The article was comparing the cost and durability of A4 prints. Given the cost of anything above about 8"x6" on the high street, I don't think you'd need to print too many photos at that size for the printer to pay for itself.
I just found the same article on a different site. It seems the original article I saw was playing silly games with percentages and misrepresenting if they were talking about absolute numbers.
The numbers killed are "low" because current medical technology is better at keeping patients alive than in any previous war. If you count the injured as well as the dead, the US casualties in Iraq in the last year are comparable to 5 years of Vietnam.
Isn't this basically what many Japanese companies do? They get the product to beta quality, then do a limited release in the Japanese market.
They generally do limited Japanese releases instead of market research, not instead of quality assurance. The stuff that does well in Japan makes it to international markets, they stuff that doesn't sell gets canned.
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The.NET Compact Framework crawls on a 400MHz ARM9 chip. What sort of applications are they intending this thing to be used for?
In London, I sometimes get 300/400m accuracy on my Garmin (which is not much good for accurate navigation) and, 25% of the time, I get an unuseable signal ("Too weak").
Let me guess, you spend 25% of your time stuck in traffic jams in the Blackwall tunnel? I don't know anyone that has problems as bad as you describe in London. The occassional problem with trees or buildings stopping the receiver getting a lock when you start out, but once you're moving, you should get a signal pretty quick provided you haven't mounted the aerial too far inside your car. Maybe you need to reposition the aerial?
Still, she had a lot more influence than about half the people on this list, and if either her or Ada Lovelace were on the list they would not look like a token female tacked on to the end of the list as an afterthought like Ann Winblad does.
Sure, thicker cable might make your speakers sound better, but go down to your local electrical wholesaler and get a roll of heavy duty mains cable for 10c/metre instead of paying $10/metre for branded "high end audio" crap. The copper comes from the same mines at the end of the day, despite what the marketing hype says about "oxygen free", "directional" etc.
Here's a comparison of next-gen handheld console sizes. I'd have to pick DS as the biggest of the bunch from that pic. The PSP is wider, but smaller in both other dimensions. Nintendo is also quite boxy too, so would fill its entire dimensions, the others have more curves and missing corners that make them smaller than that diagram suggests.
Look up "Mary Whitehouse" for the UK version. And "Patricia Bartlett" for New Zealand. Both these people are dead now, but the groups they started are still responsible for the vast majority of complaints in the respective countries. I don't think the US situation is in any way unusual.
The US has a problem with the Kyoto protocol because it is specifically designed to hurt the US.
This is bullshit. The US has a target of 93% of 1990 emissions. The EU (as a whole) and most of Eastern Europe have a target of 92%, with Luxembourg on 72%, Germany and Denmark on 79%, Austria on 87% and the UK on 87.5% standing out as being a lot more "hurt" by this than the US. I really wish US would stop playing the victim and get on with life. A lot of these countries are on track for meeting these targets. Some of them have exceeded those targets (notably Russia, currently with 60% of 1990 levels vs a target of 100%, and China currently with 83% vs no target set yet).
Meanwhile, back in reality, China's CO2 production has actually fallen slightly in the last 4 years, while the US has increased its production by 13%.
The arguments the US uses to avoid signing on to Kyoto are bunk. Both China and Russia have signed, and exceeded their responsibilities under Kyoto. The US has got itself into the position where it cannot sign, because its targets are unattainable.
Seriously folks, stop worrying about Ukraine and start looking at what went on in your own back yard. The Ukranians seem to be handling things quite nicely themselves, but where are the mass protests in the US?
I wouldn't be at all surprised if they slipped in an "inactivity fee" one day to make some money off all the people that have signed up for a one off transaction and never used their account. Note that they store your credit card or bank account details, there is no option to enter them once for every transaction.
No, at a call centre. Their "computers are down" all the time. What they really mean is that the bank does not give them direct access to the computer systems, and they know its a pain to get hold of their after-hours contact at the bank who does, so they try and brush you off with this one hoping you'll call during office hours when they can just transfer you to the bank's real call centre.
A better idea would be to allow customers to use their keyboards
A better idea? Do you have shares in the Russian Keylogging Mafia or something?
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The problem seems to be people who don't know the difference.
I just hope my mother has said to herself: "WTF, I don't have an account with..., why are they asking me to update my details?" enough times that when the phishers hit her bank her first reaction is: "this looks like all those other mails that J told me were scams, better check with him first."
Paypal did the same to its European (or maybe just UK) customers last week. Unlike the phishers they weren't asking to update any details, just notifying of new terms and conditions, but to read the new T&Cs you had to log in. Completely unnecessary, and had me manually typing in the URL just to make sure some phisher hadn't figured out how to fool Thunderbird and Firefox into showing false information.
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I used one of these a couple of weeks ago. The machine was over the other side of the register and as I pulled the pinpad close enough to my chest that noone else could see what I was typing, the store owner sheiked at me not to break her precious new gadget by stretching the cable too far. No way was I entering my PIN at arms length right in front of her nose and in full view of the other customers in line behind me.
My bank offered photo cards a while ago. They sent out junkmail describing how great they were at reducing fraud, and said I could have one for the introductory price of £20/year. Who is it that is benefiting from the reduced fraud again?
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The article was comparing the cost and durability of A4 prints. Given the cost of anything above about 8"x6" on the high street, I don't think you'd need to print too many photos at that size for the printer to pay for itself.
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I just found the same article on a different site. It seems the original article I saw was playing silly games with percentages and misrepresenting if they were talking about absolute numbers.
The numbers killed are "low" because current medical technology is better at keeping patients alive than in any previous war. If you count the injured as well as the dead, the US casualties in Iraq in the last year are comparable to 5 years of Vietnam.
They generally do limited Japanese releases instead of market research, not instead of quality assurance. The stuff that does well in Japan makes it to international markets, they stuff that doesn't sell gets canned.
The .NET Compact Framework crawls on a 400MHz ARM9 chip. What sort of applications are they intending this thing to be used for?
It's pronounced "ahhhs" aRRRse (in my best West Country accent).
Let me guess, you spend 25% of your time stuck in traffic jams in the Blackwall tunnel? I don't know anyone that has problems as bad as you describe in London. The occassional problem with trees or buildings stopping the receiver getting a lock when you start out, but once you're moving, you should get a signal pretty quick provided you haven't mounted the aerial too far inside your car. Maybe you need to reposition the aerial?
Still, she had a lot more influence than about half the people on this list, and if either her or Ada Lovelace were on the list they would not look like a token female tacked on to the end of the list as an afterthought like Ann Winblad does.
Sure, thicker cable might make your speakers sound better, but go down to your local electrical wholesaler and get a roll of heavy duty mains cable for 10c/metre instead of paying $10/metre for branded "high end audio" crap. The copper comes from the same mines at the end of the day, despite what the marketing hype says about "oxygen free", "directional" etc.
Here's a comparison of next-gen handheld console sizes. I'd have to pick DS as the biggest of the bunch from that pic. The PSP is wider, but smaller in both other dimensions. Nintendo is also quite boxy too, so would fill its entire dimensions, the others have more curves and missing corners that make them smaller than that diagram suggests.
Look up "Mary Whitehouse" for the UK version. And "Patricia Bartlett" for New Zealand. Both these people are dead now, but the groups they started are still responsible for the vast majority of complaints in the respective countries. I don't think the US situation is in any way unusual.
This is bullshit. The US has a target of 93% of 1990 emissions. The EU (as a whole) and most of Eastern Europe have a target of 92%, with Luxembourg on 72%, Germany and Denmark on 79%, Austria on 87% and the UK on 87.5% standing out as being a lot more "hurt" by this than the US. I really wish US would stop playing the victim and get on with life. A lot of these countries are on track for meeting these targets. Some of them have exceeded those targets (notably Russia, currently with 60% of 1990 levels vs a target of 100%, and China currently with 83% vs no target set yet).
How many variations on c1t1bank.com are there in that list of new domains I wonder?
The arguments the US uses to avoid signing on to Kyoto are bunk. Both China and Russia have signed, and exceeded their responsibilities under Kyoto. The US has got itself into the position where it cannot sign, because its targets are unattainable.
Other options include:
It saddens me that the US has chosen the last option.
Why would the president of the United States influence what medical research is carried out in South Korea?
It doesn't for most phones. This is just the standard response I'd expect from customer support.
Seriously folks, stop worrying about Ukraine and start looking at what went on in your own back yard. The Ukranians seem to be handling things quite nicely themselves, but where are the mass protests in the US?
You *trust* Paypal enough not to?
I wouldn't be at all surprised if they slipped in an "inactivity fee" one day to make some money off all the people that have signed up for a one off transaction and never used their account. Note that they store your credit card or bank account details, there is no option to enter them once for every transaction.
No, at a call centre. Their "computers are down" all the time. What they really mean is that the bank does not give them direct access to the computer systems, and they know its a pain to get hold of their after-hours contact at the bank who does, so they try and brush you off with this one hoping you'll call during office hours when they can just transfer you to the bank's real call centre.
A better idea? Do you have shares in the Russian Keylogging Mafia or something?
I just hope my mother has said to herself: "WTF, I don't have an account with ..., why are they asking me to update my details?" enough times that when the phishers hit her bank her first reaction is: "this looks like all those other mails that J told me were scams, better check with him first."
Paypal did the same to its European (or maybe just UK) customers last week. Unlike the phishers they weren't asking to update any details, just notifying of new terms and conditions, but to read the new T&Cs you had to log in. Completely unnecessary, and had me manually typing in the URL just to make sure some phisher hadn't figured out how to fool Thunderbird and Firefox into showing false information.
My bank offered photo cards a while ago. They sent out junkmail describing how great they were at reducing fraud, and said I could have one for the introductory price of £20/year. Who is it that is benefiting from the reduced fraud again?