An honest businessman like me can't make a go of it
The day that Murdoch claims to be an honest businessman in public and gets away with it without being drowned under howls of laughter and derision... well, I don't see that day coming.
If people are paying for the precision and technology behind the ink printing itself, that still doesn't explain why it's so expensive. How can they afford to print the label on that ketchup packet for so cheaply?
I call non sequiter : your question implies that the label on the ketchup packet is printed using the precision and technology of ink(jet) printing. Almost certainly, it's not. It'll be printed using offset lithography or silk screen printing, or some technique that is vastly cheaper than inkjet printing. The costs of setting up an inkjet print job are negligible, but the ink is expensive ; so you use that technology for short-run jobs (one or a handful of copies). The costs of setting up a silk screen or offset-litho print job are substantial, so you use that technology for large-run jobs where the millionth copy is needed to be identical to the second copy and your ink arrives in 1m^3 tanks. For intermediate size print runs, you have a wider range of technologies available.
One size fit all? Sure, for a restricted range of sizes in "all".
My insurance company made us sign an affidavit that all covered persons were non-smokers.
Yes, but what the hell has your health service got to do with your employment? What sort of third-world country do you live in that you don't have health care as a universal right?
... is consumption of dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO). Your numbers might not lie, but neither do mine : every person who has ever died has had significant amounts of DHMO exposure at some time in their life. Worse, now that I think about it, every person (male or female) who has carried a foetus to term has also had DHMO exposure ; so it could be a factor in rendering contraceptives ineffective. That's something to think about. Maybe that explains why at least one popular type of contraceptive is made with rubber whose DHMO content is carefully controlled. I think that the London Rubber Company have some explaining to do!
For the right price I can have a semi-sub anywhere in the world tomorrow. do you realize how many rigs are already in the gulf?
What price do you want for putting a 5km-water-depth capable rig, fully stocked for a 8.5km measured-depth well, 50km NE of Scoresbysund (East Greenland) for Sunday evening?
Even if you had the rig, it physically takes time to move the things.
It is not yet confirmed to which family the new species belongs, and Euan is hesitant to take a guess. "Using morphological information in isolation from genetic information (DNA), to describe a species, would be very dicey indeed," he says.
Is that whirring sound that I hear Carolus Linnaeus rotating rapidly in his grave? Or, for that matter, any other taxonomist who was working before approximately 1995? Or for that matter any palaeontologist, working ever.
I'd say more, but it would be superfluous. I'll just say [/self : clicks "submit" button while shaking head]
Sad, and incomplete, but true... There has been one of those weird-but-true stories going around for a number of years now of a Briton (I think) being charged for committing an indecent act with the pavement. I forget the details, but it was something like being caught by the police masturbating himself against the footpath, again. Googling the complete story (or even Snopes-ing it), is left as an exercise for the prurient reader.
(I'm almost glad that I spelt prurient wrongly! The first time.)
So you've returned the handset to the supplier and requested a replacement with one of a different model? Or even different manufacturer.
(Probably not - doesn't sound like it.)
I have like Nokias for years ; I'm less than entirely happy with my current Nokia (which is starting to misbehave anyway), so I think I'll be telling my servants, the cellphone company, that I want a non-touchscreen phone next time. If Nokia don't supply one, or they don't supply it ; they lose my business. I believe it's called customer choice, and it's devastating businesses around the world.
It all depends on how you describe it. My palaeontology text book from 1983 describes the hectocotylus and it's intelligent pursuit of and penetration into the female as "Copulation by guided missile". HIT!
What a living organism was doing in a palaeontology text book is another question, best addressed to "Mr Trilobite Eyes." But old Trilobite Eyes knew how to get the attention of a class of undergrads.
The implied algorithm is (approximately) : 10 Take swab, bar codes labels and student ID paperwork. 20 Attach one of the bar codes to the DNA swab and one to your paperwork
Step 15 is missing : 15 Randomly swap individual bar codes with freshman strangers And possibly 16 Randomly repeat 15
A few enterprising individuals might also wish to make up some random bar code labels too, of the appropriate size and shape. And while they're at it, why not visit the dog pound to collect some random DNA samples too.
I watched a documentary where they regretted not using killer whales in the Hanoi harbor to exploit the Vietnamese cultural fear of large fish.
How the hell would that work? Every one knows that orcas are not fish - at least, they're no more fish than humans are.
(And yes, I am fully aware that humans, orcas, and everything in between them and the natterjack toad are all "fish" in the sense of "bone-using gnathostome vertebrates".)
Just in case someone left a floppy in the A: drive.
"A:" drives hadn't been invented the last time this hardware was on Earth. (Well, acktewerley... 5 1/4" floppy discs were certainly around, and there were machines that could boot from a 5 1/4$ floppy in one of the disc drives, but not normally by default. And they didn't call those disc drives "A:" ; I don't recall what CP/M or my old PDP-11 called the floppy drives now, but it wasn't "A:".)
So... Bill Gates as Sauron and... home many senior VPs of This'n'That are there at MS? If it's nine, I'm going to start to feel my blood run cold whenever Steve Ballmer lifts a chair.
Does Linus get an aching pain in his shoulder whenever Ballmer flies nearby?
No, that's exactly what you're reading into what I wrote, not what I was meaning. I was, of course, assuming that you were writing the value of the "tip" into the space for it on the bill, which is the norm here. Whether it's the norm in your country, and whether your tax authorities allow the waitresses (tipped staff in general) so much leeway to dodge tax, I don't know. Different taxmen, different regulations. So, what the waitress puts in the till is (in precís) : Bill ==== Meal (blah + blah + blah) Sub-total....$90 Tip..........-$1 Total........$89 (Along, of course, with $89). If the waitress does that, then the till will balance and there's no grounds at all for suggesting that she's stolen a thing ; which she hasn't. Of course, he (gender switch - and why not? Don't you get fed up with women being the ones fucked into waitressing?) also knows that at least one of his customers has felt so shit about the service that the manager is going to know about it. But he probably knew about that already. If he didn't know that, and didn't even read the bill, then he/she/it/they really do need a wake-up call. This then leaves the customer who has no beef with the food, décor, etc the option to voluntarily donate the "missing" dollar to the restaurant, ensuring that the target of their ire is the only one left out of pocket.
That's about $2 too much. You're not obliged to pay what they put on the bill - the bill is just a starting point for negotiation with the business. As long as you don't *leave* until the negotiation has come to a mutually acceptable end.
The manager is quite likely to accept the $89 offered - he really doesn't want to be negotiating with a clearly disgruntled customer in front of all the other customers.
What happens to the waitress is her lookout. If for some reason you feel guilty, you can always donate the missing dollar to the business so that there are no ground for her to get the sack that night.
One of my friends (who works in sales) has the aphorism that "there is no good advert as good as a satisfied customer," and then backs it up with "but there is no bad advert like a dissatisfied customer". Many people forget about the second half.
Umm... Because it suggests that the phones (though not the networks) aren't backdoored?
Why would you expect a phone designed in Finland and manufactured in three different countries spread across both hemispheres to have a back door designed for the benefit of one particular country's State Security Apparatus? Oh, I see - the localisation firmware. Yeah, that's a reasonable concern. So, your phone is bilingual in (say) Urdu and Thai? Or possibly tri-lingual with Tanzanian (the English variant, not the Swahili or the rest).
Not that I think cryogenically freezing the head, or even the entire body, stands a chance in hell of bringing someone back, but with the rise in population we'll no doubt need more spare organs in the future, and I for one don't mind having people put their bodies on ice at their own expense. More spare parts to go around.
"Corpsicle", I think, is the word that you're looking for.
He failed because he misjudged the nature of the internet--badly.
He overestimated the ethics and intelligence of the average person. He thinks that (on average) people are better than they (on average) are. Sad, but not particularly surprising. Maybe I should revise "people" in the above to "people who have access to the Internet" - may well be more accurate.
Slashdot Mirror
Meaning Murdoch
The day that Murdoch claims to be an honest businessman in public and gets away with it without being drowned under howls of laughter and derision ... well, I don't see that day coming.
I call non sequiter : your question implies that the label on the ketchup packet is printed using the precision and technology of ink(jet) printing. Almost certainly, it's not. It'll be printed using offset lithography or silk screen printing, or some technique that is vastly cheaper than inkjet printing.
The costs of setting up an inkjet print job are negligible, but the ink is expensive ; so you use that technology for short-run jobs (one or a handful of copies).
The costs of setting up a silk screen or offset-litho print job are substantial, so you use that technology for large-run jobs where the millionth copy is needed to be identical to the second copy and your ink arrives in 1m^3 tanks.
For intermediate size print runs, you have a wider range of technologies available.
One size fit all? Sure, for a restricted range of sizes in "all".
Yes, but what the hell has your health service got to do with your employment? What sort of third-world country do you live in that you don't have health care as a universal right?
... is consumption of dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO).
Your numbers might not lie, but neither do mine : every person who has ever died has had significant amounts of DHMO exposure at some time in their life.
Worse, now that I think about it, every person (male or female) who has carried a foetus to term has also had DHMO exposure ; so it could be a factor in rendering contraceptives ineffective.
That's something to think about. Maybe that explains why at least one popular type of contraceptive is made with rubber whose DHMO content is carefully controlled. I think that the London Rubber Company have some explaining to do!
Errr, In Soviet Amerikkka, PanGalactic Gargle Blaster beats you?!
Like a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick.
That'd make my whisky decanter illegal. And my vodka and brandy decanters too.
Oh, Texas? Dangerous third-world oil-polluted hole. No reason to visit there anyway.
Ah. Lusi version 2. That's going to help. Not.
What price do you want for putting a 5km-water-depth capable rig, fully stocked for a 8.5km measured-depth well, 50km NE of Scoresbysund (East Greenland) for Sunday evening?
Even if you had the rig, it physically takes time to move the things.
Idiot.
He is thinking of the children - which is why he's got a porn-free iPrick.
Is that whirring sound that I hear Carolus Linnaeus rotating rapidly in his grave? Or, for that matter, any other taxonomist who was working before approximately 1995? Or for that matter any palaeontologist, working ever.
I'd say more, but it would be superfluous. I'll just say [/self : clicks "submit" button while shaking head]
Sad, and incomplete, but true ...
There has been one of those weird-but-true stories going around for a number of years now of a Briton (I think) being charged for committing an indecent act with the pavement. I forget the details, but it was something like being caught by the police masturbating himself against the footpath, again.
Googling the complete story (or even Snopes-ing it), is left as an exercise for the prurient reader.
(I'm almost glad that I spelt prurient wrongly! The first time.)
So you've returned the handset to the supplier and requested a replacement with one of a different model? Or even different manufacturer.
(Probably not - doesn't sound like it.)
I have like Nokias for years ; I'm less than entirely happy with my current Nokia (which is starting to misbehave anyway), so I think I'll be telling my servants, the cellphone company, that I want a non-touchscreen phone next time. If Nokia don't supply one, or they don't supply it ; they lose my business. I believe it's called customer choice, and it's devastating businesses around the world.
It all depends on how you describe it. My palaeontology text book from 1983 describes the hectocotylus and it's intelligent pursuit of and penetration into the female as "Copulation by guided missile".
HIT!
What a living organism was doing in a palaeontology text book is another question, best addressed to "Mr Trilobite Eyes." But old Trilobite Eyes knew how to get the attention of a class of undergrads.
Sorry - why restrict oneself to the dog pound. Zoo, baby, zoo!
The implied algorithm is (approximately) :
10 Take swab, bar codes labels and student ID paperwork.
20 Attach one of the bar codes to the DNA swab and one to your paperwork
Step 15 is missing :
15 Randomly swap individual bar codes with freshman strangers
And possibly
16 Randomly repeat 15
A few enterprising individuals might also wish to make up some random bar code labels too, of the appropriate size and shape. And while they're at it, why not visit the dog pound to collect some random DNA samples too.
How the hell would that work? Every one knows that orcas are not fish - at least, they're no more fish than humans are.
(And yes, I am fully aware that humans, orcas, and everything in between them and the natterjack toad are all "fish" in the sense of "bone-using gnathostome vertebrates".)
"A:" drives hadn't been invented the last time this hardware was on Earth. ... 5 1/4" floppy discs were certainly around, and there were machines that could boot from a 5 1/4$ floppy in one of the disc drives, but not normally by default. And they didn't call those disc drives "A:" ; I don't recall what CP/M or my old PDP-11 called the floppy drives now, but it wasn't "A:".)
(Well, acktewerley
So ... Bill Gates as Sauron and ... home many senior VPs of This'n'That are there at MS? If it's nine, I'm going to start to feel my blood run cold whenever Steve Ballmer lifts a chair.
Does Linus get an aching pain in his shoulder whenever Ballmer flies nearby?
No, that's exactly what you're reading into what I wrote, not what I was meaning.
I was, of course, assuming that you were writing the value of the "tip" into the space for it on the bill, which is the norm here. Whether it's the norm in your country, and whether your tax authorities allow the waitresses (tipped staff in general) so much leeway to dodge tax, I don't know. Different taxmen, different regulations.
So, what the waitress puts in the till is (in precís) :
Bill
====
Meal (blah + blah + blah)
Sub-total....$90
Tip..........-$1
Total........$89
(Along, of course, with $89).
If the waitress does that, then the till will balance and there's no grounds at all for suggesting that she's stolen a thing ; which she hasn't. Of course, he (gender switch - and why not? Don't you get fed up with women being the ones fucked into waitressing?) also knows that at least one of his customers has felt so shit about the service that the manager is going to know about it. But he probably knew about that already. If he didn't know that, and didn't even read the bill, then he/she/it/they really do need a wake-up call.
This then leaves the customer who has no beef with the food, décor, etc the option to voluntarily donate the "missing" dollar to the restaurant, ensuring that the target of their ire is the only one left out of pocket.
That's about $2 too much.
You're not obliged to pay what they put on the bill - the bill is just a starting point for negotiation with the business. As long as you don't *leave* until the negotiation has come to a mutually acceptable end.
The manager is quite likely to accept the $89 offered - he really doesn't want to be negotiating with a clearly disgruntled customer in front of all the other customers.
What happens to the waitress is her lookout. If for some reason you feel guilty, you can always donate the missing dollar to the business so that there are no ground for her to get the sack that night.
One of my friends (who works in sales) has the aphorism that "there is no good advert as good as a satisfied customer," and then backs it up with "but there is no bad advert like a dissatisfied customer". Many people forget about the second half.
Why would you expect a phone designed in Finland and manufactured in three different countries spread across both hemispheres to have a back door designed for the benefit of one particular country's State Security Apparatus?
Oh, I see - the localisation firmware. Yeah, that's a reasonable concern. So, your phone is bilingual in (say) Urdu and Thai? Or possibly tri-lingual with Tanzanian (the English variant, not the Swahili or the rest).
A laudable aim, but your project is bound to end up in a disorganised mess.
"Corpsicle", I think, is the word that you're looking for.
Before or after declaring war over the insult?
He overestimated the ethics and intelligence of the average person. He thinks that (on average) people are better than they (on average) are. Sad, but not particularly surprising.
Maybe I should revise "people" in the above to "people who have access to the Internet" - may well be more accurate.