I remember when Microsoft claimed their browser was so ingrained into the use of the computer it was part of the operating system...
If your browser is always running you'll only see the splash screen once a day, or less if you don't log out at night. Plus there's going to be a 'Dont show splash screen' checkbox isn't there?
Anyway, you're not having an aneurysm, it's lupus.
Lots of software has splash screens, and most people don't have an aneurysm over them. You pop up the brand, mention the trademarks, and in the meantime the software is doing it's thing.
Nice software has an option to turn off the splash screen. But you will probably see it the first time.
Clicking through an "agreement" to not violate their trademark/copyright is dumb. I mean, I've never agreed not to murder anyone...
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LHC Success!
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Not totally correct! The protons are only going in one direction at the moment, but they do still collide with stray gas atoms and molecules in the vacuum of the ring (which isn't a perfect vacuum). These events can show up in the detectors (but they're a bit weird for a couple of reasons - they don't happen at the centre of the detector and the gas molecule is relatively stationary when it gets clobbered sideways by a relativistic bunch of quarks and gluons). The detectors are designed to not trigger on non-central events but I imagine they can tweak the settings to pick them up, they are a bit useful for testing and calibration when there's only one beam in the ring.
I was doing particle physics umpteen years ago when the previous accelerator in the LHC ring, LEP, came online, and there wasn't 1/10 of the publicity that the LHC is getting!
There's at least one camera crew on campus today filming our HEP department.
"No disassembly" doesn't mean you can't tap onto the drive's external circuit board, where you *might* just be able to get the voltages before they go digital, unless the ADC circuitry is inside the housing...
If they warned you beforehand you might not make that call, and then they wouldn't get their money. For the same reason it's probably impossible to get a phone that tells you how much a call is costing as you make it. If the dollars and cents or pounds and pence are spinning away then you're going to stop yakking and get off asap. And then the phone company make less money, which is what it's all about.
Yup, they probably know they'll get the odd case where someone will rack up 20,000 in call charges, which they will probably dither about for a while and then settle for a couple of hundred instead (because they know they're never getting 20k out of John Doe), but they're more interested in the little wins they get every time you hang on the phone five seconds longer than you really have to....
If your ISP has accounts with caps, then the chances are they'll have a page where people can go check the usage on their accounts. Log in to your ISP's 'Customer Portal' if they have one, and you can probably find out.
I've got an uncapped account and my provider has this - they've got historical data going back to May 2006.
Good job you weren't on a 2-week holiday and missed the notice. Yes, sure, one phone call fixes everything. Read the Money pages in any good newspaper for stories where - O RLY? - banks mess up.
I'm keeping my money under my bed. Kids, get out of my yard. Aren't policemen looking younger?
Over here in the UK some companies give you a discount on your account if you pay by Direct Debit (basically an instruction to your bank to give the company whatever they ask for each month). I say 'discount', of course it's really an extra fee for doing the work yourself. If you pay online with a card you pay extra. I think for my phone company it's an extra GBP4 per quarter.
Companies over here love Direct Debits. Every bill comes with a 'why not pay by Direct Debit?' leaflet. Sadly there's no tick box for "I really don't trust you". Stories of epic fails with DDs are legion - an extra zero on the bill makes the person go overdrawn, they get a bad credit record, they lose their house, they kill all their family and so on. I exaggerate. Slightly.
Sometimes I feel I'm the only one not paying by DD, but that's what they want me to feel...
Not really, it all depends on the cable! I just had my house re-roofed, and up there in the eaves were a bunch of old cables and a plastic box marked 'Rediffusion':
I think that system delivered about 5 tv channels, probably in black and white too. Nowadays I get 40 TV and radio channels over a terrestrial wireless broadcast system.
- it points out all the guff in "Loose Change". Checks in with real experts, shows the pictures that Loose Change didn't bother showing (because it doesn't agree with their version of events), and explains everything the 'truthers' try to point out.
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China Blocks iTunes
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I'm having trouble finding out what treaties and conventions the Chinese government has actually ratified or signed, but when they say they will - or will work towards - abiding by this or that UN Human Rights agreement, then yes, it is our business.
"The covenant is a 29-year-old agreement that calls on nations to let their people freely determine their political status and not be arbitrarily arrested. China signed the agreement in 1998, but has not ratified it."
I'm quite happy for them to torture, murder, enslave, and restrict the activities of their own people as much as they like as long as they admit it. No problem. But when they say 'oh, we're nice people really' and carry on, well then I just CANT STAND hypocrisy....
My usual lunchtime shop has trouble reading BARCODES on half the stuff I buy. Swipe, nothing, swipe, nothing, swipe, nothing... Type in tiny number, beep. Yeah, that's time saving. And now I'm being told computers can tell the difference between tangerines and satsumas? Heck, I can't even do that!
I call shenanigans. Either:
* each vegetable has a secret RFID chip in it or
* the picture is sent to some outsourced call centre where someone sits at a screen watching vegetables all day and clicking on what they are.
Slashdot Mirror
I remember when Microsoft claimed their browser was so ingrained into the use of the computer it was part of the operating system...
If your browser is always running you'll only see the splash screen once a day, or less if you don't log out at night. Plus there's going to be a 'Dont show splash screen' checkbox isn't there?
Anyway, you're not having an aneurysm, it's lupus.
Lots of software has splash screens, and most people don't have an aneurysm over them. You pop up the brand, mention the trademarks, and in the meantime the software is doing it's thing.
Nice software has an option to turn off the splash screen. But you will probably see it the first time.
Clicking through an "agreement" to not violate their trademark/copyright is dumb. I mean, I've never agreed not to murder anyone...
Not totally correct! The protons are only going in one direction at the moment, but they do still collide with stray gas atoms and molecules in the vacuum of the ring (which isn't a perfect vacuum). These events can show up in the detectors (but they're a bit weird for a couple of reasons - they don't happen at the centre of the detector and the gas molecule is relatively stationary when it gets clobbered sideways by a relativistic bunch of quarks and gluons). The detectors are designed to not trigger on non-central events but I imagine they can tweak the settings to pick them up, they are a bit useful for testing and calibration when there's only one beam in the ring.
I was doing particle physics umpteen years ago when the previous accelerator in the LHC ring, LEP, came online, and there wasn't 1/10 of the publicity that the LHC is getting!
There's at least one camera crew on campus today filming our HEP department.
I'm sure such an application will appear on the iPhone store... for about twenty minutes before it gets pulled.
Now, if you've got an Android phone...
"No disassembly" doesn't mean you can't tap onto the drive's external circuit board, where you *might* just be able to get the voltages before they go digital, unless the ADC circuitry is inside the housing...
If they warned you beforehand you might not make that call, and then they wouldn't get their money. For the same reason it's probably impossible to get a phone that tells you how much a call is costing as you make it. If the dollars and cents or pounds and pence are spinning away then you're going to stop yakking and get off asap. And then the phone company make less money, which is what it's all about.
Yup, they probably know they'll get the odd case where someone will rack up 20,000 in call charges, which they will probably dither about for a while and then settle for a couple of hundred instead (because they know they're never getting 20k out of John Doe), but they're more interested in the little wins they get every time you hang on the phone five seconds longer than you really have to....
Also, it's an anagram of 'Go Ogle', which, considering what The Internet Is For, is appropriate...
Wow, until I looked at those pics I didn't realise 'Google!' was an anagram of 'Go Lego!'
Too true. It's supposed to be a review of Google Chrome and when you get near the end it says "I have yet to download Google's Chrome browser.".
Animated Favicons == Today's BLINK tag.
Brillant.
I'll start using Chrome the instant they have a plugin that blocks annoying flashing multi-colour favicons.
[for those who haven't read the links, just go to the second so-called 'review' link, which is really a review of reviews...]
No doc comments!
And you are brillant!
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean.aspx
I like 'improper copper'.
If your ISP has accounts with caps, then the chances are they'll have a page where people can go check the usage on their accounts. Log in to your ISP's 'Customer Portal' if they have one, and you can probably find out.
I've got an uncapped account and my provider has this - they've got historical data going back to May 2006.
Good job you weren't on a 2-week holiday and missed the notice. Yes, sure, one phone call fixes everything. Read the Money pages in any good newspaper for stories where - O RLY? - banks mess up.
I'm keeping my money under my bed. Kids, get out of my yard. Aren't policemen looking younger?
Because it's cheaper?
Over here in the UK some companies give you a discount on your account if you pay by Direct Debit (basically an instruction to your bank to give the company whatever they ask for each month). I say 'discount', of course it's really an extra fee for doing the work yourself. If you pay online with a card you pay extra. I think for my phone company it's an extra GBP4 per quarter.
Companies over here love Direct Debits. Every bill comes with a 'why not pay by Direct Debit?' leaflet. Sadly there's no tick box for "I really don't trust you". Stories of epic fails with DDs are legion - an extra zero on the bill makes the person go overdrawn, they get a bad credit record, they lose their house, they kill all their family and so on. I exaggerate. Slightly.
Sometimes I feel I'm the only one not paying by DD, but that's what they want me to feel...
Not really, it all depends on the cable! I just had my house re-roofed, and up there in the eaves were a bunch of old cables and a plastic box marked 'Rediffusion':
http://rediffusion.info/cablestory.html
I think that system delivered about 5 tv channels, probably in black and white too. Nowadays I get 40 TV and radio channels over a terrestrial wireless broadcast system.
I'm going to re-watch 2001 and see if Dave has a USB stick in any of the shots. Maybe I'll just photoedit one in....
Use a power strip with switches on each output, then only switch on the ones you want.
Ooh I just read down a bit further and discovered that yay, it does have it.
Something else that's been massively translated:
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/
I can't find a list of contents for the Rosetta Disk but hopefully it has this in bigger print than Genesis...
Read this:
http://www.loosechangeguide.com/LooseChangeGuide.html
- it points out all the guff in "Loose Change". Checks in with real experts, shows the pictures that Loose Change didn't bother showing (because it doesn't agree with their version of events), and explains everything the 'truthers' try to point out.
I'm having trouble finding out what treaties and conventions the Chinese government has actually ratified or signed, but when they say they will - or will work towards - abiding by this or that UN Human Rights agreement, then yes, it is our business.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2005_Sept_5/ai_n15403393
"The covenant is a 29-year-old agreement that calls on nations to let their people freely determine their political status and not be arbitrarily arrested. China signed the agreement in 1998, but has not ratified it."
I'm quite happy for them to torture, murder, enslave, and restrict the activities of their own people as much as they like as long as they admit it. No problem. But when they say 'oh, we're nice people really' and carry on, well then I just CANT STAND hypocrisy....
I was going to say 'tits or gtfo' but then I realised this was slashdot, not 4chan...
My usual lunchtime shop has trouble reading BARCODES on half the stuff I buy. Swipe, nothing, swipe, nothing, swipe, nothing... Type in tiny number, beep. Yeah, that's time saving. And now I'm being told computers can tell the difference between tangerines and satsumas? Heck, I can't even do that!
I call shenanigans. Either:
* each vegetable has a secret RFID chip in it
or
* the picture is sent to some outsourced call centre where someone sits at a screen watching vegetables all day and clicking on what they are.