then being disappointed to find that they don't.
Or... have our societies actually entered a period of mass literacy yet?
So... you reverse-engineer your competitor's best stuff, work out where they're going to go wrong in trying to follow you and develop something that would lead them into a blind alley. Sell *that* to the Chinese (at a profit), in the sure and certain knowledge that it'll be copied and sold cheap... to you competitors.
Five years later : your competitors have shut down their R&D department, because of the "good stuff" they're getting from China ; you've picked up their good staff, cheaper than you'd otherwise have paid, and you've got their good will too ; and the Chinese have no idea how to go from what they copied of yours (deliberate flaws and blind alleys included) to compete with your next generation equipment.
Hey, this is business - those wimpish "all is fair" restrictions that apply to "love" and "war" don't apply here.
Making that sort of point on the way into the polling station might lead to some long discussions with returning officers about the interpretation of the Representation of the People Acts. Possibly in court. From the dock.
that "woot" has had a meaning in the English language for hundreds of years before the neologism was coined.
Having read Mallory and T.H.White and Graves and Tolkein (the non-LoTR stuff) voluntarily in my early-teen years, I have to ask if it's really a neologism. The word has certainly been little used for the past half-millennium or so, but it has remained in use, and the meaning has changed little.
"Neologism, a?" (to use the "a" neologism of CJ Cherryh for a general-purpose interrogative, vintage late 1970s. A book wot I was reading last week.)
What sort of a language is it that can let a word slip out of common usage for less than 20 generations, and consider it new when it comes back? ("One that's not yet comfortable with mass literacy," might be a reasonable answer.)
Agreed. More of the endless flood of trollish, completely dishonest reporting which is constantly being pushed on/. these days.
And how many story submissions have you made recently as your contribution to the effort to reverse the flood of (etc etc) reporting you so dislike?
Remember the sign on the exit door from the polling station that read "if you did not participate, you've forfeited your right to complain"? OK, it's a metaphorical sign, but the problem is a general one.
What do you mean "kiss your company good bye"? Don't you mean "relocate your manufacturing base to the lowest-cost adequate-technical-capability region that you can find, to the benefit of your profit margin and shareholders"?
Remember, this is not a "command economy" but a "free market", and in these "free market" economies, corporations are encouraged (if not legally required) to do anything they can to maximise profits for their shareholders, not to pay an empty piss-bucket worth of attention to petty-minded parochial desires of employees.
Doesn't it feel liberating to experience what the rest of the world has been feeling for decades? I did SO enjoy being treated as a "fucking tartan arab" by Septic Tanks when I started in the international labour market, and it is just so distressing to now see the Septics complaining about being treated like unimportant commodity labourers.
There is a word for the emotion I'm feeling at the moment, but it's German and I wouldn't like you to feel that I was trying to confuse you.
Actually the "question of evil" is only really evidence against the existence of a benevolent and effective god.
A malicious and effective god, or a benevolent and ineffective god could be supported by the "question of evil". Why ineffective, given omniscient and omnipotent and benevolent? Thorny one that.
To paraphrase Douglas Adams : there are three types of problems [snip], and that is a "someone else's problem".
I haven't heard that word used for years - since I worked for a company that had acquired the name by acronymphomania. And they were amused but unamused to find out what it means.
This is largely covered in TFA (which it should be noted is a press release, not the full technical paper) in the sections where they mention the rock as being identified as a Ferroan Anorthosite ("FAN"), which most models of the formation of the Moon has as one of the first components to freeze out of the putatitve magma ocean.
The "first components to freeze out" bit is anchored in lab experiments where you melt stuff, then let it cool and... err... see what... freezes... out... first. Technically fiddly, but conceptually not terribly demanding.
The models of the composition (and temperature) of the putative magma ocean, and even the epoch (time) of the Giant Impact, are conceptually more challenging and more open to uncertainty. Which, to be honest, I'd have to read the paper to know more about what they're actually looking at.
And I'm God too, and I have a Slashdot account with a lower ID than yours.
Which makes me one of the Elder Gods.
So come here with that video camera because I've got some ideas I want to try from some Japanese magazines I saw and I'm just Creating a few tentacles.
Continuing in the far too much information vein, along with the potassium chloride ("Lo-Salt" and the like)...
Drain the body and butcher in the bath - keep the mess as contained as possible.
Gut contents down the shitter and flush. Contents, not guts!
Butcher the body down to large joints - essentially long bones, mound of guts, head and girdles. Bag them, and into the freezer.
As soon as necessary (maybe immediately, depending on how soon the victim is likely to be searched for, and how soon you're likely to be associated), dry the joints off in a low oven. Or, if you're into cannibalism - barbecue time!
The dried meat can be dumped in places where rats/ dogs etc will dispose of most of the evidence. Re-discover your old hobby of weekend hikes up into the mountains. You can use any incriminating clothing, plastic bags etc for starting your nightly fire.
Getting rid of the bones... well I'd have de-fleshed the easily identifiable bones in the bath, dried them gently. Bones don't float on rivers, unless they're frozen over (people have forgotten this last point). Go hiking.
None of which would protect you against a comprehensive forensic investigation. But you'll make it much much harder to build a convincing case against you than, for example, keeping the head in the fridge.
The various murder channels are full of instructional videos of people who got caught. So, do something different to them. It's not rocket surgery or brain science.
Finding a shell account in outer Mongolia is more work than it is worth.
I'll take your word for it for the moment, but if or when I find out for certain myself, I'll let you know.
You couldn't drag me to outer Mongolia for less than 10.[million dollars?]
I'd do it - perfectly happily - for my usual fee of around a thousand (USD, post tax) per day. From what I've heard, Outer Mongolia is a pretty wild place, with some interestingly wild people there. Should be a fun job. At least as much fun as this months job (recent posts on my blog)
Well. Unless the alternative was inner Australia.
Never been there. I'm more of a cold weather person than warm weather, but I rather enjoyed the desert parts of working in the Rubh al'Khalid (Saudi-Dhabi border), so I'm quite attracted to working in the interior of Oz. As long as I don't have to work with certain fucking shit-eating Lebanese bastards (which is pretty likely).
Change your government, or if you don't like getting involved in politics, change your country.
Oh, sorry, you wanted a difficult solution to your problem? Can't help you there.
Have them put the said duffel bag into a small airplane with a route flying over very inhospitable country.
You've missed out the necessary step of them finding a suitably qualified pilot who is willing to do the job. Note that you've specified a very inhospitable country (I suspect you mean more in a political sense than a physical access sense, which I look at later), so you're not going to get 3-way intergovernmental cooperation (extorter's government, extortee's and "inhospitable"). That rules out police/ military or "disciplined services". I.e., you've got to persuade a civilian pilot in an inhospitable country on a very short time frame. Good luck with that. An extorter who asks for something impossible (like delivery involving faster-than-light travel) won't get paid.
As they fly the route, you are on the ground and radio them to toss it out of the plane with a parachute. Collect bag and make your escape,
You being on the ground sort-of rules out you being in a physically inaccessible location, but instead a politically inhospitable location. Which is going to complicate the "make your escape" step.
Given an extorter who's an American (allegedly), an extortee family who're Australians, who would you think is politically hostile enough to both nationalities to cooperate in this sort of scheme? That's a much more difficult problem than if it was an American-American or Australian-Australian case. Which is one of the factors that amused me about the stupidity of the case.
[The obvious difficulty of getting the bomb-disposal officer's head out of the poor girls cleavage also tickled my sense of humour.]
I know four people who've named their wireless networks that.
You know a fifth now, for fairly small values of "know", and given little things like when/if I get home, and the fact that the network name is likely to be something more like "[CITY] POLICE DRUG SQUAD"... but yeah.
It's a goddamned meme.
And it's a good meme because it's spreading.
Since I don't use the wireless at home (why would one?), it might be amusing and informative. Cycle through a few likely-sounding names, log which MACs try to access which networks, try to correlate between cars on the street and login attempts, and find out interesting things about your neighbours...
... things which I either knew or strongly suspected long ago.
Yeah, I think I'd probably pass on that. Having tried it a few times on my current phone, I don't think that I'd want to repeat the experience. Too fiddly.
Oh, that reminds me... while I'm on the less-restricted network. "Things to do."
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Which is where the option commonly (but not universally) available to ... find the next occurrence of your search term, then choose to replace, or find next again ... meets both points and can be carried out with one hand on the Alt key (left or right, your choice) and the other poised over the "R" and "F" keys.
The usage of keyboard accelerators started to drop (from initially low levels) when IIRC Win98 introduced the option to hide emphasis of accelerator keys in menus. And now you have idiocies like the "Ribbon" interfaces that practically force people to stop working and pick up the mouse to do almost anything. Madness.
... which is what makes me wonder if we have actually entered the "age of mass literacy". Sure, the tools are available, but are people using them?
To mis-use, if not actually mis-quote Dot Parker, "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."
It's got a new meaning? Why? Wasn't it's existing meaning good enough for people?
Oh, sorry, it's that mass literacy thing again. Expecting that people would actually have used their gifts of literacy, libraries and that sort of thing , then being disappointed to find that they don't.
Or ... have our societies actually entered a period of mass literacy yet?
Five years later : your competitors have shut down their R&D department, because of the "good stuff" they're getting from China ; you've picked up their good staff, cheaper than you'd otherwise have paid, and you've got their good will too ; and the Chinese have no idea how to go from what they copied of yours (deliberate flaws and blind alleys included) to compete with your next generation equipment.
Hey, this is business - those wimpish "all is fair" restrictions that apply to "love" and "war" don't apply here.
Making that sort of point on the way into the polling station might lead to some long discussions with returning officers about the interpretation of the Representation of the People Acts. Possibly in court. From the dock.
Retail is a different business to manufacture, which is a different business to ... [lather, rinse, repeat] ad nauseam
My point was about manufacturing industries. Retail may have parallels, but I know almost nothing about retail.
Which is why "wisebabo" is a particularly troublesome nickname to have in this particular discussion.
Having read Mallory and T.H.White and Graves and Tolkein (the non-LoTR stuff) voluntarily in my early-teen years, I have to ask if it's really a neologism. The word has certainly been little used for the past half-millennium or so, but it has remained in use, and the meaning has changed little.
"Neologism, a?" (to use the "a" neologism of CJ Cherryh for a general-purpose interrogative, vintage late 1970s. A book wot I was reading last week.)
What sort of a language is it that can let a word slip out of common usage for less than 20 generations, and consider it new when it comes back? ("One that's not yet comfortable with mass literacy," might be a reasonable answer.)
And how many story submissions have you made recently as your contribution to the effort to reverse the flood of (etc etc) reporting you so dislike?
Remember the sign on the exit door from the polling station that read "if you did not participate, you've forfeited your right to complain"? OK, it's a metaphorical sign, but the problem is a general one.
Pretty much what I was thinking when I read the "please become a beta-tester to help us develop this capability" email.
Which I haven't answered yet. Because I'm thinking about it.
Remember, this is not a "command economy" but a "free market", and in these "free market" economies, corporations are encouraged (if not legally required) to do anything they can to maximise profits for their shareholders, not to pay an empty piss-bucket worth of attention to petty-minded parochial desires of employees.
Doesn't it feel liberating to experience what the rest of the world has been feeling for decades? I did SO enjoy being treated as a "fucking tartan arab" by Septic Tanks when I started in the international labour market, and it is just so distressing to now see the Septics complaining about being treated like unimportant commodity labourers.
There is a word for the emotion I'm feeling at the moment, but it's German and I wouldn't like you to feel that I was trying to confuse you.
What else is there to eat?
If the Ju-Ju had meant us not to eat people,
He wouldn't have made us of meat!
(Flanders & Swann, the Reluctant Cannibal, circa 1957.
A malicious and effective god, or a benevolent and ineffective god could be supported by the "question of evil". Why ineffective, given omniscient and omnipotent and benevolent? Thorny one that.
To paraphrase Douglas Adams : there are three types of problems [snip], and that is a "someone else's problem".
I haven't heard that word used for years - since I worked for a company that had acquired the name by acronymphomania. And they were amused but unamused to find out what it means.
The "first components to freeze out" bit is anchored in lab experiments where you melt stuff, then let it cool and ... err ... see what ... freezes ... out ... first. Technically fiddly, but conceptually not terribly demanding.
The models of the composition (and temperature) of the putative magma ocean, and even the epoch (time) of the Giant Impact, are conceptually more challenging and more open to uncertainty. Which, to be honest, I'd have to read the paper to know more about what they're actually looking at.
And I'm God too, and I have a Slashdot account with a lower ID than yours.
Which makes me one of the Elder Gods.
So come here with that video camera because I've got some ideas I want to try from some Japanese magazines I saw and I'm just Creating a few tentacles.
Be assured, this is going to hurt.
She shows a depressing lack of imagination then. Why can't we have a 2000km-diameter cubical moon?
None of which would protect you against a comprehensive forensic investigation. But you'll make it much much harder to build a convincing case against you than, for example, keeping the head in the fridge.
The various murder channels are full of instructional videos of people who got caught. So, do something different to them. It's not rocket surgery or brain science.
I'll take your word for it for the moment, but if or when I find out for certain myself, I'll let you know.
I'd do it - perfectly happily - for my usual fee of around a thousand (USD, post tax) per day. From what I've heard, Outer Mongolia is a pretty wild place, with some interestingly wild people there. Should be a fun job. At least as much fun as this months job (recent posts on my blog)
Never been there. I'm more of a cold weather person than warm weather, but I rather enjoyed the desert parts of working in the Rubh al'Khalid (Saudi-Dhabi border), so I'm quite attracted to working in the interior of Oz. As long as I don't have to work with certain fucking shit-eating Lebanese bastards (which is pretty likely).
Change your government, or if you don't like getting involved in politics, change your country. Oh, sorry, you wanted a difficult solution to your problem? Can't help you there.
You've missed out the necessary step of them finding a suitably qualified pilot who is willing to do the job. Note that you've specified a very inhospitable country (I suspect you mean more in a political sense than a physical access sense, which I look at later), so you're not going to get 3-way intergovernmental cooperation (extorter's government, extortee's and "inhospitable"). That rules out police/ military or "disciplined services". I.e., you've got to persuade a civilian pilot in an inhospitable country on a very short time frame. Good luck with that. An extorter who asks for something impossible (like delivery involving faster-than-light travel) won't get paid.
You being on the ground sort-of rules out you being in a physically inaccessible location, but instead a politically inhospitable location. Which is going to complicate the "make your escape" step.
Given an extorter who's an American (allegedly), an extortee family who're Australians, who would you think is politically hostile enough to both nationalities to cooperate in this sort of scheme? That's a much more difficult problem than if it was an American-American or Australian-Australian case. Which is one of the factors that amused me about the stupidity of the case.
[The obvious difficulty of getting the bomb-disposal officer's head out of the poor girls cleavage also tickled my sense of humour.]
You know a fifth now, for fairly small values of "know", and given little things like when/if I get home, and the fact that the network name is likely to be something more like "[CITY] POLICE DRUG SQUAD" ... but yeah.
And it's a good meme because it's spreading.
Since I don't use the wireless at home (why would one?), it might be amusing and informative. Cycle through a few likely-sounding names, log which MACs try to access which networks, try to correlate between cars on the street and login attempts, and find out interesting things about your neighbours...
... things which I either knew or strongly suspected long ago.
Still be amusing to see if there's an effect.
Isn't that a bit of a contradiction in terms?
Yeah, I think I'd probably pass on that. Having tried it a few times on my current phone, I don't think that I'd want to repeat the experience. Too fiddly.
Oh, that reminds me ... while I'm on the less-restricted network. "Things to do."
iThink that's the iThoughtPolice at the iDoor for iYou.
I can't, without creating 47,000 sock-puppet accounts. What do you think I am? A chiropractic-nut?