I agree that she shouldn't be applauded for finally figuring out she was on 'Candid Camera', but keep in mind that it isn't always in their best interest to find these scammers out.
But she did refuse their business in the end. Thus she would have saved money had she checked the bank phone number and therefor dropped them at the very beginning.
They profit from providing their services to all comers, including those that happen to be in the malware business. Keeping the 'cash engine' running often serves up some blinders.
This is true, and she notes it as a reason not to rely on the sales department to investigate new customers. In the old days this was handled by accounting (in all industries, not just advertising) and there was always tension between them and sales.
The Web is not the world. It isn't even the Net. Plain text still exists. By all means let your typesetting software take care of spacing when creating a typeset document, but don't assume there is no other kind.
...considering almost everyone reads text exclusively in single-space format: either on the web, magazine, newspaper, or book, all of which are 100% single spaced.
Stuff that is typeset in a proportional font is not "single spaced". It is properly kerned. The sentence spaces will appear slightly larger than the word spaces.
I've not researched it, but I'm guessing that the only advantages of the megabus are lower upfront capital outlays (not TCO), and that some highly politically connected group will become extremely wealthy.
I expect somebody will make some money promoting it but I doubt that the thing will ever be built. Just about everywhere there is money to be made "studying" mass-transit "solutions", no matter how loony.
Yes, an "el" (elevated railway) seems more sensible but it does require construction. I do think that the "straddling" idea has not been thought through, though. Better just build gigantic "normal" busses.
First, there are plenty of precedents (some conceptually similar to this case) establishing that regulation very rarely constitutes taking. Second, the purported receipt of "subsidies" real or imagined by some carriers is completely irrelevant.
It's traveling very fast (one day to get here) in pretty much a straight line. It is so much larger and faster than the Earth that orbital motion can be neglected. Link
Yep. The idea has been around for a long time. Radio interferometers have used moving delay lines for a long time.
Well, yes, moving delay lines are bloody well obvious: the Q4 radar used them in the 1950s (and others probably used them earlier). I meant the idea of using two unconnected spacecraft and compensating for drift instead of attaching the telescopes to a rigid beam or attempting perfect stationkeeping. I didn't think that was original with me (as you confirmed).
We understood how to measure the distance between the spacecraft and maintain a fixed distance using movable delay lines on each spacecraft to maintain a two-octave wide null in the white light received from a distant planet, to a level of one part in 10 billion.
So I was right. Others did think of it.
This mission was completely technically feasible. You could have had either an Earth-like planet finder and spectroscopy from earth-like planets, or a few more years of pretty pictures from Hubble, and you chose Hubble.
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Take your business elsewhere.
But she did refuse their business in the end. Thus she would have saved money had she checked the bank phone number and therefor dropped them at the very beginning.
This is true, and she notes it as a reason not to rely on the sales department to investigate new customers. In the old days this was handled by accounting (in all industries, not just advertising) and there was always tension between them and sales.
...is an oxymoron.
So now the projects will actually have to have some merit? Sounds good to me.
> Please don't like Gmail or Google Calendar.
But please do like FaceBook and Twitter.
Better yet, like spam.
Buggy trading software. Since the transactions never complete nobody has noticed (or at least bothered to fix it).
> I mean, seriously, no body &*^&%$*^ cares.
Somebody cares: you. Otherwise you would not have bothered to comment.
> ...there's no such thing as double spaces.
The Web is not the world. It isn't even the Net. Plain text still exists. By all means let your typesetting software take care of spacing when creating a typeset document, but don't assume there is no other kind.
Stuff that is typeset in a proportional font is not "single spaced". It is properly kerned. The sentence spaces will appear slightly larger than the word spaces.
> ...become a much better typesetter...
I'm not interested in becoming a typesetter at all. That's Knuth's job.
Not only that, they're so bad I can't even see the apostrophe in your sentence.
One of the many deficiencies of HTML.
...was properly two spaces."
Like hell we did.
I expect somebody will make some money promoting it but I doubt that the thing will ever be built. Just about everywhere there is money to be made "studying" mass-transit "solutions", no matter how loony.
I think it's really cool, as long as it stays on somebody else's road.
Yes, an "el" (elevated railway) seems more sensible but it does require construction. I do think that the "straddling" idea has not been thought through, though. Better just build gigantic "normal" busses.
With that thing on the road, you WILL.
> Well, judging by truck drivers here in the states trying to drive under bridges...
The most common cause of that is incorrect or missing clearence signs.
First, there are plenty of precedents (some conceptually similar to this case) establishing that regulation very rarely constitutes taking. Second, the purported receipt of "subsidies" real or imagined by some carriers is completely irrelevant.
> Why would Oracle do something like this?
It's Ellison cleaning out McNealy's office.
Neither. It's one of those solar flares that might cause some mildly entertaining Northern Lights.
It's traveling very fast (one day to get here) in pretty much a straight line. It is so much larger and faster than the Earth that orbital motion can be neglected. Link
Well, yes, moving delay lines are bloody well obvious: the Q4 radar used them in the 1950s (and others probably used them earlier). I meant the idea of using two unconnected spacecraft and compensating for drift instead of attaching the telescopes to a rigid beam or attempting perfect stationkeeping. I didn't think that was original with me (as you confirmed).
100% CGI for most movies will be standard sooner than you think.
> ...movie/show with a decent story...
They quit making those in the middle of the last century.
So I was right. Others did think of it.
No, I didn't. I was not consulted.