Yeah - they're lying, or you were mistaken. They either weren't LED bulbs (probably CFL) or they weren't 60W output. There is currently no commercially available 60W equiv LED bulb for anything like this price.
> it seems like a class-action lawsuit waiting to happen
Yeah.. all the people who's children are lost are really going to try and sue to the phone companies for giving out the last known location of their children without a judge's warrant. Very likely.
I think you've missed the point. The answers to those captchas are needed. If they're not done as part of ReCaptcha then somebody will still have to sit there and do them manually anyway. The OCR software was not able to do it so it HAS to be done by a human or the book won't ever get digitised.
> I never get spam, > Am I missing something here?
Yes. You simply haven't got any SPAM *YET*. It's not you giving it out that you've got to worry about - if anybody you've ever emailed gets a virus, their whole address book could easily be uploaded to the net (since hundreds of viruses are created simply to harvest address books).
One day you WILL get spam at that address and it doesn't take long once it's "out there" for you to get a LOT of spam.
It doesn't know for sure - but it asks multiple people the same CAPTCHA and if enough people (as a percentage) give the same answer, then it gets 'approved' and stored as the correct answer for the word.
> A widescreen is created by taking a normal screen and adding width to it. > A 4:3 version of that 1920x1200 screen you refer to is 1600x1200.
No no NO! - Look at the prices. At any given price point, you get LESS screen area for your money with widescreen monitors:
Instead of 1280x960, you typically only get 1280x800 on a similarly priced wide-screen. Your screen is about the same width but you've lost an inch or two of vertical space! On laptops, this is even worse because it means you get black plastic strips where you would previously have had ACTUAL screen area. If they're going to be black bars when playing movies, I would far rather they were virtual black bars that were ONLY there when viewing movies, rather than physical plastic bars caused by the fact that they've shrunk the screen vertically to make the laptop look more modern! The Dell XPS series is a good example of this. A 4:3 screen would have fitted perfectly, but instead I've got two one inch black strips glued on where my screen should be.
> I'm thinking about getting one of those 3-M privacy filters.
I don't know... People spend a fortune buying expensive LCD screens with a 178 degree viewing angle, and then turn them into a $50 monitor by adding a privacy filter. It's much cheaper to simply stop looking at porn at work.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but the rate of advancement of the GIMP is very slow - which is probably why the vast majority of people still use Photoshop. It's currently nowhere near Photoshop in functionality or reliability and I doubt that will change any time soon. It's OK for editing your holiday pics and retouching photos, but it's got a long way to go before professional designers can adopt it company-wide to produce professional artwork for print.
Your post is currently modded +5 funny, but I don't think it's funny at all but I would rather it was rated +5 insightful. I think your comments should be taken very literally and it scares me that anybody would think that ANY job is worth wasting 4 hours a day of your life commuting to. They should either get a new job, or move closer to their job. I think the grandparent poster probably has their priorities wrong.
> I now have to go trawling back through the code looking for the > place where you created the Range object to find the low and high boundaries of it.
Because right-clicking on "Range" and selecting "go to definition" is just SO HARD. You've clearly never actually used Visual Studio. You NEVER have to trawl though anything using VS.NET it's all done for you with context menu commands or IntelliSense. If you want to cripple yourself by writing.NET code in some other way, then that's your personal choice.
> IN ONE BLOODY PLACE.
Er, you've just said exactly the opposite of that - that you'd prefer it if it was all over the place rather than in a single function. Make your mind up!
It doesn't need 2GB of RAM. It runs fine with 1GB of RAM. People who don't know how Vista works simply assume it needs 2GB because they notice that if you give it 2GB it uses it all. They fail to notice that if you give it 4GB it also uses it all. For some reason, people put lots of RAM in their computer and then hope that all the new RAM will remain free. Vista chooses to use it to speed up your system (mainly by caching). If you have a problem with that, use a less clever OS like Windows XP.
There is already mass confusion, with some hard disk camcorders being labeled just "HD" rather than "HDD". Thankfully most of them are switching to "HDD" as consumers complain.
The worst thing I've seen as recently as today, is still photo (as opposed to movie) cameras which bear the "Full HD 1080p" logo, even though they CANNOT record video. It's simply stating that it has a digital output which can show still images at 1080 line.
> They need a variant of the sport where there are thirty cables, some plugged into various > patch panels at both ends, some at one end only, and some free; your task is to extract > the loose and dangling cables and leave the working ones.
> However, since they fly in flocks, in formation, only the lead bird has the full wind resistance load.
-1, Wrong.
The lead bird has the EASIEST time. As each bird propels itself along, just like a plane it blows air BACKWARDS not forwards into the other birds and slows them down. In zero wind, the birds flying behind the lead bird effectively end up with a small head wind. The birds flying behind the lead bird are also flying in more turbulent air.
It's even worse for aircraft following each other. As you can imagine, a planes engine produces a hell of a back draft on a plane following directly behind - not to mention a whole load of turbulence. If you watch a jet, you can visibly see the con-trail moving backwards as the plane flies - it does not miraculously get dragged forwards. I think you were probably thinking of cars where the opposite is true.
> I take it you didn't understand that we were talking about TRAINS?
Of course I did - I was just having a little joke. I think that was quite obvious from the rest of that paragraph.
> if European cars decelerate in half the distance of American cars, then you're pulling some truly amazing g-forces
OK I was probably exaggerating, but our cars definitely stop a hell of a lot quicker. I read somewhere recently that on average, our UK cars weigh half a ton less than the average American car (HALF A TON!). The American car I had also does HALF the MPG of my current car. It only gets 20MPG and my current car can easily do about 42MPG (both figures US gallons). 20MPG is pathetic!
> Waiting till the last possibly minute to begin braking is NOT a sane practice, in case noone ever told you
Who said I braked at the last minute? I DID stop DESPITE the fact that the car didn't slow anything like as fast as I had expected - so I clearly braked in good time.
I don't really think that there's any doubt that US cars are lot bigger and heavier than european cars. The stats are easily findable on the web and there's a pretty good reason that Europeans refer to American cars as "Yank Tanks".
This seems reasonable to me - the charges are stated IN ADVANCE and you have NO RIGHT to complain about the charges after you receive the item.
I get really annoyed when people complain that I've only spent £2 on postage and they paid me £5. Where exactly do they think that all that bubble wrap came from and the cardboard box it came in which cost me £2.75 from the post office?? You're not paying for *stamps* - you're paying for "postage and packaging". For most parcels, that may involve driving 1 hour to your nearest courier's depot or post office, which costs me about 25p PER MILE just to even GET to the post office.
The postage charges are stated in advance. If you don't like them, then don't buy from them! It's not like they're hidden - they're shown to you on the very same screen where you bid!
Most arguments on eBay seem to result from people agreeing to the terms by bidding, then suddenly changing their mind for no legitimate reason. If you got what you bid for at the price you bid, then you have NO right to complain just because there aren't as many stamps on the box as you expected.
> One car can weigh 100 tons quite easily, much less the whole train.
Yeah but those are usually American cars. In most other countries, the cars only weigh about one ton and can even go round corners and stuff. For this reason Americans have perfectly straight roads and need funny octagonal STOP signs to remind them to come to a complete halt before attempting to turn their vehicle.
In all seriousness, I remember the first time I drove an American car a few years ago, I nearly ploughed though a toll booth at 40MPH on a highway because I hadn't realised they take nearly twice as long to stop as a 'normal' car. I had guessed the engine size was about 1.8 litres as accelerated about the same as my 1.8 Ford Focus, but found when I returned my car 3 weeks later that I'd been driving a 3.0 litre V6 (It was a Buick of some sort - for reference)
> And have you ever wondered how is it possible that simple text messages can jam the system every New Year?
They don't. You're simply assuming that it's text messages jamming the system because you're trying to send a text. It's the VOICE calls that jam the system and prevent you from sending texts - not the other way round. Texts are tiny and take up negligible bandwidth. They are only a few bytes each. Compare that to 9-14KB per SECOND per user for all those New Year calls and texts don't really come into it. They will only account for less than 1% of the traffic the network has to deal with.
What you're saying is equivalent to saying that a site serving a video has been slashdotted because everyone's pinging it to find out why it isn't working. It's not the PINGs that would cause the problem in this instance.
> Development, maintenance and hardware costs must be > covered (service providers don't get the system for free). > Then there is support you need to provide for customers. And billing.
The infrastructure is exactly the same as that used for voice calls. In building the voice network, they DO get the SMS facility for free (or very nearly so).
There is pretty much no reason why SMS and for that matter, data charges are so high. Even if they only charged quarter of what they do now for texts, they would still make a healthy profit on each one. People would probably also write more often and not stick to the 160 character message size so much so they might make a similar amount of money anyway.
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Yeah - they're lying, or you were mistaken. They either weren't LED bulbs (probably CFL) or they weren't 60W output. There is currently no commercially available 60W equiv LED bulb for anything like this price.
Why? IETab doesn't use Gecko, it uses IE. That's the entire point of it.
> I'm sick of this naming phad.
Yeah it's phucking stupid. The stupid phuckwits should take some time to phink of a better name.
> it seems like a class-action lawsuit waiting to happen
Yeah.. all the people who's children are lost are really going to try and sue to the phone companies for giving out the last known location of their children without a judge's warrant. Very likely.
I think you've missed the point. The answers to those captchas are needed. If they're not done as part of ReCaptcha then somebody will still have to sit there and do them manually anyway. The OCR software was not able to do it so it HAS to be done by a human or the book won't ever get digitised.
> I never get spam,
> Am I missing something here?
Yes. You simply haven't got any SPAM *YET*. It's not you giving it out that you've got to worry about - if anybody you've ever emailed gets a virus, their whole address book could easily be uploaded to the net (since hundreds of viruses are created simply to harvest address books).
One day you WILL get spam at that address and it doesn't take long once it's "out there" for you to get a LOT of spam.
It doesn't know for sure - but it asks multiple people the same CAPTCHA and if enough people (as a percentage) give the same answer, then it gets 'approved' and stored as the correct answer for the word.
It wasn't very riviting.
> A widescreen is created by taking a normal screen and adding width to it.
> A 4:3 version of that 1920x1200 screen you refer to is 1600x1200.
No no NO! - Look at the prices. At any given price point, you get LESS screen area for your money with widescreen monitors:
Instead of 1280x960, you typically only get 1280x800 on a similarly priced wide-screen. Your screen is about the same width but you've lost an inch or two of vertical space! On laptops, this is even worse because it means you get black plastic strips where you would previously have had ACTUAL screen area. If they're going to be black bars when playing movies, I would far rather they were virtual black bars that were ONLY there when viewing movies, rather than physical plastic bars caused by the fact that they've shrunk the screen vertically to make the laptop look more modern! The Dell XPS series is a good example of this. A 4:3 screen would have fitted perfectly, but instead I've got two one inch black strips glued on where my screen should be.
> I'm thinking about getting one of those 3-M privacy filters.
I don't know... People spend a fortune buying expensive LCD screens with a 178 degree viewing angle, and then turn them into a $50 monitor by adding a privacy filter. It's much cheaper to simply stop looking at porn at work.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but the rate of advancement of the GIMP is very slow - which is probably why the vast majority of people still use Photoshop. It's currently nowhere near Photoshop in functionality or reliability and I doubt that will change any time soon. It's OK for editing your holiday pics and retouching photos, but it's got a long way to go before professional designers can adopt it company-wide to produce professional artwork for print.
Your post is currently modded +5 funny, but I don't think it's funny at all but I would rather it was rated +5 insightful. I think your comments should be taken very literally and it scares me that anybody would think that ANY job is worth wasting 4 hours a day of your life commuting to. They should either get a new job, or move closer to their job. I think the grandparent poster probably has their priorities wrong.
I think people could do worse than to take a lesson from the mighty Kibo
> I now have to go trawling back through the code looking for the
.NET code in some other way, then that's your personal choice.
> place where you created the Range object to find the low and high boundaries of it.
Because right-clicking on "Range" and selecting "go to definition" is just SO HARD.
You've clearly never actually used Visual Studio. You NEVER have to trawl though anything using VS.NET it's all done for you with context menu commands or IntelliSense. If you want to cripple yourself by writing
> IN ONE BLOODY PLACE.
Er, you've just said exactly the opposite of that - that you'd prefer it if it was all over the place rather than in a single function. Make your mind up!
It doesn't need 2GB of RAM. It runs fine with 1GB of RAM. People who don't know how Vista works simply assume it needs 2GB because they notice that if you give it 2GB it uses it all. They fail to notice that if you give it 4GB it also uses it all. For some reason, people put lots of RAM in their computer and then hope that all the new RAM will remain free. Vista chooses to use it to speed up your system (mainly by caching). If you have a problem with that, use a less clever OS like Windows XP.
> so what the fuck is OSX's problem. according to the apple fanboi's it's the shit?
According to most Windows fanboys it *IS* shit.
There is already mass confusion, with some hard disk camcorders being labeled just "HD" rather than "HDD". Thankfully most of them are switching to "HDD" as consumers complain.
The worst thing I've seen as recently as today, is still photo (as opposed to movie) cameras which bear the "Full HD 1080p" logo, even though they CANNOT record video. It's simply stating that it has a digital output which can show still images at 1080 line.
> They need a variant of the sport where there are thirty cables, some plugged into various
> patch panels at both ends, some at one end only, and some free; your task is to extract
> the loose and dangling cables and leave the working ones.
It's called Network Administration.
This thread relates to Golden Plovers. http://pbc.codehog.co.uk/bhs/pics/200611/golden_plover_flock_19nov06_800l_20a.jpg">They do NOT fly in a V formation - they fly in a very random flock.. Very few small birds fly in a V formation. That tends to be larger birds like geese.
> However, since they fly in flocks, in formation, only the lead bird has the full wind resistance load.
-1, Wrong.
The lead bird has the EASIEST time. As each bird propels itself along, just like a plane it blows air BACKWARDS not forwards into the other birds and slows them down. In zero wind, the birds flying behind the lead bird effectively end up with a small head wind. The birds flying behind the lead bird are also flying in more turbulent air.
It's even worse for aircraft following each other. As you can imagine, a planes engine produces a hell of a back draft on a plane following directly behind - not to mention a whole load of turbulence. If you watch a jet, you can visibly see the con-trail moving backwards as the plane flies - it does not miraculously get dragged forwards. I think you were probably thinking of cars where the opposite is true.
> I take it you didn't understand that we were talking about TRAINS?
Of course I did - I was just having a little joke. I think that was quite obvious from the rest of that paragraph.
> if European cars decelerate in half the distance of American cars, then you're pulling some truly amazing g-forces
OK I was probably exaggerating, but our cars definitely stop a hell of a lot quicker. I read somewhere recently that on average, our UK cars weigh half a ton less than the average American car (HALF A TON!). The American car I had also does HALF the MPG of my current car. It only gets 20MPG and my current car can easily do about 42MPG (both figures US gallons). 20MPG is pathetic!
> Waiting till the last possibly minute to begin braking is NOT a sane practice, in case noone ever told you
Who said I braked at the last minute? I DID stop DESPITE the fact that the car didn't slow anything like as fast as I had expected - so I clearly braked in good time.
I don't really think that there's any doubt that US cars are lot bigger and heavier than european cars. The stats are easily findable on the web and there's a pretty good reason that Europeans refer to American cars as "Yank Tanks".
This seems reasonable to me - the charges are stated IN ADVANCE and you have NO RIGHT to complain about the charges after you receive the item.
I get really annoyed when people complain that I've only spent £2 on postage and they paid me £5. Where exactly do they think that all that bubble wrap came from and the cardboard box it came in which cost me £2.75 from the post office?? You're not paying for *stamps* - you're paying for "postage and packaging". For most parcels, that may involve driving 1 hour to your nearest courier's depot or post office, which costs me about 25p PER MILE just to even GET to the post office.
The postage charges are stated in advance. If you don't like them, then don't buy from them! It's not like they're hidden - they're shown to you on the very same screen where you bid!
Most arguments on eBay seem to result from people agreeing to the terms by bidding, then suddenly changing their mind for no legitimate reason. If you got what you bid for at the price you bid, then you have NO right to complain just because there aren't as many stamps on the box as you expected.
> One car can weigh 100 tons quite easily, much less the whole train.
Yeah but those are usually American cars. In most other countries, the cars only weigh about one ton and can even go round corners and stuff. For this reason Americans have perfectly straight roads and need funny octagonal STOP signs to remind them to come to a complete halt before attempting to turn their vehicle.
In all seriousness, I remember the first time I drove an American car a few years ago, I nearly ploughed though a toll booth at 40MPH on a highway because I hadn't realised they take nearly twice as long to stop as a 'normal' car. I had guessed the engine size was about 1.8 litres as accelerated about the same as my 1.8 Ford Focus, but found when I returned my car 3 weeks later that I'd been driving a 3.0 litre V6 (It was a Buick of some sort - for reference)
> And have you ever wondered how is it possible that simple text messages can jam the system every New Year?
They don't. You're simply assuming that it's text messages jamming the system because you're trying to send a text.
It's the VOICE calls that jam the system and prevent you from sending texts - not the other way round. Texts are tiny and take up negligible bandwidth. They are only a few bytes each. Compare that to 9-14KB per SECOND per user for all those New Year calls and texts don't really come into it. They will only account for less than 1% of the traffic the network has to deal with.
What you're saying is equivalent to saying that a site serving a video has been slashdotted because everyone's pinging it to find out why it isn't working. It's not the PINGs that would cause the problem in this instance.
> Development, maintenance and hardware costs must be
> covered (service providers don't get the system for free).
> Then there is support you need to provide for customers. And billing.
The infrastructure is exactly the same as that used for voice calls.
In building the voice network, they DO get the SMS facility for free (or very nearly so).
There is pretty much no reason why SMS and for that matter, data charges are so high. Even if they only charged quarter of what they do now for texts, they would still make a healthy profit on each one. People would probably also write more often and not stick to the 160 character message size so much so they might make a similar amount of money anyway.