They usually call them prepaid phones in the US, though Virgin call it PAYG. The pay-as-you-go thing is a bit of a misnomer - you need credit on your account for the phone to work, so you're actually paying in advance.
What I still don't understand is if there are 72 million mobile phones in use in the UK, how come the UK population is only 60,776,238 (July 2007 est.)?
That's an easy one, mobile phones do not produce human beings.
Plenty of people have a personal phone and a work phone. Some pay-as-you-go phones don't require credit to stay active and receive calls, so the account stays alive even if nobody is using it; why bother to cancel when it's not costing you anything? I had a Virgin pay-as-you-go SIM for years that I didn't use, so I was one of the two-phone people for quite some time, even though I was only actually using my contract phone.
New Zealand always struck me a pretty civilised, and the language, culture and climate will be fairly familiar to a Brit. I did look up the details for emigrating there, I can't remember it all now, but they do want people and IT professionals are in demand. It's a points system based on all sorts of factors, but if you're a reasonably young native English speaker and have a professional job it's not hard to meet the requirements.
On the other hand, disbanding your entire air force may not meet your definition of "sane".
Why not just do the searches in front of you when you check your luggage? You could then lock the bag with the TSA watching so you don't sneak anything in.
"Good enough" is context dependant. In this context it quite obviously means "good enough to get accepted", because that is the requirement for getting malicous code into a project, which was the topic of discussion in the sub-thread. I'm terribly sorry that I confused you by expecting people to interpret my post in light of its context, FOSS common knowledge and common sense.
You said the only thing you would need to insert code in to an open source project was an email address.
Only if you take half a sentence out of context, which is a completely idiotic thing to do unless you just want an argument. Here it what I wrote again. I've highlighted the bit you are apparently blind to:
All you need to contribute to most open-source projects is an email address (and to be able to write good enough code, of course).
Why not rail at me for not mentioning you need a computer too?
Apple would be happy to litigate the monopoly argument because they do not have a monopoly in the operating system market. Apple having a monopoly in the market for their own branded products is a dumb argument, every company has that monopoly. Nike have a monopoly on Nike shoes, but not shoes in general. BMW have a monopoly on BMWs, but not cars in general. Apple have a monopoly on Mac OS X, but not on operating systems in general, so anti-trust laws do not apply.
The anti-trust thing is a red herring, Apple do not have sufficient market share for anti-trust laws to apply. The only real argument I've seen is the first-sale issue. If that turns out to be valid, I expect Apple will simply stop selling boxed copies of OS X and move to on-line OS upgrades which can only be performed from a Mac. With no way to buy OS X if you don't already have a Mac you wouldn't be able to legally get a copy even if it would be legal to run it on non-Apple hardware.
Getting the code in wouldn't be easy, but it wouldn't be easy in a closed-source project either. The greater potential to hide your identity makes getting away with it easier, which is an important consideration unless you're crazy.
You clip the end of my sentence off, then say I'm wrong because I didn't mention what you clipped off. Are you just trying to look like a prick, or are you in the habit of replying before even reaching the end of a sentence?
Not every process. At least with an employee or contractor you know who wrote the code. Not that every job has a full background check, but you usually need references, a bank account to get paid etc. All you need to contribute to most open-source projects is an email address (and to be able to write good enough code, of course). If I wanted to insert some malicious code into a popular application I'd pick an open-source one for precisely that reason.
Undoubtedly there is abuse of moderation, but this is not an example of it. I'll be charitable and assume you thought you were highlighting an amusing and unintended interpretation, but I'm pretty sure the original was intended to be interpreted that way - it was a deliberate joke, but perhaps subtle enough that you thought you were making the joke. Perhaps you though you were posting an amusing interpretation, but to those who got the joke you were just posting an explanation. Explanations of jokes aren't funny.
The GP's post on the other hand is not the same joke, it subverts the original joke and it's funny.
I at least have not seen any tracking system like this before.
Really? It's just an optical mouse with a few incremental improvements: Larger sensing area, blue light, better optics. Progress for sure, but it's not fundamentally different to existing optical mice.
Buy a better mouse. The two alkaline AAs in this LX8 have lasted a couple of months of heavy use so far and, if Logitech are to be believed, can go for as long as 8 months. I've not turned it or the computer it's attached to off in that time. When the alkalines die they'll be replaced by low-self-discharge NiMH batteries (eg. Sanyo Eneloop) and I expect to go months between charging them.
I spent £25 ($50) on my current mouse (a Logitech LX8, a wireless laser job) and I don't game with it, nor do I have a mouse pad. Given my previous mouse lasted me over five years and even the fanciest mice are well under £100, they're all pretty cheap for the use you get out of them. I just picked the one that felt good in my hand and had the buttons I wanted. I didn't look for wireless, but I've rapidly grown rather fond of it. £10 or £20 extra is nothing for something you might use for several hours of most days for many years.
I had an S3 Virge about 11 years ago, they were pretty popular back then. I don't recall hearing much about them since, I assumed they'd gone the way of 3DFX.
Wow, again. But bigger. (That was a cumulative wow for all the responses.)
It seems everybody's opinion jibes with my 32 years of first-hand experience of interacting with people. In part I suspect this is because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you don't trust someone they're a damn sight less likely to trust you. The converse is true - a great way to gain trust is to show that you trust the other person. If you treat people like animals, they act like animals. If you treat them as human beings, with trust and respect, it's almost always reciprocated.
That's because Apple have got the wrong audience. Plenty of people use a MacBook because it's smaller than a MacBook Pro, not because it's cheaper. They would have used a 12" Powerbook before that (a fair number still do, because they're smaller than anything in the current range). It wouldn't be so bad if there was a 13" MacBook Pro which had Firewire, but there isn't, so your only choice now is a 15" or 17" behemoth. I am ignoring the old MacBook which is still on sale, as I expect that will die soon.
Which Mini do you have? The 4 USB ports on my 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo are each on a separate host controller. I can even get virtually the same 20 MB/sec my eternal drive gives over Firewire through the ports on my (Apple) keyboard.
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They usually call them prepaid phones in the US, though Virgin call it PAYG. The pay-as-you-go thing is a bit of a misnomer - you need credit on your account for the phone to work, so you're actually paying in advance.
That's an easy one, mobile phones do not produce human beings.
Plenty of people have a personal phone and a work phone. Some pay-as-you-go phones don't require credit to stay active and receive calls, so the account stays alive even if nobody is using it; why bother to cancel when it's not costing you anything? I had a Virgin pay-as-you-go SIM for years that I didn't use, so I was one of the two-phone people for quite some time, even though I was only actually using my contract phone.
New Zealand always struck me a pretty civilised, and the language, culture and climate will be fairly familiar to a Brit. I did look up the details for emigrating there, I can't remember it all now, but they do want people and IT professionals are in demand. It's a points system based on all sorts of factors, but if you're a reasonably young native English speaker and have a professional job it's not hard to meet the requirements.
On the other hand, disbanding your entire air force may not meet your definition of "sane".
Why not just do the searches in front of you when you check your luggage? You could then lock the bag with the TSA watching so you don't sneak anything in.
Only A++++ and one exclamation mark? That's virtually a negative on eBay.
"Good enough" is context dependant. In this context it quite obviously means "good enough to get accepted", because that is the requirement for getting malicous code into a project, which was the topic of discussion in the sub-thread. I'm terribly sorry that I confused you by expecting people to interpret my post in light of its context, FOSS common knowledge and common sense.
Only if you take half a sentence out of context, which is a completely idiotic thing to do unless you just want an argument. Here it what I wrote again. I've highlighted the bit you are apparently blind to:
Why not rail at me for not mentioning you need a computer too?
Apple would be happy to litigate the monopoly argument because they do not have a monopoly in the operating system market. Apple having a monopoly in the market for their own branded products is a dumb argument, every company has that monopoly. Nike have a monopoly on Nike shoes, but not shoes in general. BMW have a monopoly on BMWs, but not cars in general. Apple have a monopoly on Mac OS X, but not on operating systems in general, so anti-trust laws do not apply.
The anti-trust thing is a red herring, Apple do not have sufficient market share for anti-trust laws to apply. The only real argument I've seen is the first-sale issue. If that turns out to be valid, I expect Apple will simply stop selling boxed copies of OS X and move to on-line OS upgrades which can only be performed from a Mac. With no way to buy OS X if you don't already have a Mac you wouldn't be able to legally get a copy even if it would be legal to run it on non-Apple hardware.
Getting the code in wouldn't be easy, but it wouldn't be easy in a closed-source project either. The greater potential to hide your identity makes getting away with it easier, which is an important consideration unless you're crazy.
You clip the end of my sentence off, then say I'm wrong because I didn't mention what you clipped off. Are you just trying to look like a prick, or are you in the habit of replying before even reaching the end of a sentence?
Not every process. At least with an employee or contractor you know who wrote the code. Not that every job has a full background check, but you usually need references, a bank account to get paid etc. All you need to contribute to most open-source projects is an email address (and to be able to write good enough code, of course). If I wanted to insert some malicious code into a popular application I'd pick an open-source one for precisely that reason.
Hang on, did I just offer to make some guy on the internet horny for $5? I feel so... dirty.
I draw you one for $5. Anybody lower?
I don't know why people like Shakespeare, he used awful fonts.
Undoubtedly there is abuse of moderation, but this is not an example of it. I'll be charitable and assume you thought you were highlighting an amusing and unintended interpretation, but I'm pretty sure the original was intended to be interpreted that way - it was a deliberate joke, but perhaps subtle enough that you thought you were making the joke. Perhaps you though you were posting an amusing interpretation, but to those who got the joke you were just posting an explanation. Explanations of jokes aren't funny.
The GP's post on the other hand is not the same joke, it subverts the original joke and it's funny.
It's a student (undergraduate I presume) project, so I expect the funding was zero.
Really? It's just an optical mouse with a few incremental improvements: Larger sensing area, blue light, better optics. Progress for sure, but it's not fundamentally different to existing optical mice.
I just had a flashback to September 1993.
Buy a better mouse. The two alkaline AAs in this LX8 have lasted a couple of months of heavy use so far and, if Logitech are to be believed, can go for as long as 8 months. I've not turned it or the computer it's attached to off in that time. When the alkalines die they'll be replaced by low-self-discharge NiMH batteries (eg. Sanyo Eneloop) and I expect to go months between charging them.
I spent £25 ($50) on my current mouse (a Logitech LX8, a wireless laser job) and I don't game with it, nor do I have a mouse pad. Given my previous mouse lasted me over five years and even the fanciest mice are well under £100, they're all pretty cheap for the use you get out of them. I just picked the one that felt good in my hand and had the buttons I wanted. I didn't look for wireless, but I've rapidly grown rather fond of it. £10 or £20 extra is nothing for something you might use for several hours of most days for many years.
I had an S3 Virge about 11 years ago, they were pretty popular back then. I don't recall hearing much about them since, I assumed they'd gone the way of 3DFX.
Wow, again. But bigger. (That was a cumulative wow for all the responses.)
It seems everybody's opinion jibes with my 32 years of first-hand experience of interacting with people. In part I suspect this is because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you don't trust someone they're a damn sight less likely to trust you. The converse is true - a great way to gain trust is to show that you trust the other person. If you treat people like animals, they act like animals. If you treat them as human beings, with trust and respect, it's almost always reciprocated.
That's because Apple have got the wrong audience. Plenty of people use a MacBook because it's smaller than a MacBook Pro, not because it's cheaper. They would have used a 12" Powerbook before that (a fair number still do, because they're smaller than anything in the current range). It wouldn't be so bad if there was a 13" MacBook Pro which had Firewire, but there isn't, so your only choice now is a 15" or 17" behemoth. I am ignoring the old MacBook which is still on sale, as I expect that will die soon.
Which Mini do you have? The 4 USB ports on my 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo are each on a separate host controller. I can even get virtually the same 20 MB/sec my eternal drive gives over Firewire through the ports on my (Apple) keyboard.