I share the same thoughts about what UK Health Services is doing with telling schoolchildren "masturbation is good"
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UK Gov't Health tells kids to masturbate;Parents are angry. But when you have a monopoly, customer opinions don't matter
Where are you getting this info? I assume by "UK Health Services", you're referring to the NHS, but the top 2 google hits on NHS masturbation were one page saying (paraphrased) "social values have changed, it's no longer taboo" and another being a description of study that found masturbation at a young age may be linked to prostate cancer. Neither of those seem to be a call for the youth of Britain to get down with their bad selves.
Why are all the prices in British Pounds? Did they just annex all those countries overnight or is the author of the article a lazy bastard?
The prices are in British Pounds, because the linked article is on a UK website. The author of the article is someone who is reporting the news to people in his country of origin.
Congratulations on discovering that there's an entire world outside your country's borders!
If it's on the same multiplex, it's quite easy to do (with DVB, anyway, dunno what sort of craziness might be involved in ATSC).
If it's not on the same multiplex, you'd need at least one other tuner in the box (2 if sequential "channel" numbers are all on different multiplexes). Quite often that's the case, though, particularly in boxes which offer picture-in-picture or "record one channel, watch another" type functionality.
The quote was taken slightly out of context - it started like this:
Unsolicited tip for media company c-levels:if your reaction to this...
I believe the suggestion is that if said media people are thinking like that, they're going to be out of a job soon, and should consider buying cheap food and attempting to make industry contacts in order to assist with getting a new job.
So you're complaining that you've invested in the wrong hardware and software?
Maybe look at it this way - to build for WinMob, you're going to need to build a windows VM (windows vista home premium: $240) and then you're going to need to get visual studio (standard: $299). I make that $539 total, for some software.
If you want to build for iPhone, you need a mac mini ($599 for the basic model) and a $0 download of Xcode.
So you're moaning about the fact that you have to pay $60 to get a mac mini.
I don't know about the retention time, but the information on that web form is *exactly* the same as the I94-W Visa Waiver form that I've been filling in every time I've visited the US over the last 11 years (from the UK, where I was born and Canada, where I live).
The fingerprint scanning and photography has been going on at least the last 5 years.
There's nothing new there, as far as I'm concerned, with the exception that some fields are marked as optional, whereas on the paper form the implication is that all fields are mandatory.
If anything it's beneficial because I don't have to fill out the information on a bit of paper every time I go, and wait for the border guy to copy it into his computer. If I could save the form information (I didn't do a full application, so I don't know whether I can or not) I'd be a happy traveller.
Maybe they (Gasp, shock, swoon) have two different motivations at the same time, or there are at least two people working on it that both have either one or the other motivation
Because he's trying to get at the binary representation of the IEEE754 floating point number, which he then manipulates a bit, and puts back where it was.
With your suggested code, you'd be operating on the actual number, casting the float to an int, which would just be throwing away a bunch of information.
If you'd read page linked to by cliffski, you'd have seen this:
We have now discovered that in addition to the models covered by the announcement made in October 2005, 8 further Digital Still Camera models (DSC-T1, DSC-T11, DSC-T3, DSC-T33, DSC-U40, DSC-U50, DSC-F88, DSC-M1) may suffer from the same condition
and then the big long list.
I, too, am saddled with a DSC-P72, but sadly the shitness described seems to be a different kind of shitness from that exhibited by mine, so no free fix for me. On the plus side, that does mean I can just bin it and get something from a more reputable manufacturer.
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I feel the need to congratulate you on your +5, Informative mod.
Gooo, then. Or Goooooooooooooooo.
Actually, in honour of my crappy nick, they should call it gotoo.
You're right on the first 2 counts, but I think my wife might object to the 3rd.
Where are you getting this info? I assume by "UK Health Services", you're referring to the NHS, but the top 2 google hits on NHS masturbation were one page saying (paraphrased) "social values have changed, it's no longer taboo" and another being a description of study that found masturbation at a young age may be linked to prostate cancer. Neither of those seem to be a call for the youth of Britain to get down with their bad selves.
I appreciated them, FWIW.
Trust a slashdotter to skew the conversation around to robotic life partners eventually.
Best post ever.
I LOL'd IRL
I certainly remember seeing a TV programme in the UK about the phenomenon, and I haven't lived there for over 5 years.
The prices are in British Pounds, because the linked article is on a UK website. The author of the article is someone who is reporting the news to people in his country of origin. Congratulations on discovering that there's an entire world outside your country's borders!
If it's on the same multiplex, it's quite easy to do (with DVB, anyway, dunno what sort of craziness might be involved in ATSC).
If it's not on the same multiplex, you'd need at least one other tuner in the box (2 if sequential "channel" numbers are all on different multiplexes). Quite often that's the case, though, particularly in boxes which offer picture-in-picture or "record one channel, watch another" type functionality.
Badda bing!
Sorry if it's been done.
... are using one to host their website.
You're joking, right?
I believe the suggestion is that if said media people are thinking like that, they're going to be out of a job soon, and should consider buying cheap food and attempting to make industry contacts in order to assist with getting a new job.
They can just ask the Mac Business Unit to hold off on working on MS Office for Mac for a little bit while they borrow one of the Macs they work on.
Or they could borrow that macbook pro off the songsmith girl.
So you're complaining that you've invested in the wrong hardware and software?
Maybe look at it this way - to build for WinMob, you're going to need to build a windows VM (windows vista home premium: $240) and then you're going to need to get visual studio (standard: $299). I make that $539 total, for some software.
If you want to build for iPhone, you need a mac mini ($599 for the basic model) and a $0 download of Xcode.
So you're moaning about the fact that you have to pay $60 to get a mac mini.
FYI, the Pre does have a keypad - the back of the device slides down to reveal it.
http://www.palm.com/us/assets/images/products/phones/detail/pre/gallery/pre_05.png
I don't know about the retention time, but the information on that web form is *exactly* the same as the I94-W Visa Waiver form that I've been filling in every time I've visited the US over the last 11 years (from the UK, where I was born and Canada, where I live).
The fingerprint scanning and photography has been going on at least the last 5 years.
There's nothing new there, as far as I'm concerned, with the exception that some fields are marked as optional, whereas on the paper form the implication is that all fields are mandatory.
If anything it's beneficial because I don't have to fill out the information on a bit of paper every time I go, and wait for the border guy to copy it into his computer. If I could save the form information (I didn't do a full application, so I don't know whether I can or not) I'd be a happy traveller.
Maybe that'll help guide Dell's opinion of whether people want Linux on their PCs.
Don't be daft! Next you'll be saying the whole company has degenerated into a series of disconnected fiefdoms that aren't all moving in the same direction!
Because he's trying to get at the binary representation of the IEEE754 floating point number, which he then manipulates a bit, and puts back where it was.
With your suggested code, you'd be operating on the actual number, casting the float to an int, which would just be throwing away a bunch of information.
Pickled ginger FTW!
and then the big long list.
I, too, am saddled with a DSC-P72, but sadly the shitness described seems to be a different kind of shitness from that exhibited by mine, so no free fix for me. On the plus side, that does mean I can just bin it and get something from a more reputable manufacturer.
It's because they all work for Sony.