It was $1B for the new satellite, $1B in profit, and $1.5B in kickbacks to the politicians. The replacement is going to cost the government $4B even though it will only be $0.5B to build. The cost savings and extra billing will be split evening between profit taking and kickbacks.
I hate two things about the new version of the mouse. It wouldn't be so bad to have the port on the bottom except that you don't get the warning to charge the mouse until it's almost dead (as in it doesn't make it through the rest of the day for me). If the warning came with 25% charge left or something higher than what it currently does then I'd have more time to charge it. I'm terrible at checking how much charge is remaining. The older version with two AA batteries wasn't that bad because I used rechargeable batteries and I always had some ready.
The other thing I hate about the new mouse is there isn't an easy way to clean out any hairs that get in near the sensor. The previous version had the door to change the batteries which gave access to clean the area where the LED and sensor are. I find that cat hair gets trapped in that area quite easily and if it gets into the right place the mouse will stop responding. Without the door it's more of a hassle to clean that area out. Tweezers help but whoever designed the new version never had to worry about cleaning the sensor out.
Most Europeans would prefer to have the UK in the EU but overall they aren't overly excited about Brexit. It's not part of their lives.
In the UK there are three factions in the Labour Party and each one has a vision for post-Brexit, each of them not compatible with the others. This is causing the government to stall in the negotiations. It also doesn't help that the main people in charge of Brexit think that they can choose options, such as free movement of goods, like a buffet and ignore the the options they dislike, free movement of people, while the EU insists it's an all or nothing affair. This is leading to what we've seen recently where you have Prime Minister May offering up a bunch of vague promises in a speech recently only to have the EU reply back immediately with a highly detailed document many hundreds of pages long. It's not that the EU governments want the UK to leave but they are holding the UK to their triggering of Article 50 and doing so with remarkable efficiency.
The EU has had a number of crises in the recent past and they really don't want Brexit dragging out any longer than required. Additionally, if the UK comes out of this with what they really want (an exemption of the main principles that not even Norway received) then other countries are going to try and get the same deal.
The problem is that I don't want to know that I can't return it when I go to return it. If the retailer isn't going to take it back then run the checks when I go to buy the item(s) and inform me at the time of purchase. Then I'll make the decision to buy it or not based on the fact that I can't return it. But as things stand I'm making a purchase, a contract, with the understanding that I can return the item according to the store policy. The store should not be able to change that policy when I go to make use of that policy.
Also, the store should have to give an ID number so that people can look at their report for free before making a purchase, not after being refused a return.
I was exchanging a number of lengthy emails (about 20 each) with someone with from China. After about 15 messages each I found out that they didn't speak English and they were using translation software. The Chinese software is so good that I didn't even think it was being used.
As was pointed out by others you can remove sites with -site: but it would be handy if Google would let you set up some parameters that always get passed to searches (unless turned off with a checkbox near the search entry). This way you wouldn't have to enter in -site:getty.com if you always wanted to exclude Getty from your image searches. I'm imagining preferences for each type of search (main, image, news,...).
When counties are looking to modernize they take a lax view of the IP in other countries. As it reaches the state of the art for the day and starts to push the boundaries then they will respect IP rights as they will want theirs respected. Eventually China will become a leader in pushing their IP protection onto other countries. This is quite a while off but it will happen. The US has gone through these stages, ignoring the IP of British companies when the US was trying to build up it's manufacturing base. But I guess what's good for the US isn't good for others especially when what is being talked about is the voluntary transfer of IP to China by US companies. Nobody is forcing them to enter the Chinese market and hand over their IP.
Or make the food for delivery in a cheaper place than a high-rent kitchen of the original restaurant. Find some non-retail place a few blocks away from the restaurant and set up the delivery kitchen there. Maybe even do some prep for the restaurant kitchen there too. Rent will be cheaper and will allow you to create more delivery meals. This would lower the per meal costs and increase the profitability.
At least they get something in the water. Canada issued contracts for new ships years ago and the shipyards still haven't started welding metal yet. It's another case of trying to keep the yards in business over building the proper ships for the Navy. We should have had the basic ship (hull, structures, engines, etc) built in a country that specializes in ship building such as South Korea and then brought them back to kit them out with all of the specialized equipment (RADAR, SONAR, weapons, communications, etc). We could have had ships in service by now.
I know that Linus Entertainment lets you buy albums, and songs, from the artists that they manage in FLAC format. They don't have a huge number of artists compared to the big production companies but there are some known Canadians. Every December they have 12 days in which they give an album a day away in digital format (FLAC/MP3).
If it doesn't give you the option of closing the window can't you kill the process with the process manager or whatever Microsoft calls it (I've been away from Windows for a long time I've forgotten)? That's what I used to do when the situation came up but that was on XP so things have probably changed.
As for Office, you don't have to upgrade right away. You only have to upgrade when the people you work with upgrade and can never remember to save in an earlier version because Microsoft tends to make a new format with each version that is incompatible with earlier ones even though only the UI really changes.
You said that you could grab by the buttons as well, just not by the input fields, which I have no idea what the hell that means. On the Mac there is the title bar of the window and when you want to move the window you just click on anything that isn't a button or field on the bar and move the window while holding down the mouse button. Just like you saying except for the buttons.
My point is that if the title bar gets congested with buttons, input fields (to let you enter an URL) then you have to break the concentration on your in order to use the UI. If you look at Safari on the Mac you can see that it has a number of items on the title bar and it places any icons for extensions there. Firefox on the Mac gets rid of the title bar completely and just has the row of tabs. It places the buttons to close, minimize, and maximize the window there. Once you have a lot of tabs open it's going to be very difficult to move the window.
I don't know what you consider to be costly but they do tend to have a lot of upfront costs too considering a large nuclear plant is probably in the order of at least $15B to $20B. The clean-up costs are supposed to be collected during the operation of the plant but never enough seem to have been collected. At first that could be understood because they were unknown but then it's regulators letting the companies get away with not putting away enough money. If a government really wanted to enforce the collection they would just write a law that says the company would have to contribute the amount set by the regulator into a trust account that they can't access until the plant shuts down or else they lose their operating license. You have to always plan for it to go offline for any reason anyways.
How does setting the input focus help you move the window around? If you fill up the area that used to be the title bar with a lot of other junk then you limit the area that you can click on in order to move the window. If it's really crowded then you have to focus on where to click taking your mind off of your current task. The UI shouldn't get in the way of your work.
The US, and Canada, used to have a robust system of rail networks. The decline of rail has seen the railroads rip up large tracts of their networks because it was too expensive to maintain. Some of the lines have been turned into recreational trails once the tracks were taken up.
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The only silver lining is that the coal won't be shipped through/by the Great Barrier Reef to be burned in India or China.
It was $1B for the new satellite, $1B in profit, and $1.5B in kickbacks to the politicians. The replacement is going to cost the government $4B even though it will only be $0.5B to build. The cost savings and extra billing will be split evening between profit taking and kickbacks.
I hate two things about the new version of the mouse. It wouldn't be so bad to have the port on the bottom except that you don't get the warning to charge the mouse until it's almost dead (as in it doesn't make it through the rest of the day for me). If the warning came with 25% charge left or something higher than what it currently does then I'd have more time to charge it. I'm terrible at checking how much charge is remaining. The older version with two AA batteries wasn't that bad because I used rechargeable batteries and I always had some ready.
The other thing I hate about the new mouse is there isn't an easy way to clean out any hairs that get in near the sensor. The previous version had the door to change the batteries which gave access to clean the area where the LED and sensor are. I find that cat hair gets trapped in that area quite easily and if it gets into the right place the mouse will stop responding. Without the door it's more of a hassle to clean that area out. Tweezers help but whoever designed the new version never had to worry about cleaning the sensor out.
Most Europeans would prefer to have the UK in the EU but overall they aren't overly excited about Brexit. It's not part of their lives.
In the UK there are three factions in the Labour Party and each one has a vision for post-Brexit, each of them not compatible with the others. This is causing the government to stall in the negotiations. It also doesn't help that the main people in charge of Brexit think that they can choose options, such as free movement of goods, like a buffet and ignore the the options they dislike, free movement of people, while the EU insists it's an all or nothing affair. This is leading to what we've seen recently where you have Prime Minister May offering up a bunch of vague promises in a speech recently only to have the EU reply back immediately with a highly detailed document many hundreds of pages long. It's not that the EU governments want the UK to leave but they are holding the UK to their triggering of Article 50 and doing so with remarkable efficiency.
The EU has had a number of crises in the recent past and they really don't want Brexit dragging out any longer than required. Additionally, if the UK comes out of this with what they really want (an exemption of the main principles that not even Norway received) then other countries are going to try and get the same deal.
Do you know how I got that?
By buying one of the first sex dolls on the market?
The problem is that I don't want to know that I can't return it when I go to return it. If the retailer isn't going to take it back then run the checks when I go to buy the item(s) and inform me at the time of purchase. Then I'll make the decision to buy it or not based on the fact that I can't return it. But as things stand I'm making a purchase, a contract, with the understanding that I can return the item according to the store policy. The store should not be able to change that policy when I go to make use of that policy.
Also, the store should have to give an ID number so that people can look at their report for free before making a purchase, not after being refused a return.
I was exchanging a number of lengthy emails (about 20 each) with someone with from China. After about 15 messages each I found out that they didn't speak English and they were using translation software. The Chinese software is so good that I didn't even think it was being used.
As was pointed out by others you can remove sites with -site: but it would be handy if Google would let you set up some parameters that always get passed to searches (unless turned off with a checkbox near the search entry). This way you wouldn't have to enter in -site:getty.com if you always wanted to exclude Getty from your image searches. I'm imagining preferences for each type of search (main, image, news, ...).
When counties are looking to modernize they take a lax view of the IP in other countries. As it reaches the state of the art for the day and starts to push the boundaries then they will respect IP rights as they will want theirs respected. Eventually China will become a leader in pushing their IP protection onto other countries. This is quite a while off but it will happen. The US has gone through these stages, ignoring the IP of British companies when the US was trying to build up it's manufacturing base. But I guess what's good for the US isn't good for others especially when what is being talked about is the voluntary transfer of IP to China by US companies. Nobody is forcing them to enter the Chinese market and hand over their IP.
Or make the food for delivery in a cheaper place than a high-rent kitchen of the original restaurant. Find some non-retail place a few blocks away from the restaurant and set up the delivery kitchen there. Maybe even do some prep for the restaurant kitchen there too. Rent will be cheaper and will allow you to create more delivery meals. This would lower the per meal costs and increase the profitability.
I don't think his ego could handle too many dislikes.
At least they get something in the water. Canada issued contracts for new ships years ago and the shipyards still haven't started welding metal yet. It's another case of trying to keep the yards in business over building the proper ships for the Navy. We should have had the basic ship (hull, structures, engines, etc) built in a country that specializes in ship building such as South Korea and then brought them back to kit them out with all of the specialized equipment (RADAR, SONAR, weapons, communications, etc). We could have had ships in service by now.
No imagination. Put the wind mills on top of the oil rigs and you can have both! /s
I know that Linus Entertainment lets you buy albums, and songs, from the artists that they manage in FLAC format. They don't have a huge number of artists compared to the big production companies but there are some known Canadians. Every December they have 12 days in which they give an album a day away in digital format (FLAC/MP3).
It'll also help with the trade deficits.
If it doesn't give you the option of closing the window can't you kill the process with the process manager or whatever Microsoft calls it (I've been away from Windows for a long time I've forgotten)? That's what I used to do when the situation came up but that was on XP so things have probably changed.
As for Office, you don't have to upgrade right away. You only have to upgrade when the people you work with upgrade and can never remember to save in an earlier version because Microsoft tends to make a new format with each version that is incompatible with earlier ones even though only the UI really changes.
When everyone replaces their bug-ridden Intel chips with new Intel chips that are ridden with as-of-yet unidentified bugs.
You said that you could grab by the buttons as well, just not by the input fields, which I have no idea what the hell that means. On the Mac there is the title bar of the window and when you want to move the window you just click on anything that isn't a button or field on the bar and move the window while holding down the mouse button. Just like you saying except for the buttons.
My point is that if the title bar gets congested with buttons, input fields (to let you enter an URL) then you have to break the concentration on your in order to use the UI. If you look at Safari on the Mac you can see that it has a number of items on the title bar and it places any icons for extensions there. Firefox on the Mac gets rid of the title bar completely and just has the row of tabs. It places the buttons to close, minimize, and maximize the window there. Once you have a lot of tabs open it's going to be very difficult to move the window.
That's hardware, I'm a software guy.
I don't know what you consider to be costly but they do tend to have a lot of upfront costs too considering a large nuclear plant is probably in the order of at least $15B to $20B. The clean-up costs are supposed to be collected during the operation of the plant but never enough seem to have been collected. At first that could be understood because they were unknown but then it's regulators letting the companies get away with not putting away enough money. If a government really wanted to enforce the collection they would just write a law that says the company would have to contribute the amount set by the regulator into a trust account that they can't access until the plant shuts down or else they lose their operating license. You have to always plan for it to go offline for any reason anyways.
That'll only happen when a corporation can have an IQ of less than 60.
Maybe they are smarter and don't bring their devices on deployment to missions requiring secret clearance.
How does setting the input focus help you move the window around? If you fill up the area that used to be the title bar with a lot of other junk then you limit the area that you can click on in order to move the window. If it's really crowded then you have to focus on where to click taking your mind off of your current task. The UI shouldn't get in the way of your work.
So you are happy to give up your freedom for a decent mobile network connection? Doesn't seem like much when others have given up their lives for it.
The US, and Canada, used to have a robust system of rail networks. The decline of rail has seen the railroads rip up large tracts of their networks because it was too expensive to maintain. Some of the lines have been turned into recreational trails once the tracks were taken up.