Well, the answers are "maybe (or maybe)", "no" and "I try to, but not too hard":-)
Although summers are quite hot here (around 32C/89.6F), I live on a hilltop where temperatures are somewhat cooler (26C/78.8F). I take no special measures other than putting it standing verticaly on one of its sides (rather than laying on its bottom side) to increase airflow around it. No air conditioners at home (never felt the need of them).
Just for the curious people out there, it's a Conceptronic.
No desert, no third world country (yet). But only ONE WiFi around: mine.
When I first installed my router, about four years ago, I was able to reach the signal from the garage. Now I'm still able to do it. I didn't measure numerically if the signal degraded along the years or not, but for practical purposes the answer is NO: I'm still able to connect from the garage, with the same two "dots" in the "intensity" display.
So, in my case, the signal did not degrade with time. Therefore, I think the neibourghs deployment theory makes sense: taking me as a "control subject" in the experiment, you can say: "The guy with no neighbours suffers no [significative] degradation in the signal intensity".
Obviously those satellites neglected to fly over my garden. Despite my continuous fight, kudzu, weed (not the smokable one) and other wild plants (and even trees) are invading it more and more.
Well, nuts are dry and hard, and (except coconuts) too small, so I think the sensation wouldn't be very pleasant. Orgasm could take hours to reach (if at all possible).
Nice argumentation, man! And it fits to ANY discussion about ANY topic! Did you elaborate it all yourself? Can I copy it? Please put it under CC license!
Well, we are using Twitter to broadcast our Castellers performances, and we know the local and specialised media follow us to get the latest achievements (or failures) as soon as they occur.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, better than explaining in a lot of words I recommend you this video from UNESCO channel in Youtube:
Each group has a "twitter manager" responsible to twit a castle as soon as we finish it, one way or the other (and, just in case someone asks: no, we don't twit them from up there: we need both hands and all the concentration for the castle!)
Of course! One thing is a good coffee, which is dark brown, creamy, aromatic and (to my taste) with a hint of sourness, and the other is a black, bitter coffee which usually hides the lack of real aroma with a strong bitterness and smell of "toasted" more than roasted.
So, finally UKers got decent coffee? That's good news!
But... do you agree that our Anonymous Coward above is an undercover agent? No geek would claim that "Caffeine is bad" or compare it with alcohol!
Okay, pal. Where did you come from? RIAA? MPAA? SGAE? Spit it! You are obviously somebody from the Other Side in an undercover job, trying to bomb/. from inside. Definitely NOT a geek.
In a related note, I drink 2-3 espressos a day, just because I like the strong taste of the carefully roasted beans. And I'm not addicted at all: when I travel to non-coffee countries like England or Japan (we continental Europeans don't call that crap "coffee" but rather "mopping water"), I have no side effects at all: I just live without coffee for two or more weeks.
The U.S. was in the "no coffee" list a few years ago, but looks like some areas are finally discovering REAL coffee (i.e. espresso).
Guys, guys... He did it intentionally as part of the IRONY! If he were really mistaking pi for e, he wouldn't be able to type the word "slashdot" in his browser to access this website. His message here (not that I necessarily concur) is: "User 2.7182 is so stupid that he put this number as his username believing it was pi!"
If I recall correctly, turkeys are omnivorous. They eat grain and bugs from the ground. Probably the "vegetarian turkey" label makes sense, meaning "this turkey has not been fed with any bugs/worms".
Despite the CBS moronic policy on Star Trek, Roddenberry's legacy will prevail! The suits there think we still live in 20th. Century! (no Fox intended)
3) Haiti was just an example. In theory NPOs send stuff to places where they are needed, so they should take care of deciding whether Haiti or (let's say) Madagascar, but the important thing is, they need to have something to send.
I agree. Trash them, same as you trashed your {2|3|4}86 boxes and your {MSDOS|WIN31} floppy disks.
An alternative is to donate them to some non-profit organisation which sends them to third-world countries; imagine for example how a Haiti school could benefit from some wifi equipment (provided, of course, the NPO also gets a few computers for them!)
Sorry man, but you just perpetrated a cultural faux pas. In my|our home country, it's Jordi. Period. We Catalans (and I'm pretty sure 7prime is Catalan, confirma'm-ho si llegeixes això), "Jordi" is a VERY VERY common name and the pronounciation is identical to that of "Geordi", so we all trekkies|trekkers here share the tongue-in-cheek joke of calling him "Jordi LaForge". Incidentally: "Jordi" is the Catalan for "George", and as you probably know (if not, please turn in your geek card at the door), the character of Geordi LaForge was named after a blind black kid named George LaForge. So, everything matches. Consistency check passed.
Well, I was hired to maintain the OS/2 company file server; no sweat, since I was quite familiar with OS/2. When I showed up, they said: "Oh, by the way, we also have a penguin server you'll have to take care of; its admin guy is in the States for a couple of months". My reply was: "Waitaminute... what is a 'penguin' server?" Of course the guy had adopted the "X11 in servers is for sissies" policy, so for two months I was frantically browsing man pages in the morning and (also) frantically sending e-mails to the admin guy in a timezone six hours away from ours to ask the simplest things. And, believe it or not, the second day I remembered a silly joke I had read somewhere and not understood: "man woman". From there I discovered the most useful command in Linux.
Nowadays I am the main admin of six happy corporate penguins, plus two at/home/tirs, er... I mean, at home.
I have to say, you are 100% right. When my 72-year-old mom said: "I am fed up with this ever-failing Windows. Isn't there anything else people are using for serious?" I switched her to Ubuntu and she never complained again: checks and sends mail, browses the web, and now even uses The Gimp to retouch the pictures she takes with her new digital camera! No hassles, no problems, no outages... she is delighted. After two years, she doesn't even want to hear about Windows.
I currently work as a internationalization advisor. I make sure software complies with linguistic, cultural and even political standards required to be marketed in each country. Companies hire me when they say: "We want to sell our software in [insert list of countries here]; what should we do to ensure a smooth translation and localisation process?" Then I have to explain about how the date format varies from country to country and how the week starts in different days, about national characters and codepages, about writing right-to-left, and even about things like "if you have a drop-down list of countries and Taiwan is there, you cannot use the label 'Select country' for that list if you are selling to China". It's a fascinating experience, and thanks to this job I have had the opportunity of meeting people from everywhere around the world and working in very nice international teams (I remember my first task abroad: it was a team of people from 27 countries!) Despite what it may seem, no lots-of-languages knowledge is required; for me, only English (I'm native Catalan/Spanish speaker) and then some clues and basic knowledge about how a language is built and which special needs it has for localisation (i.e. Arabic is written right-to-left, Japanese has three alphabets, Russian has declination cases, etc). Also, no advanced programming skills are necessary; just a very basic knowledge of the most common languages (for example, I do not know Java or JSP but I know what "i18n taglib" means, and I can recommend it to the customer).
A fascinating work, believe me. I quit programming ten years ago because of this job, and I do not regret (of course I still do some programming for fun!)
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For sure they will not understand what you say. The more different from English, the better. For example, Arabic is a good option.
Oh, wait...
Well, the answers are "maybe (or maybe)", "no" and "I try to, but not too hard" :-)
Although summers are quite hot here (around 32C/89.6F), I live on a hilltop where temperatures are somewhat cooler (26C/78.8F). I take no special measures other than putting it standing verticaly on one of its sides (rather than laying on its bottom side) to increase airflow around it. No air conditioners at home (never felt the need of them).
Just for the curious people out there, it's a Conceptronic.
No desert, no third world country (yet). But only ONE WiFi around: mine.
When I first installed my router, about four years ago, I was able to reach the signal from the garage. Now I'm still able to do it. I didn't measure numerically if the signal degraded along the years or not, but for practical purposes the answer is NO: I'm still able to connect from the garage, with the same two "dots" in the "intensity" display.
So, in my case, the signal did not degrade with time. Therefore, I think the neibourghs deployment theory makes sense: taking me as a "control subject" in the experiment, you can say: "The guy with no neighbours suffers no [significative] degradation in the signal intensity".
Obviously those satellites neglected to fly over my garden. Despite my continuous fight, kudzu, weed (not the smokable one) and other wild plants (and even trees) are invading it more and more.
Well, nuts are dry and hard, and (except coconuts) too small, so I think the sensation wouldn't be very pleasant. Orgasm could take hours to reach (if at all possible).
Nice argumentation, man! And it fits to ANY discussion about ANY topic! Did you elaborate it all yourself? Can I copy it? Please put it under CC license!
Well, we are using Twitter to broadcast our Castellers performances, and we know the local and specialised media follow us to get the latest achievements (or failures) as soon as they occur.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, better than explaining in a lot of words I recommend you this video from UNESCO channel in Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iSHfrmGdyo
Each group has a "twitter manager" responsible to twit a castle as soon as we finish it, one way or the other (and, just in case someone asks: no, we don't twit them from up there: we need both hands and all the concentration for the castle!)
Of course! One thing is a good coffee, which is dark brown, creamy, aromatic and (to my taste) with a hint of sourness, and the other is a black, bitter coffee which usually hides the lack of real aroma with a strong bitterness and smell of "toasted" more than roasted.
So, finally UKers got decent coffee? That's good news!
But... do you agree that our Anonymous Coward above is an undercover agent? No geek would claim that "Caffeine is bad" or compare it with alcohol!
Okay, pal. Where did you come from? RIAA? MPAA? SGAE? Spit it! /. from inside. Definitely NOT a geek.
You are obviously somebody from the Other Side in an undercover job, trying to bomb
In a related note, I drink 2-3 espressos a day, just because I like the strong taste of the carefully roasted beans. And I'm not addicted at all: when I travel to non-coffee countries like England or Japan (we continental Europeans don't call that crap "coffee" but rather "mopping water"), I have no side effects at all: I just live without coffee for two or more weeks.
The U.S. was in the "no coffee" list a few years ago, but looks like some areas are finally discovering REAL coffee (i.e. espresso).
Guys, guys... He did it intentionally as part of the IRONY! If he were really mistaking pi for e, he wouldn't be able to type the word "slashdot" in his browser to access this website.
His message here (not that I necessarily concur) is: "User 2.7182 is so stupid that he put this number as his username believing it was pi!"
If I recall correctly, turkeys are omnivorous. They eat grain and bugs from the ground.
Probably the "vegetarian turkey" label makes sense, meaning "this turkey has not been fed with any bugs/worms".
Despite the CBS moronic policy on Star Trek, Roddenberry's legacy will prevail!
The suits there think we still live in 20th. Century! (no Fox intended)
KA'PLAH!
[...] a human, I'm not ashamed to be one.
NO? Not even a little bit?
Dude, where's your dignity?
...you insensitive Google clods!
(Yes, I am THAT old).
Sorry man, but your use of the "f" word is totally inadequate in this conversation. Let me correct you:
How the fsck is he supposed to store 80 GB files on a filesystem that maxes out at 4 GB?
Much more in-context, eh?
Hah! In my company we call it "NoTeFíeS" (for non Spanish-speaking people: "Don'tTrustIt").
1) Barracks.
2) Everything, each thing, counts and helps.
3) Haiti was just an example. In theory NPOs send stuff to places where they are needed, so they should take care of deciding whether Haiti or (let's say) Madagascar, but the important thing is, they need to have something to send.
Yes I do. Did you really read my message?
I agree. Trash them, same as you trashed your {2|3|4}86 boxes and your {MSDOS|WIN31} floppy disks.
An alternative is to donate them to some non-profit organisation which sends them to third-world countries; imagine for example how a Haiti school could benefit from some wifi equipment (provided, of course, the NPO also gets a few computers for them!)
...especially on my 2GB USB drive.
Sorry man, but you just perpetrated a cultural faux pas.
In my|our home country, it's Jordi. Period. We Catalans (and I'm pretty sure 7prime is Catalan, confirma'm-ho si llegeixes això), "Jordi" is a VERY VERY common name and the pronounciation is identical to that of "Geordi", so we all trekkies|trekkers here share the tongue-in-cheek joke of calling him "Jordi LaForge".
Incidentally: "Jordi" is the Catalan for "George", and as you probably know (if not, please turn in your geek card at the door), the character of Geordi LaForge was named after a blind black kid named George LaForge. So, everything matches. Consistency check passed.
Well, I was hired to maintain the OS/2 company file server; no sweat, since I was quite familiar with OS/2. When I showed up, they said: "Oh, by the way, we also have a penguin server you'll have to take care of; its admin guy is in the States for a couple of months". My reply was: "Waitaminute... what is a 'penguin' server?"
Of course the guy had adopted the "X11 in servers is for sissies" policy, so for two months I was frantically browsing man pages in the morning and (also) frantically sending e-mails to the admin guy in a timezone six hours away from ours to ask the simplest things. And, believe it or not, the second day I remembered a silly joke I had read somewhere and not understood: "man woman". From there I discovered the most useful command in Linux.
Nowadays I am the main admin of six happy corporate penguins, plus two at /home/tirs, er... I mean, at home.
P.S: X11 in servers IS for sissies.
I have to say, you are 100% right. When my 72-year-old mom said: "I am fed up with this ever-failing Windows. Isn't there anything else people are using for serious?" I switched her to Ubuntu and she never complained again: checks and sends mail, browses the web, and now even uses The Gimp to retouch the pictures she takes with her new digital camera! No hassles, no problems, no outages... she is delighted. After two years, she doesn't even want to hear about Windows.
Where is the white-on-teal text to prevent me from reading this cr*p?
I currently work as a internationalization advisor. I make sure software complies with linguistic, cultural and even political standards required to be marketed in each country. Companies hire me when they say: "We want to sell our software in [insert list of countries here]; what should we do to ensure a smooth translation and localisation process?"
Then I have to explain about how the date format varies from country to country and how the week starts in different days, about national characters and codepages, about writing right-to-left, and even about things like "if you have a drop-down list of countries and Taiwan is there, you cannot use the label 'Select country' for that list if you are selling to China".
It's a fascinating experience, and thanks to this job I have had the opportunity of meeting people from everywhere around the world and working in very nice international teams (I remember my first task abroad: it was a team of people from 27 countries!)
Despite what it may seem, no lots-of-languages knowledge is required; for me, only English (I'm native Catalan/Spanish speaker) and then some clues and basic knowledge about how a language is built and which special needs it has for localisation (i.e. Arabic is written right-to-left, Japanese has three alphabets, Russian has declination cases, etc). Also, no advanced programming skills are necessary; just a very basic knowledge of the most common languages (for example, I do not know Java or JSP but I know what "i18n taglib" means, and I can recommend it to the customer).
A fascinating work, believe me. I quit programming ten years ago because of this job, and I do not regret (of course I still do some programming for fun!)