Earls court station sucks, and you wait forever for a district line train going towards wimbledon. The only type of departure board is a printed list of destinations, with an arrow back-lit by a globe when your train is next. It has you switching platforms willy-nilly, and gives no indication of how long a train will be. If wifi could give extra information, fantastic.
The wifi probably won't get much out to the outer portions of the underground network, but I know the western picadilly line has non-functioning signage, due to there being no data connection from those stations which would allow them to have estmated time of arrival of net train. The electronic signs which would allow this just display "picadilly line" instead of any useful information. I had to use an application on my phone to get this information even while standing on the platform.
How about instead of these sites going completely black, that they just make it more difficult to access. When you go to the site, it geo-locates you, and the closer you are to Washington DC, the longer a timer it sets. While you're waiting for the timer to time out, all you have to look at is information about SOPA. But then when the timer finishes, you get to access you page. And there's a way around this using a cookie or something for the tech-savvy of us.
The only one I thought of reaching for a calculator for was the wages one, and that's just because I'm lazy. Then I noticed one had the correct cents, and so that must be the answer.
I could forgive forgetting the coordinate system, and remembering the difference between rotating about the Y axis and flipping the sign of the y coordinate, but the rest were just sums. That someone could fail to get 100% on the sums with a calculator is ridiculous.
I sincerely hope that these weren't true representations of the difficulty of the test, and that the journalists are being silly......
Ah, I found the answer, and it's "You must also have been a resident of the United States at the time of your purchase".
And the $1.50 is only credit on their site! You don't even get a cheque for the money. Ridiculous. I hope the lawyers who agreed to this also get their payment in ticketmaster credit only.
You know that you can easily change the behaviour of closing the lid ?
First thing I do when setting up a new notebook is setting the lid close behaviour to "do nothing".
If I want to standby or power down, then it takes me an extra second or so to press the power button. Otherwise, I'm just closnig the lid to get to the cables behind the notebook, or so my boss doesn't see the screen, or because I'm carrying the notebook into the other room.
Math looks good (although upper case "K" is Kelvin - you need lower case "k" for kilo...), but I suspect there's a large dose of redundancy and Error-correction information included in that 6Mbps. It's not like you can have an efficient retry protocol with a 20 minute ping time. So, there'd be less than 3.2GB of useful data sent. Probably between 50% and 70% would be actual image.
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Earls court station sucks, and you wait forever for a district line train going towards wimbledon. The only type of departure board is a printed list of destinations, with an arrow back-lit by a globe when your train is next. It has you switching platforms willy-nilly, and gives no indication of how long a train will be. If wifi could give extra information, fantastic.
The wifi probably won't get much out to the outer portions of the underground network, but I know the western picadilly line has non-functioning signage, due to there being no data connection from those stations which would allow them to have estmated time of arrival of net train. The electronic signs which would allow this just display "picadilly line" instead of any useful information. I had to use an application on my phone to get this information even while standing on the platform.
TMI?
How many "I've got an emergency IN MY PANTS!" MMS do you think they'll get before turning that feature off?
Sort of like the Skeptics Annotated Bible ?
How about instead of these sites going completely black, that they just make it more difficult to access.
When you go to the site, it geo-locates you, and the closer you are to Washington DC, the longer a timer it sets. While you're waiting for the timer to time out, all you have to look at is information about SOPA. But then when the timer finishes, you get to access you page. And there's a way around this using a cookie or something for the tech-savvy of us.
Absolutely.
The only one I thought of reaching for a calculator for was the wages one, and that's just because I'm lazy. Then I noticed one had the correct cents, and so that must be the answer.
I could forgive forgetting the coordinate system, and remembering the difference between rotating about the Y axis and flipping the sign of the y coordinate, but the rest were just sums. That someone could fail to get 100% on the sums with a calculator is ridiculous.
I sincerely hope that these weren't true representations of the difficulty of the test, and that the journalists are being silly......
Otherwise the world is doomed.
Ah, I found the answer, and it's "You must also have been a resident of the United States at the time of your purchase". And the $1.50 is only credit on their site! You don't even get a cheque for the money. Ridiculous. I hope the lawyers who agreed to this also get their payment in ticketmaster credit only.
I've used ticketmaster for events in the UK and Australia. Do I get anything? Or is it just the USA?
Can you tell us anything about Marc Stephens? Have you heard of him? Is he a lawyer? If not, what relationship does he have with the clinic?
Ah, thanks.
Mulk? The web downloader, like cURL or wget? If you mean something else, would you mind providing a URL?
You know that you can easily change the behaviour of closing the lid ? First thing I do when setting up a new notebook is setting the lid close behaviour to "do nothing". If I want to standby or power down, then it takes me an extra second or so to press the power button. Otherwise, I'm just closnig the lid to get to the cables behind the notebook, or so my boss doesn't see the screen, or because I'm carrying the notebook into the other room.
They should make the app skin-able, have the default skin as something else, but the ability to download the LCARS skin...
Math looks good (although upper case "K" is Kelvin - you need lower case "k" for kilo...), but I suspect there's a large dose of redundancy and Error-correction information included in that 6Mbps. It's not like you can have an efficient retry protocol with a 20 minute ping time. So, there'd be less than 3.2GB of useful data sent. Probably between 50% and 70% would be actual image.