What? I seriously thought "referer" was how people in the US spelled "referrer". You guys drop double letters from other words so it makes sense.:) I'm talking about "canceled" looking like a funny version of "cancelled".
I have/had accounts with 3 banks (NBA, CBA, WBC), a building society (HBA) and a credit union (CRU), none of them needed Java for Internet Banking. They generally all work fully in Opera on Linux too! Neither of the two items in TFA worked for me and I don't think I have anything special turned on/off to block it.
I did some contract work for a government deptartment. Reinstalling windows involved a Linux boot CD (Suse IIRC) that got an image off the Novell server - this contained a FAT 32 partition and Windows 98 which immediately converted to NTFS, rebooted and setup everything required. A fully working XP system in ~an hour with no intervention other than removing the boot CD (during the image download). Logging in would then setup final items (usually network access issues) and updates would automatically be downloaded and installed. The same image was used for all desktops and laptops. There was an issue with an old boot CD and new laptop which would kernel panic, and old laptops and new CD would not work at all either. But 99% of the time it was seamless.
The serial key was a printout of an email taped to the wall - but we almost never needed it.
I was hired as an extra pair of hands for the update to SP2 late last year. I personally saw SP2 kill two computers, never to recover (HDD died from the stress), plus dozens more that needed reimaging. But there were probably hundreds that worked well.
I've never had rabbit ears "just work". There's always the adjustment to make the screen not a polar bear in a snowstorm. Then the fine-tuning to get it as clear as possible. Then you change channel (to one that uses a different frequency or tower) and you start all over again.
Yeah, well, "G'day" is just a contraction of "Good day". I remember my grade 7 teacher insisted on spelling it "gidday" - that's the only place I've seen it spelt that way. That spelling implies a slightly different pronounciation.
I was making up "hoomor" but I have seen many other words with a long "oo" sound replacing the "u" where it shouldn't, and even other letters. There's a song I've heard on the radio (TripleJ, so not your average radio station) that sampled a speech that mentioned "David Booee" and "Cyndi Looper". I'm assuming they are "David Bowie" and "Cyndi Lauper". But anyway...
But then I grew up in a city called Toowoomba: almost no-one pronounces it correctly unless they've heard someone else say it.
I don't know, but it's a pet hate that so many words sound horrible coming out of the TV. Some that spring to mind include emu, buoy and puma.
I saw the MST3K version of Pumaman, the robots "corrected" the English speakers pronounciation of "puma" to "pooma", and even saw the joke in correcting "human" to "hooman".
I listen to DI.FM from a local mirror in Brisbane, Australia. Does me listening count as a broadcast, considering i'm not in the US and my connection doesn't get anywhere near the US? How would they even track the usage in this case? I went to listen this morning (Wednesday 27/06/07 at 9:30AM GMT+1000) and got no music!
That would be Telstra: A company which sells "broadband" for $30/month which includes 200MB/month transfers (up+down) and 15c/MB excess use. You can get this price on either 8mbit cable (metro) or 256kbit ADSL (around 95% of the country). (And yes, people have had huge bills and Telstra makes them pay) See: http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/isp.cfm/Telstra-BigPond /1.html You can get better deals off other companies, but all must give some money to Telstra (except the very few non-Telstra-cabled areas).
Quickest I've had ADSL installed was 3 days, slowest 21 days. I've had it connected at about 10 different places with 8 different ISPs - all wholesale customers of Telstra.
Once you learnt all the codes for WP, it was very fast to use. 5.1 even had a menu if you didn't feel like using the F-key overlay. It's a bit like why people still use vi/vim.:-) The keyboard is very quick compared to using the mouse in many cases.
As a business owner, can you afford slower production times while you and your employees learn OO?
Have you used Office 2007? It is very different to previous versions from what I've seen in my occasional use (Boss upgraded to Vista which keeps forgetting the password mid-session to the network shares, among other things). From what I've seen in my several places I've worked no-one uses Word properly anyway.
Deviation from the proscribed spelling and notation will break your code.
Using "proscribed spelling and notation" will break your code. Proscribe means "To denounce or condemn; To prohibit, forbid; To banish or outlaw (a person); To publish the name of (a person) as outlawed."
Was that a typo or illiteracy? I'm assuming you meant "prescribed". It's hard to tell whether to call someone on a mistake if it's a typo or illiteracy or ignorance or bad habits or other!:)
What was the function that returns 2007 in 2007 but returned 99 in 1999? I always think of that misfeature when I hear the Gorillaz song 19-2000.:) (That was a common Y2K bug, people concatting "19" to a two-digit-year function)
Now that we are heading into winter I know I'm not getting up as early. You say "light until 8pm" well that would be "9pm" in DST. Have you never heard of curtains to keep light out?
I like the idea of dawn being 00:00, which would mean dusk could be between 12:00 and 16:00 (the further towards the poles the more time in light, but we'll ensure "night" has at least 8 hours for those zones). This idea would require timezones on latitude as well as longitude. And it would require a "gradual DST" which isn't technically impossible, just a lot of ingrained technology would need replacing. It could be possible with GPS receivers. Or even clocks with a date and a "zone" setting (as one state/province should be on the same time system, it would just mean outlying towns will get a few minutes more/less daylight) and it would know on which date the time is UTC+xx:xx.
This is all assuming keeping 24 hours in a day. Maybe we'll move to metric time at the same time;-)
Triple J is my favourite radio station; in fact I only have five radio stations programmed into my car radio and they are all Triple J (national radio station so different frequencies for different areas). They play a lot of new music, and promote bands that would have not otherwise gotten popular. They often play songs months before the mainstream finds them. They also play lots of songs no other radio station in the world would play, uncensored! Some information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_J#Effects_on_l ocal_record_companies_and_radio_stations
What's the point of Daylight Savings? My state doesn't have it (referendum some years ago) and there is plenty of "daylight". Just because people are lazy and don't like getting up before "7am" (or whatever) we'll make them get up an hour earlier by lying about the time?
AU$600/year is "average" Internet. The plan I'm on here is only 512kbps (128 up) with 12GB download quota for $45/month. We're in contact here otherwise I'd churn to a different provider! My other house has full speed ADSL and syncs at 8032kbps and is heller fast. That plan is worth around $80/month (I pay less because my ISP loves me).
10-20c/ep is more than what it would cost them in bandwidth, let alone other costs. An ep would be 350MB which would cost $52.50 going by Telstra's excess rate. Yes there are more realistic bandwidth providers (eg the IXs such as PIPE and WAIX) but still most of the big ISPs don't peer there.
My GGP said "You can enjoy the benefits of "HD"-resolution video content today!" which to me implies full HD resolution, not just a little bit better. Besides, I live in a PAL area so 720x480 would be a downgrade...
Slashdot Mirror
Not in Australia. Pollies here love being satired!
Well it's downloading at about 4KB/s here :( And I'm on cable!
/me also search for spicks and specks vodcast...
I slept my favourite tv night.
What? I seriously thought "referer" was how people in the US spelled "referrer". You guys drop double letters from other words so it makes sense. :) I'm talking about "canceled" looking like a funny version of "cancelled".
OK Tried it in Firefox and it did work (PWNED). Still no "luck" in Opera so I guess I'll keep using it. :)
I have/had accounts with 3 banks (NBA, CBA, WBC), a building society (HBA) and a credit union (CRU), none of them needed Java for Internet Banking. They generally all work fully in Opera on Linux too! Neither of the two items in TFA worked for me and I don't think I have anything special turned on/off to block it.
I am, you insensitive clod!
I did some contract work for a government deptartment. Reinstalling windows involved a Linux boot CD (Suse IIRC) that got an image off the Novell server - this contained a FAT 32 partition and Windows 98 which immediately converted to NTFS, rebooted and setup everything required. A fully working XP system in ~an hour with no intervention other than removing the boot CD (during the image download). Logging in would then setup final items (usually network access issues) and updates would automatically be downloaded and installed. The same image was used for all desktops and laptops. There was an issue with an old boot CD and new laptop which would kernel panic, and old laptops and new CD would not work at all either. But 99% of the time it was seamless.
The serial key was a printout of an email taped to the wall - but we almost never needed it.
I was hired as an extra pair of hands for the update to SP2 late last year. I personally saw SP2 kill two computers, never to recover (HDD died from the stress), plus dozens more that needed reimaging. But there were probably hundreds that worked well.
I've never had rabbit ears "just work". There's always the adjustment to make the screen not a polar bear in a snowstorm. Then the fine-tuning to get it as clear as possible. Then you change channel (to one that uses a different frequency or tower) and you start all over again.
Yeah, well, "G'day" is just a contraction of "Good day". I remember my grade 7 teacher insisted on spelling it "gidday" - that's the only place I've seen it spelt that way. That spelling implies a slightly different pronounciation.
I was making up "hoomor" but I have seen many other words with a long "oo" sound replacing the "u" where it shouldn't, and even other letters. There's a song I've heard on the radio (TripleJ, so not your average radio station) that sampled a speech that mentioned "David Booee" and "Cyndi Looper". I'm assuming they are "David Bowie" and "Cyndi Lauper". But anyway...
But then I grew up in a city called Toowoomba: almost no-one pronounces it correctly unless they've heard someone else say it.
I don't know, but it's a pet hate that so many words sound horrible coming out of the TV. Some that spring to mind include emu, buoy and puma.
I saw the MST3K version of Pumaman, the robots "corrected" the English speakers pronounciation of "puma" to "pooma", and even saw the joke in correcting "human" to "hooman".
It's actually lossy as American English is often horribly mispronounced. ("Hoomor" anyone?)
I listen to DI.FM from a local mirror in Brisbane, Australia. Does me listening count as a broadcast, considering i'm not in the US and my connection doesn't get anywhere near the US? How would they even track the usage in this case? I went to listen this morning (Wednesday 27/06/07 at 9:30AM GMT+1000) and got no music!
Copyright wouldn't apply to a 101 year old record anyway, which means you could indeed play to the public and make copies, etc.
That would be Telstra: A company which sells "broadband" for $30/month which includes 200MB/month transfers (up+down) and 15c/MB excess use. You can get this price on either 8mbit cable (metro) or 256kbit ADSL (around 95% of the country). (And yes, people have had huge bills and Telstra makes them pay) See: http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/isp.cfm/Telstra-BigPond /1.html You can get better deals off other companies, but all must give some money to Telstra (except the very few non-Telstra-cabled areas).
Quickest I've had ADSL installed was 3 days, slowest 21 days. I've had it connected at about 10 different places with 8 different ISPs - all wholesale customers of Telstra.
It's 000 in Australia :P
2 minutes is still very slow! This is my XP1800+ (slowest machine I have currently running) running Ubuntu
/tmp/17mb /tmp/17mb2
$ time dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/17mb bs=1048576 count=17
17+0 records in
17+0 records out
17825792 bytes (18 MB) copied, 8.47535 seconds, 2.1 MB/s
real 0m8.506s
user 0m0.012s
sys 0m8.405s
$ time cp
real 0m0.293s
user 0m0.012s
sys 0m0.224s
Once you learnt all the codes for WP, it was very fast to use. 5.1 even had a menu if you didn't feel like using the F-key overlay. It's a bit like why people still use vi/vim. :-) The keyboard is very quick compared to using the mouse in many cases.
As a business owner, can you afford slower production times while you and your employees learn OO?
Have you used Office 2007? It is very different to previous versions from what I've seen in my occasional use (Boss upgraded to Vista which keeps forgetting the password mid-session to the network shares, among other things). From what I've seen in my several places I've worked no-one uses Word properly anyway.
Deviation from the proscribed spelling and notation will break your code.
:)
Using "proscribed spelling and notation" will break your code. Proscribe means "To denounce or condemn; To prohibit, forbid; To banish or outlaw (a person); To publish the name of (a person) as outlawed."
Was that a typo or illiteracy? I'm assuming you meant "prescribed". It's hard to tell whether to call someone on a mistake if it's a typo or illiteracy or ignorance or bad habits or other!
What was the function that returns 2007 in 2007 but returned 99 in 1999? I always think of that misfeature when I hear the Gorillaz song 19-2000. :) (That was a common Y2K bug, people concatting "19" to a two-digit-year function)
Now that we are heading into winter I know I'm not getting up as early. You say "light until 8pm" well that would be "9pm" in DST. Have you never heard of curtains to keep light out?
;-)
I like the idea of dawn being 00:00, which would mean dusk could be between 12:00 and 16:00 (the further towards the poles the more time in light, but we'll ensure "night" has at least 8 hours for those zones). This idea would require timezones on latitude as well as longitude. And it would require a "gradual DST" which isn't technically impossible, just a lot of ingrained technology would need replacing. It could be possible with GPS receivers. Or even clocks with a date and a "zone" setting (as one state/province should be on the same time system, it would just mean outlying towns will get a few minutes more/less daylight) and it would know on which date the time is UTC+xx:xx.
This is all assuming keeping 24 hours in a day. Maybe we'll move to metric time at the same time
Maybe they could have a promotion like Triple J Unearthed: http://www.triplejunearthed.com/
l ocal_record_companies_and_radio_stations
Triple J is my favourite radio station; in fact I only have five radio stations programmed into my car radio and they are all Triple J (national radio station so different frequencies for different areas). They play a lot of new music, and promote bands that would have not otherwise gotten popular. They often play songs months before the mainstream finds them. They also play lots of songs no other radio station in the world would play, uncensored! Some information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_J#Effects_on_
What's the point of Daylight Savings? My state doesn't have it (referendum some years ago) and there is plenty of "daylight". Just because people are lazy and don't like getting up before "7am" (or whatever) we'll make them get up an hour earlier by lying about the time?
AU$600/year is "average" Internet. The plan I'm on here is only 512kbps (128 up) with 12GB download quota for $45/month. We're in contact here otherwise I'd churn to a different provider! My other house has full speed ADSL and syncs at 8032kbps and is heller fast. That plan is worth around $80/month (I pay less because my ISP loves me).
10-20c/ep is more than what it would cost them in bandwidth, let alone other costs. An ep would be 350MB which would cost $52.50 going by Telstra's excess rate. Yes there are more realistic bandwidth providers (eg the IXs such as PIPE and WAIX) but still most of the big ISPs don't peer there.
Did anyone else get the ad for the Santa Fe on the linked site? Any advertising is good advertising (as Dick Smith always said).
My GGP said "You can enjoy the benefits of "HD"-resolution video content today!" which to me implies full HD resolution, not just a little bit better. Besides, I live in a PAL area so 720x480 would be a downgrade...