In the military, it's often referred to as the "mk 1 eyeball". Something to be said for it. The resolution, focussing speed, and tracking ability can't easily be beaten.
But mostly, I just don't answer the phone if caller ID doesn't show a name.
That's fine for some people. It's a bit of a nuisance if you want to receive a subset of phone calls from people who withold their number. For example, I often get called by agents for potential employers.
Perhaps telemarketers should be obliged to have a number that shows up. Preferably something with a consistent area code.
Another thing that I get is callers asking for some random name (changes each time), and when I tell them that nobody by that name lives here, they immediately start with the "Well, maybe you'd be interested..." pitch. I don't know if they're doing it as a "we didn't call *you*, but got *you* on the line anyway" type defense.
It's usually just outdated information. I've had one on occasion someone had the name of the previous owner of my parents place and she hadn't lived there for 10 years.
Presumably they have part of their script to handle this.
People offering me cheaper calls never seem to be able to handle the response, "I don't have a phone", "no, nobody lives at this address", "will you deliver to tunisia?", or other obvious lies.
I would assume that SP2 doesn't count as an upgrade; otherwise, even Windows Update Security Patch 12345 would count.
As the poster said - "It's intentionally vague". The main reason it doesn't count as an upgrade is that Microsoft feel that the benefits of not considering it an upgrade are greater than if they do.
Admittedly, any court would proably be fairly generous to the end-user when it came to interpreting something so vague.
I have to wonder how well that sort of disclaimer actually protects the owner. I mean, if it's quite clear that the site exists to facilitate copyright infringement (n.b. 'if'. I'm not saying it does), then I think that disclaimers not worth the paper it's not printed on.
Have you even considered what other formats these headlines end up in?
I saw the story because my RSS reader popped the headline up for me. There are also a lot of news aggregator sites that have even less space than a single column to work with. Do the Slashdot editors still have a 'whole page' to work with? How big is a 'whole page' on the interweb?
Do the Slashdot editors have a specific limit to title lengths? if they do, then the ommission is reasonable. Since Slashdot often has headlines longer than that (e.g. "Programmer Built Vote-Rigging Demo for Florida Politician", I find it hard to believe they do have such a limit.
Also, I think if you ever complained to a legitimate news source(which I don't consider/. to be), they'd probably have a good laugh before tossing your letter in the mail or dropping your e-mail address in the spam filter.
That is their right. I think they'd be stupid to ignore a complaint about having confusing headlines, but if they want to then they can. Likewise I can choose to stop reading their rag. I wouldn't over something so trivial, but it would marginally decrease my desire to read it.
First of all, "War of the Worlds, and Chocolate Factory Trailers" doesn't make any sense
Then you're a moron.
it's not grammatically correct by any stretch of the imagination. Never use a comma in a list of two items.
It's all about clarity. "War of the worlds" and "chocolate Factory" are complex phrases. Leaving out the comma would suggest that the and belongs to War OF the Worlds.
Second of all, the comma is commonly used in journalism in place of "and." For example, "Man Shoots Wife, Self."
It's sloppy practice. There's no good reason for it. Many style guide explicitely forbid this becuase it makes sentences clumsy.
I thought the Delaware was the imperial measurment. Presumably this is the US Imperial unit, which they use due to the difference in size of a football stadium.
It's British. Or at least it was invented in Britain. Possibly is should be considered Anglo-Indian fusion cuisine. Chicken Tikka is Indian, but the masala sauce is a British innovation.
Similarly, chop suey is American.
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I've heard it a few times here on/. from Americans, probably who have been to London and eaten in some tourist rip-off joint.
No.... usually from Americans who live of junk food, who haven't been outside the US in their lives, and get their information form 7th hand rumours from people who went to England in the 1950's.
I went to a good pub in Surrey. Ordered a very nice full roast. The yorshires were well made and fluffy. The gravy was hot, the meat was tender and not overcooked, and the steamed veg was very nicely done.
But clearly you've tried every restaurant south of Sheffield, and I just managed to get the one exception.
You do know that we Brits are the culinary laughing stock of the world?
No idea why. Boiled cabbage has been off the menu just about everywhere since the 1950's. The reputation comes from the french, who think they're superior because... well, because they're french.
We have some fine tradtional food, such as roast beef, Full English Breakfast, Cotage pie, some of the worlds best cheeses, crumpets, and Chicken Tikka Masala.
Granted, we have a lot of people who wouldn't know good food if you hit them with it, but I refuse to beleive Britain is unique in that respect. If you want good food, its available and easy to find.
Exactly my point. A system of sampling cannot exclude the possibility that a single machine miscounted a single vote with 100% certainty. You MUST verify ALL votes and ALL machines.
In which case, the closeness of the election has very little bearing. Even if the winner by 10% you'd need to check most of the machines to get that level of certainty.
We don't want to be 100% confident that 99.9985% of the machines are working. We want to be reasonbly confident that 100% of the machines are working correctly. If one of them is out by a single vote, then the whole count is invalid and needs to be recounted in full. It's not like we're recording approximate values. A count of votes is an integer count of discrete values. 100% accuracy is a requirement.
If any one of the machines is faulty (i.e. gets the count wrong by 1 or more votes), then it's highly likely that all of the machines are faulty. Testing a sample will reveal this.
I'm assuming there's some sort of actual countable paper trail. It would be foolish not to have one;)
Sorry. I hadn't read the article. Yup, it looks like they've been really stupid here. Still, it would make sense to print hard copies from at least one of the machines to be sure it actually gets its own count correct. It won't guarentee it has recorded the vote correctly, but some of these machines are so bad that it's worth checking it got the count right.
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But it's still more or less the same version. Perhaps it's actually version 1.163435395.104824681 or something
Yeah, but we don't consider someone dressed in pants, a vest and suspenders to be suitably dressed in our society;)
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In the military, it's often referred to as the "mk 1 eyeball". Something to be said for it. The resolution, focussing speed, and tracking ability can't easily be beaten.
But mostly, I just don't answer the phone if caller ID doesn't show a name.
That's fine for some people. It's a bit of a nuisance if you want to receive a subset of phone calls from people who withold their number. For example, I often get called by agents for potential employers.
Perhaps telemarketers should be obliged to have a number that shows up. Preferably something with a consistent area code.
Another thing that I get is callers asking for some random name (changes each time), and when I tell them that nobody by that name lives here, they immediately start with the "Well, maybe you'd be interested..." pitch. I don't know if they're doing it as a "we didn't call *you*, but got *you* on the line anyway" type defense.
It's usually just outdated information. I've had one on occasion someone had the name of the previous owner of my parents place and she hadn't lived there for 10 years.
Presumably they have part of their script to handle this.
People offering me cheaper calls never seem to be able to handle the response, "I don't have a phone", "no, nobody lives at this address", "will you deliver to tunisia?", or other obvious lies.
After all, the dnc list will come out of taxpayer money, which we pay too much of already.
Surely it doesn't cost $70 per person.
It would make sense to charge telemarketers for the cost of running it. Since it would make sense, I seriously doubt this is how its actually funded.
I would assume that SP2 doesn't count as an upgrade; otherwise, even Windows Update Security Patch 12345 would count.
As the poster said - "It's intentionally vague". The main reason it doesn't count as an upgrade is that Microsoft feel that the benefits of not considering it an upgrade are greater than if they do.
Admittedly, any court would proably be fairly generous to the end-user when it came to interpreting something so vague.
It makes their case a little weak though.
They can't verify that the user with that IP actually uploaded or downloaded any copyrighted material.
I have to wonder how well that sort of disclaimer actually protects the owner. I mean, if it's quite clear that the site exists to facilitate copyright infringement (n.b. 'if'. I'm not saying it does), then I think that disclaimers not worth the paper it's not printed on.
Have you even considered what other formats these headlines end up in?
/. to be), they'd probably have a good laugh before tossing your letter in the mail or dropping your e-mail address in the spam filter.
I saw the story because my RSS reader popped the headline up for me. There are also a lot of news aggregator sites that have even less space than a single column to work with. Do the Slashdot editors still have a 'whole page' to work with? How big is a 'whole page' on the interweb?
Do the Slashdot editors have a specific limit to title lengths? if they do, then the ommission is reasonable. Since Slashdot often has headlines longer than that (e.g. "Programmer Built Vote-Rigging Demo for Florida Politician", I find it hard to believe they do have such a limit.
Also, I think if you ever complained to a legitimate news source(which I don't consider
That is their right. I think they'd be stupid to ignore a complaint about having confusing headlines, but if they want to then they can. Likewise I can choose to stop reading their rag. I wouldn't over something so trivial, but it would marginally decrease my desire to read it.
Actually, using a comma instead of the word "and" is standard practice for headlines.
Yes. A bad practice.
And your excuse for spelling is....?
Laziness and the fact that I'm not trying to run a professional media outlet.
It's just headlining tradition.
You are aware that Argumentum ad antiquitatem is widely recognised as a logical fallacy aren't you?
Go gripe at every newspaper in the world - don't they have the whole width of the page, too?
If a newspaper I read does this, I will complain. As long as I can be bothered.
I'd feel sad for the newspaper that only had half a page or so to work with.
Most articles only have a single column to work with.
First of all, "War of the Worlds, and Chocolate Factory Trailers" doesn't make any sense
Then you're a moron.
it's not grammatically correct by any stretch of the imagination. Never use a comma in a list of two items.
It's all about clarity. "War of the worlds" and "chocolate Factory" are complex phrases. Leaving out the comma would suggest that the and belongs to War OF the Worlds.
Second of all, the comma is commonly used in journalism in place of "and." For example, "Man Shoots Wife, Self."
It's sloppy practice. There's no good reason for it. Many style guide explicitely forbid this becuase it makes sentences clumsy.
I mean how hard is it to use a conjunction, and give us the gramatically correct headline "War of the Worlds, and Chocolate Factory Trailers".
See how much clearer it is. Took me a while to work out what "war of the worlds, chocolate" was, and why its factory shoudl have a trailer.
And it's not like you have the excuse of typesetting restrcitions. You have the whole wiidth of the page.
I thought the Delaware was the imperial measurment. Presumably this is the US Imperial unit, which they use due to the difference in size of a football stadium.
It's British. Or at least it was invented in Britain. Possibly is should be considered Anglo-Indian fusion cuisine. Chicken Tikka is Indian, but the masala sauce is a British innovation.
Similarly, chop suey is American.
An area the size of wales.
I've heard it a few times here on /. from Americans, probably who have been to London and eaten in some tourist rip-off joint.
No.... usually from Americans who live of junk food, who haven't been outside the US in their lives, and get their information form 7th hand rumours from people who went to England in the 1950's.
I went to a good pub in Surrey. Ordered a very nice full roast. The yorshires were well made and fluffy. The gravy was hot, the meat was tender and not overcooked, and the steamed veg was very nicely done.
But clearly you've tried every restaurant south of Sheffield, and I just managed to get the one exception.
You do know that we Brits are the culinary laughing stock of the world?
... well, because they're french.
No idea why. Boiled cabbage has been off the menu just about everywhere since the 1950's. The reputation comes from the french, who think they're superior because
We have some fine tradtional food, such as roast beef, Full English Breakfast, Cotage pie, some of the worlds best cheeses, crumpets, and Chicken Tikka Masala.
Granted, we have a lot of people who wouldn't know good food if you hit them with it, but I refuse to beleive Britain is unique in that respect. If you want good food, its available and easy to find.
Exactly my point. A system of sampling cannot exclude the possibility that a single machine miscounted a single vote with 100% certainty. You MUST verify ALL votes and ALL machines.
In which case, the closeness of the election has very little bearing. Even if the winner by 10% you'd need to check most of the machines to get that level of certainty.
Clearly you have some dodgy drivers. I'vebeen using Windows as my primary OS for a couple of years now and it hasn't crashed once.
CD uses a 780 nm laser. DVD uses 640nm.
In that case, you're measuring the wrong value.
We don't want to be 100% confident that 99.9985% of the machines are working. We want to be reasonbly confident that 100% of the machines are working correctly. If one of them is out by a single vote, then the whole count is invalid and needs to be recounted in full. It's not like we're recording approximate values. A count of votes is an integer count of discrete values. 100% accuracy is a requirement.
If any one of the machines is faulty (i.e. gets the count wrong by 1 or more votes), then it's highly likely that all of the machines are faulty. Testing a sample will reveal this.
I'm assuming there's some sort of actual countable paper trail. It would be foolish not to have one ;)
Sorry. I hadn't read the article. Yup, it looks like they've been really stupid here. Still, it would make sense to print hard copies from at least one of the machines to be sure it actually gets its own count correct. It won't guarentee it has recorded the vote correctly, but some of these machines are so bad that it's worth checking it got the count right.