some marketing genius in Seattle figured out you could charge $5/cup if you said "small, medium or large" in a foreign language
The smallest size I remember seeing on a Starbucks menu was called grande. Normally in chain stores I go for a machiatto, because the little bit of milk is needed to knock the edge off the overroasted coffee. But when I tried that in a Starbucks once I got a huge mug of milk with caramel squirted all over it. It didn't taste like they'd put any coffee in it at all.
The banana that many of us (at least those of us over a certain age) grew up snacking on now is extinct.
For this to be true, your certain age has to be over 55. And extinct has to be redefined to mean not widely available commercially in the Western world.
It is not so much the climate change, but the mass production from genetically manipulated plants.
Our entire food industry is moving from genetically diverse natural crops to monocultures of genetically modified sterile clones. Soon the only solutions to this year's virus that is wiping out global crop will be the newly developed variety from the same companies that are getting us into this mess in the first place.
It really doesn't have anything to do with the storage format. CDs have a dynamic range of over 90dB, compared with vinyl peaking at around 70dB on the outer grooves the first time it is played. The music that is recorded on those mediums tends to have a dynamic range somewhere between 1dB and 15dB, with modern "loudness war" output tending towards the single digit end of the scale, and audiophile wankfest recordings being deliberately mastered way above that so their owners can feel smug and claim to hear the difference between their fiber optic interconnects.
At least when they did it with vinyl there was a cost advantage - lower dynamic range means they can get away with using less material in their pressings. With CD, there is no good reason for it. The loudness war seems to be driven more by FM radio (starting with ads, making the obvious move into payola) than anything else.
In addition to requiring then to be onsite, negotiate cost of the onsite support in advance. Include a bonus if everything goes according to plan, and if it doesn't, the vendor is covering the extra cost to put it right.
This has been impressively ameliorated by the use of NAT, which shares numerous intenral and protected IP addresses behind a single or pair of public addresses and should be the _default_ configuraiton in most businesses and organizaitons, simply to reduce the constant external vulnerability scanning of any host directly connected to the Internet.
How does having a single IPv4 address for an entire organization reduce the constant vulnerability scanning compared with having 100 IPv6 addresses somewhere within a block of 18 quintillion?
As you can see, those species are listed as "Least Concern" by the IUCN, which happens to be the same category that the sewer rat receives.
So eating whale meat is like eating sewer rats? You should apply for a job at the marketing department of the Japan Whaling and Fishing Association. They need someone with your expertise.
Compared with Europe, and especially Asia (notable by its absence in the table of top adopters of IPv6), US has a much larger pool of IPv4 addresses left, so there is less urgency to adopt IPv6. And yet there it is, up in fourth place. The only region with less urgency is Africa.
You can be sure that a company like GE buying solar panels for power station usage would be as much in control of their supply chain as GM is with their car parts. Smaller manufacturers buying solar panels for fitting to houses or caravans, not so much. I think if you looked in detail at any of the manufacturers of car accessories sold only through independent retailers, you'd find they were similarly lacking in control of their supply chain. This isn't an industry problem, it is a problem that happens at the lower end of any industry.
many of the locked-down MSWindows systems that are deployed are wiped by the users to install Linux. Other systems may be mostly locked down, but users will run their own systems in virtual machines. The network may have a nice secure firewall, but lots of users set up backdoors through their home VPN connections to bypass the tight web filters.
These are all things that can more or less be prevented or detected.
Which is what is wrong with IT. You can't see past your own policies to the fact that users have genuine business needs to use Linux on their laptops or in VMs, and those web filters you install to stop anything with *p?rn* in the URL are preventing access to sites that people need to access to do their work.
Instead of "OMG, people are bypassing our restrictions! How do we stop them?", your first response should be "why do they feel the need to do this, and how can we accommodate their business needs?".
This. Except the magazine was Byte, and the computer a ZX-81. The most memorable moment was an article that demonstrated how to make sound by messing with the video parameters, which me and my cousin combined with a game to have the gameplay interrupt to make shooting noises. In those days, programming a computer meant understanding how the hardware worked. A lot of that is lost these days, as computers have gotten too complex for the average programmer to understand fully, and powerful and flexible enough that you don't need to.
Why is "Lying to your friends to sell stuff" an option in the settings? And why is it checked by default? Doesn't it fall foul of some "truth in advertising" laws at least somewhere in the world?
Do you ban yourself from New York because of the $3500 fee they charge for filming in certain public buildings? Or is it just developing countries where you demand that all privileges be provided free for the Western tourists?
deg C has the same status in metric as litres. The official SA units are Kelvins and cubic metres, but deg C and litres are simple derivations of those.
The Xorg in his post gave it away. You need to recompile emacs with direct framebuf support. Or wait for Wayland, Mir or whatever platform comes next promising to fix all these sorts of performance problems in X.
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80? Try 30 - 40 for optimum reading speed.
If you just want someone to make the coffee and do the filing, what's the point of hiring interns?
The smallest size I remember seeing on a Starbucks menu was called grande. Normally in chain stores I go for a machiatto, because the little bit of milk is needed to knock the edge off the overroasted coffee. But when I tried that in a Starbucks once I got a huge mug of milk with caramel squirted all over it. It didn't taste like they'd put any coffee in it at all.
For this to be true, your certain age has to be over 55. And extinct has to be redefined to mean not widely available commercially in the Western world.
Our entire food industry is moving from genetically diverse natural crops to monocultures of genetically modified sterile clones. Soon the only solutions to this year's virus that is wiping out global crop will be the newly developed variety from the same companies that are getting us into this mess in the first place.
It really doesn't have anything to do with the storage format. CDs have a dynamic range of over 90dB, compared with vinyl peaking at around 70dB on the outer grooves the first time it is played. The music that is recorded on those mediums tends to have a dynamic range somewhere between 1dB and 15dB, with modern "loudness war" output tending towards the single digit end of the scale, and audiophile wankfest recordings being deliberately mastered way above that so their owners can feel smug and claim to hear the difference between their fiber optic interconnects.
At least when they did it with vinyl there was a cost advantage - lower dynamic range means they can get away with using less material in their pressings. With CD, there is no good reason for it. The loudness war seems to be driven more by FM radio (starting with ads, making the obvious move into payola) than anything else.
It wouldn't be hard either. A few well placed webm videos ought to push the other browsers' CPU usage up while leaving IE sitting at idle.
Because Metro was such a success that Apple wants to copy it. Somehow I don't think so...
In addition to requiring then to be onsite, negotiate cost of the onsite support in advance. Include a bonus if everything goes according to plan, and if it doesn't, the vendor is covering the extra cost to put it right.
How does having a single IPv4 address for an entire organization reduce the constant vulnerability scanning compared with having 100 IPv6 addresses somewhere within a block of 18 quintillion?
It's not just the railways. And now the Chinese are spreading their construction expertise throughout Asia.
Somehow I think you've confused her with someone else.
You've clearly never caught the last train home on any night of the week in any city in Japan.
So eating whale meat is like eating sewer rats? You should apply for a job at the marketing department of the Japan Whaling and Fishing Association. They need someone with your expertise.
Compared with Europe, and especially Asia (notable by its absence in the table of top adopters of IPv6), US has a much larger pool of IPv4 addresses left, so there is less urgency to adopt IPv6. And yet there it is, up in fourth place. The only region with less urgency is Africa.
You can be sure that a company like GE buying solar panels for power station usage would be as much in control of their supply chain as GM is with their car parts. Smaller manufacturers buying solar panels for fitting to houses or caravans, not so much. I think if you looked in detail at any of the manufacturers of car accessories sold only through independent retailers, you'd find they were similarly lacking in control of their supply chain. This isn't an industry problem, it is a problem that happens at the lower end of any industry.
Which is what is wrong with IT. You can't see past your own policies to the fact that users have genuine business needs to use Linux on their laptops or in VMs, and those web filters you install to stop anything with *p?rn* in the URL are preventing access to sites that people need to access to do their work.
Instead of "OMG, people are bypassing our restrictions! How do we stop them?", your first response should be "why do they feel the need to do this, and how can we accommodate their business needs?".
This. Except the magazine was Byte, and the computer a ZX-81. The most memorable moment was an article that demonstrated how to make sound by messing with the video parameters, which me and my cousin combined with a game to have the gameplay interrupt to make shooting noises. In those days, programming a computer meant understanding how the hardware worked. A lot of that is lost these days, as computers have gotten too complex for the average programmer to understand fully, and powerful and flexible enough that you don't need to.
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Not just iTunes - I don't see any sign of Amazon, 7-digital or Google Music in the first few pages of search results either.
Why is "Lying to your friends to sell stuff" an option in the settings? And why is it checked by default? Doesn't it fall foul of some "truth in advertising" laws at least somewhere in the world?
Do you ban yourself from New York because of the $3500 fee they charge for filming in certain public buildings? Or is it just developing countries where you demand that all privileges be provided free for the Western tourists?
deg C has the same status in metric as litres. The official SA units are Kelvins and cubic metres, but deg C and litres are simple derivations of those.
The Xorg in his post gave it away. You need to recompile emacs with direct framebuf support. Or wait for Wayland, Mir or whatever platform comes next promising to fix all these sorts of performance problems in X.