I am pretty sure that you confuse the cause with the effect. I.e. 80% of the PCs on sale in shops are laptops these days because laptops sell better these days.
When sales of laptops have only just overtaken desktops, yet the shelves are already 80% full with laptops, it's pretty clear who is driving the market - and it isn't the customers.
I have a number of PCMCIA devices I've collected over the years - a SCSI adapter, two or three modems, a couple of WiFi cards, an ethernet card and a PHS data card. But they don't fit into the last two laptops I've owned, apparently the manufacturers decided to switch wholesale to a new PCI Express based standard for which it is still next to impossible to find any cards for. The only cards I've seen have been ethernet cards, which most laptops have built in these days.
So show the official English version by default with a link to "Click here to read an unofficial translation in your language". As long as the English version is presented as the definitive license, and the translation is presented as informational only, there shouldn't be a problem.
I don't know if the 1989 laureate would be eligible for selection again, since he has already been honoured with the prize. Perhaps they are more worried about a leader of some other ethnic group, lest their receipt of the award draw the world's attention to the fact that the Tibetans aren't the only persecuted ethnic group in China.
Indeed, the recent EU decision seems to be just the 10 year extension beyond December 2009 referred to in this article from 2001, allowing traders to continue using both sets of units together.
A lot of shorter distances are given in metres too. I remember a few years back coming across a sign on the canal towpath near the centre of Birmingham that said: "Wolverhampton 12m", then below that "Birmingham University 500m".
I must admit, I didn't follow that story closely, but my understanding was that the EU permission was to allow retailers to continue displaying both metric and imperial measures, and to continue to allow the exceptions that currently exist for pints and miles.
Oops, just checked a selection on my desk myself, and it seems the fonts are still serif, they've just toned them down to be more subtle than the traditional Times style serifs. Wired magazine does use sans-serif fonts in some sections, but the longer articles are using serif fonts.
Go down to your local newsagent, and look at the print in a selection of magazines and newspapers. The majority of magazines, and even a good proportion of newspapers use sans-serif fonts these days. They are easier to read, not just on screen, but in print too.
High fever is one of the side effects they tell you to expect (in something like 1 in 10 cases). After 1 week for the measles part of the vaccine, or 3 weeks for the mumps. If there are no other symptoms, there is nothing to worry about - certainly better than a bought of mumps as an adult male, or rubella as a pregnant mother later in life.
If there were a correlation to be found, then the epidemiologists would be able to find it just based on the fact that a significant number of children came in with cases of hives shortly after coming in for their MMRs.
How are they going to find that correlation if they fail to record it?
Not that I'm saying there's a link, but my son suddenly started suffering Cold Urticaria right after having his second MMR jab. When we saw the doctor about it, I mentioned the vaccination as a possible trigger and the doctor immediately launched into a defence of MMR without recording it (she wrote down everything else I mentioned). While I'm aware that the previous arguments about links to autism were based on poor use of statistics, I did find it strange that the NHS is not interested in recording such incidents so that they can do proper statistical analysis and find any real links that exist.
Instead of the antiquated mag stripe cards, how about if your bank upgraded to ISO standard smart cards along with the rest of the world. Then not only do you get a card with a random number generator built in, but public key encryption as well.
Barclays ran trials 2 or 3 years ago where they sent different authentication devices out to small groups of customers. The outcome was that they chose offline card readers, which are now being rolled out at all UK banks as some sort of standard - expect to start seeing them used beyond online banking once all banks have finished deploying them.
My bank requires it for every payment - even previously set up ones. It also requires it to be used when you're changing personal details (such as email address, or contact number) online.
Better would be an ATM card reader with builtin PIN keypad (so the pin doesn't even reach the possibly compromised computer).
One of my banks uses just that. The device does not connect to the PC, so there is no chance of compromise through the network. It uses the smartcard in the ATM card to sign transactions - consisting of a transaction token that the bank gives me and the value of the transaction - outputting a number which I have to enter to authorize that specific transaction.
My other bank sends me an alphanumeric session token via SMS whenever I want to do more than just look at my statements in my online banking, and asks for random digits from that and a second alphanumeric code that is printed on a card they gave me when I signed up for internet banking.
My thoughts exactly. Investors expect to make significant multiples in return for taking fairly large risks on startups. The business model of selling support and custom development to customers is a low margin, stable business model with no real startup costs that would justify investors getting involved.
I used to work for a company that made an MVC framework of sorts. We had conditionals fairly early on, but did without iterators in the view for a long time. Our own developers didn't miss them - there were better ways of dealing with sets of data than iterating through them - but the customers could not get out of the procedural programmer mindset and eventually we gave in and added iterators.
What was the European Council doing passing legislation? They are not supposed to have legislative powers, they get together a couple of times a year to propose policy direction for the Parliament and Commission to follow.
Right, but that would not have had an effect in this case, since the Commission rubber stamped the Parliament's decision, and it was the European Council (made up of the elected heads of member states) that vetoed it.
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When sales of laptops have only just overtaken desktops, yet the shelves are already 80% full with laptops, it's pretty clear who is driving the market - and it isn't the customers.
Yes, you can get them online, but major computer stores don't stock any of them, despite selling more laptops than desktops these days.
I have a number of PCMCIA devices I've collected over the years - a SCSI adapter, two or three modems, a couple of WiFi cards, an ethernet card and a PHS data card. But they don't fit into the last two laptops I've owned, apparently the manufacturers decided to switch wholesale to a new PCI Express based standard for which it is still next to impossible to find any cards for. The only cards I've seen have been ethernet cards, which most laptops have built in these days.
I don't suppose it has anything to do with the fact that at least 80% of the PCs on sale in shops are laptops these days.
So show the official English version by default with a link to "Click here to read an unofficial translation in your language". As long as the English version is presented as the definitive license, and the translation is presented as informational only, there shouldn't be a problem.
I don't know if the 1989 laureate would be eligible for selection again, since he has already been honoured with the prize. Perhaps they are more worried about a leader of some other ethnic group, lest their receipt of the award draw the world's attention to the fact that the Tibetans aren't the only persecuted ethnic group in China.
As long as they don't start making nuclear missiles in the shape of a chair, I think we're safe.
Indeed, the recent EU decision seems to be just the 10 year extension beyond December 2009 referred to in this article from 2001, allowing traders to continue using both sets of units together.
A lot of shorter distances are given in metres too. I remember a few years back coming across a sign on the canal towpath near the centre of Birmingham that said: "Wolverhampton 12m", then below that "Birmingham University 500m".
I must admit, I didn't follow that story closely, but my understanding was that the EU permission was to allow retailers to continue displaying both metric and imperial measures, and to continue to allow the exceptions that currently exist for pints and miles.
Oops, just checked a selection on my desk myself, and it seems the fonts are still serif, they've just toned them down to be more subtle than the traditional Times style serifs. Wired magazine does use sans-serif fonts in some sections, but the longer articles are using serif fonts.
Go down to your local newsagent, and look at the print in a selection of magazines and newspapers. The majority of magazines, and even a good proportion of newspapers use sans-serif fonts these days. They are easier to read, not just on screen, but in print too.
When I was outside Omiya station recently, they seemed to be showing 10 second snippets of live baseball between the ads to entice people to watch.
Thats probably that well known animal porn site "International Wildlife Fund". You want the other IWF.
How are they going to find that correlation if they fail to record it?
Not that I'm saying there's a link, but my son suddenly started suffering Cold Urticaria right after having his second MMR jab. When we saw the doctor about it, I mentioned the vaccination as a possible trigger and the doctor immediately launched into a defence of MMR without recording it (she wrote down everything else I mentioned). While I'm aware that the previous arguments about links to autism were based on poor use of statistics, I did find it strange that the NHS is not interested in recording such incidents so that they can do proper statistical analysis and find any real links that exist.
Instead of the antiquated mag stripe cards, how about if your bank upgraded to ISO standard smart cards along with the rest of the world. Then not only do you get a card with a random number generator built in, but public key encryption as well.
Barclays ran trials 2 or 3 years ago where they sent different authentication devices out to small groups of customers. The outcome was that they chose offline card readers, which are now being rolled out at all UK banks as some sort of standard - expect to start seeing them used beyond online banking once all banks have finished deploying them.
My bank requires it for every payment - even previously set up ones. It also requires it to be used when you're changing personal details (such as email address, or contact number) online.
One of my banks uses just that. The device does not connect to the PC, so there is no chance of compromise through the network. It uses the smartcard in the ATM card to sign transactions - consisting of a transaction token that the bank gives me and the value of the transaction - outputting a number which I have to enter to authorize that specific transaction.
My other bank sends me an alphanumeric session token via SMS whenever I want to do more than just look at my statements in my online banking, and asks for random digits from that and a second alphanumeric code that is printed on a card they gave me when I signed up for internet banking.
My thoughts exactly. Investors expect to make significant multiples in return for taking fairly large risks on startups. The business model of selling support and custom development to customers is a low margin, stable business model with no real startup costs that would justify investors getting involved.
I used to work for a company that made an MVC framework of sorts. We had conditionals fairly early on, but did without iterators in the view for a long time. Our own developers didn't miss them - there were better ways of dealing with sets of data than iterating through them - but the customers could not get out of the procedural programmer mindset and eventually we gave in and added iterators.
What was the European Council doing passing legislation? They are not supposed to have legislative powers, they get together a couple of times a year to propose policy direction for the Parliament and Commission to follow.
Right, but that would not have had an effect in this case, since the Commission rubber stamped the Parliament's decision, and it was the European Council (made up of the elected heads of member states) that vetoed it.