The fact your firewall was disabled shows you already did some interaction.
This comment misses the point. It was quite clear what the question meant and trying to twist around one of the pre-conditions to be one of the others can be intended only to create confusion rather than illumination.
Not true! The US is showing a current total of 7.7 million downloads, but that's out of a current world total of 29 million. I couldn't find a figure for how many out of the original 8 million were in the US, but it seems unlikely that all the US users did their download in the first 24 hours and then nobody in the US has downloaded it since.
Something wrong with the timestamp at the bottom of that page. It says it's in GMT but in fact it's 8 hours behind GMT - perhaps somewhere on the west coast of the USA?
What allows the booksellers to rip and return the cover, destruct the rest of the book and get a refund is a CONTRACT they entered into with the publisher, in this contract they promised to destruct books whose cover they return. The verb for which you are hunting in vain is *destroy*, not "destruct".
Calculators on tests have made tests easier, but this is a good thing. Can you imagine having to figure out sines and cosines by hand anymore? I don't think maths students have ever worked out the majority of trig functions by hand. Before calculators we used tables. However there are some which you really should know without needing to reach for a calculator.
What calculators do is make it easier to get to more advanced topics. That's one thing they do, but you're rather naive if you think it's the only thing which they do. They also tend to make weak students even weaker, because they become totally dependent on their calculators.
Knowing how to add 1234+2345 in my head is just no longer a necessary skill. Strongly disagree. It's still a very useful life skill to be able to do simple maths like this in your head. (3579 incidentally.) I frequently spot mistakes in calculations done using calculators (data entry mistakes obviously, not bugs in the calculator firmware) precisely because I can and do do the stuff in my head too.
I rather students practice the properties of math, and write things out on paper anyway. (#1 problem with algebra and calculus students, they try to do too much math in their head) As a practising maths teacher I have the opposite problem. Students are far too ready to reach for their calculators when they're not required. They then end up taking longer and getting an over complex answer because they didn't *think* about the question.
An answer like 1/root(2) conveys far more than 0.7...
Seriously? Did I do my math correctly? No.
40GB per month? 15MB/sec? It would take under an hour to go over the monthly allowance? The article said 15 Mb/sec, not 15 MB/sec.
Even then, just because you have bandwidth doesn't mean you have to saturate it all the time.
I have an 8 Mb/sec link with a 3G cap on daytime usage per month - I use the 'net whenever I want to and I've never come close to hitting that cap. (Not quite true - I did hit it one month when I re-installed a Debian workstation several times.)
Those who go over will be charged $1 per gigabyte Sounds surprisingly reasonable (if correct). The services I've seen tend to charge more like $1 per megabyte for capacity over your limit.
The two-fingered scroll may be interesting, but what I want to know is whether anyone has bought the XP version and loaded, say, Ubuntu or Fedora on it, either single- or dual-boot. What would be the point in that? You get less storage and pay for an unwanted copy of XP.
I've no doubt you could - there are plenty of instructions on the web for installing, say, Debian on an eeePC.
Really? Better tell that to Wikipedia. Yes, really. Try actually reading the Wikipedia article to which you linked - it confirms exactly what I said. Or look at ISO's own web site, where you'll find exactly the same information.
Good attempt at obfuscation, but still failed. Turning a statement into a slightly different one and then arguing against the changed statement doesn't prove anything - you need to address the actual statement made.
Go and look at any vendors array of available machines. The bottom end currently is 512M of RAM and either a single core processor or an obsolete dual-core. Then you move on to 1G of RAM, then 2G and even in some cases 3G.
2G of RAM is therefore *towards the top end of the range*. It's utterly irrelevant that this kind of top-end spec can now be had for unbelievably little money - it's still not a bottom end spec.
With a gig of RAM, a machine like that is quite usable for basic tasks. It makes you want to weep doesn't it?
"a gig of RAM" (!!!) and the best that can be said of Vista is that it's "quite usable" for "basic tasks".
Funnily enough there are other products around which demonstrate that 1G of RAM is masses to provide a power user with the ability to do all sorts of sophisticated tasks and lots of them at the same time.
I'm typing this on a box with 1G of RAM. I have quite a number of apps open (including Firefox and Thunderbird) and the system monitor in the top bar tells me that less than half of my RAM is in use (and that includes disc cache).
The quote above is just so enlightening about what it is that's terminally wrong with Vista.
"Low end" today is a dual core machine with 2G RAM Hardly. You may live in a different world from the rest of us, but dual core and 2G of RAM is still towards the top end of the catalogue of most suppliers. The low end is now 512M (or if you're lucky, 1G) and one of the last of the single-core processors.
- and it'll run Vista fine. Sure it will - but it isn't by any stretch of the imagination "low end".
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Far from being bullshit, the post you replied to was entirely correct. If you accept payment by credit card for customer-not-present transactions the CC companies always insist that *you* take all the risk. They can at any time decide a transaction was iffy and it's always the vendor who bears the cost.
Vote with your feet. I have several times told retailers that I'd like to buy their product but I won't use Paypal. Usually they offer an alternative means to pay. The few who haven't offered an alternative have at least known *why* they lost my business.
The similarities between Paypal (not a bank) and eBay (not an auction house) are quite marked. They both seem to want to desperately defend there "not a..." position because it means they can have the benefits without the responsibilities. Like so many others I have long refused to use Paypal because of their shifty behaviour. Until Paypal is a proper bank (with all the safeguards that that requires) and eBay admits to being an auction house (ditto) I won't be using either.
Seriously.. what's the problem with it being approved? You mean you haven't been following the story? You should read up on it a bit.
Technical issues? Yes, dozens of them.
Lack of clarity? Yes, in spades.
There are hundreds of other standards that fall into those categories as well, yet they are still standards. Go on - name one that even comes close to Microsoft's pseudo-standard. The OOXML "standard" is so unlike a real ISO standard it's not true.
But no one cried corruption until now.. This looks dangerously like a feeble attempt at astro-turfing.
but isn't Office by any standard definition, a standard? No - that's precisely what it fails to be by any possible definition. You are perhaps being fooled by marketing speak which has attempted to appropriate the word "standard" to mean "common" or "widespread".
The point about a real standard is that it specifies precisely and accurately exactly how something will be done or work so that anyone can interact with it or use it.
Office and OOXML fail every test for standard-hood.
The same, except they use the Julian calendar where the western Christian churches use the Gregorian calendar. The calculation of the Jewish passover uses actual observations of the moon so that may be different again.
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The fact your firewall was disabled shows you already did some interaction.
This comment misses the point. It was quite clear what the question meant and trying to twist around one of the pre-conditions to be one of the others can be intended only to create confusion rather than illumination.
As soon as I saw the headline for this article I thought of the same cartoon. Does anyone know if it's still available on-line anywhere?
Also, 7.7 million of the total came from the US.
Not true! The US is showing a current total of 7.7 million downloads, but that's out of a current world total of 29 million. I couldn't find a figure for how many out of the original 8 million were in the US, but it seems unlikely that all the US users did their download in the first 24 hours and then nobody in the US has downloaded it since.
Something wrong with the timestamp at the bottom of that page. It says it's in GMT but in fact it's 8 hours behind GMT - perhaps somewhere on the west coast of the USA?
HTH
An answer like 1/root(2) conveys far more than 0.7...
I think you're thinking of the NetWinder. They were ARM based. I have a couple in my store.
Even then, just because you have bandwidth doesn't mean you have to saturate it all the time.
I have an 8 Mb/sec link with a 3G cap on daytime usage per month - I use the 'net whenever I want to and I've never come close to hitting that cap. (Not quite true - I did hit it one month when I re-installed a Debian workstation several times.)
I've no doubt you could - there are plenty of instructions on the web for installing, say, Debian on an eeePC.
HTH
Good attempt at obfuscation, but still failed. Turning a statement into a slightly different one and then arguing against the changed statement doesn't prove anything - you need to address the actual statement made.
Go and look at any vendors array of available machines. The bottom end currently is 512M of RAM and either a single core processor or an obsolete dual-core. Then you move on to 1G of RAM, then 2G and even in some cases 3G.
2G of RAM is therefore *towards the top end of the range*. It's utterly irrelevant that this kind of top-end spec can now be had for unbelievably little money - it's still not a bottom end spec.
HTH
"a gig of RAM" (!!!) and the best that can be said of Vista is that it's "quite usable" for "basic tasks".
Funnily enough there are other products around which demonstrate that 1G of RAM is masses to provide a power user with the ability to do all sorts of sophisticated tasks and lots of them at the same time.
I'm typing this on a box with 1G of RAM. I have quite a number of apps open (including Firefox and Thunderbird) and the system monitor in the top bar tells me that less than half of my RAM is in use (and that includes disc cache).
The quote above is just so enlightening about what it is that's terminally wrong with Vista.
Because it is both more than an anti-Vista rant and interesting.
HTH
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Far from being bullshit, the post you replied to was entirely correct. If you accept payment by credit card for customer-not-present transactions the CC companies always insist that *you* take all the risk. They can at any time decide a transaction was iffy and it's always the vendor who bears the cost.
Vote with your feet. I have several times told retailers that I'd like to buy their product but I won't use Paypal. Usually they offer an alternative means to pay. The few who haven't offered an alternative have at least known *why* they lost my business.
The similarities between Paypal (not a bank) and eBay (not an auction house) are quite marked. They both seem to want to desperately defend there "not a ..." position because it means they can have the benefits without the responsibilities. Like so many others I have long refused to use Paypal because of their shifty behaviour. Until Paypal is a proper bank (with all the safeguards that that requires) and eBay admits to being an auction house (ditto) I won't be using either.
The point about a real standard is that it specifies precisely and accurately exactly how something will be done or work so that anyone can interact with it or use it.
Office and OOXML fail every test for standard-hood.
The same, except they use the Julian calendar where the western Christian churches use the Gregorian calendar. The calculation of the Jewish passover uses actual observations of the moon so that may be different again.
You'll find it all on Wikepedia.