Egads, I'm sorry to dump on you but I remember when posters on slashdot knew their calculus 101 and some really elementary facts about numbers. If pi had a repeating pattern, it would be a rational number. If it was a rational number, that pattern would appear in any number base, it's a simple property of numbers that has nothing to do with the base you express it in.
The UK maintains a few imperial measurements - miles for distances/speed on the roads, pints for beer in pubs and milk in pint bottles, and most people measure everyday length in feet and inches and calculate their weight in stones. There are also lots of random holdovers as well, like nut and bolt sizes, and many foods are packaged in what would be imperial units (like 454g).
Yes. Slagging someone over the fact that their native language does not include certain phonemes isn't funny though, it's just pathetic. Humour around race can be funny (Jon Stewart is pretty good at walking the line), but in this case, it's really not funny at all. It's just pointing fingers and shouting "DIFFERENT!".
I recently ran shred/dev/sdb on a hard drive I wanted nuked and left it overnight. On a 60GB drive, it only managed 6 out of 25 passes, and I don't know for a fact that that drive allows access to sectors it has marked as bad.
Welcome to marketing 101. Of course not; there is immense value in the Beatles being "other" from the mainstream music market. A few other people, like Neil Young and Bob Dylan also have this kind of aura and it does wonders for them.
Have you ever tried to licence anything from the Beatles? It's not quite as simple as you paint it. They certainly don't sell their stuff to the highest bidder, regardless.
Worthy they certainly are, but they also have an annual income of ~£150m, an operating surplus of ~£30m, and long term investments of something like £300m. They also run a final salary scheme for their 3000 odd employees.
This is something that does annoy me about Wikipedia: stupid, blithering, pointless arguments about not using primary sources. I have seen editors redact plot summaries because the only cite given was the book or film in question, and not an independent review. What the fuck? That's not encyclopaedic, that's braindead.
No, people who take it too seriously are illegitimate. Seriously, I edit a few article in my area of knowledge, I correct egregious errors, I occasionally point to sources or make a suggestion on a talk page. I've run across a few dickwads, certainly, but really, for the most part I don't have problems editing Wikipedia. The people who do take it far too seriously and should go and take a walk in the fresh air or something.
Personally I can't stand to listen to auto-tuned vocals: thirds and fifths sound horribly unnatural as the interval gets stretched and compressed respectively. It's like listening to a singing piano.
Well, this sort of thing is what happens when you program in C. Obscure bugs happen, particularly in a large piece of code like a kernel; after all, no-one can trace every execution path. The difference? I now know what happened, what caused it, and that it's fixed. On Windows? "Updates are ready for your computer". Is that really a better feeling? If so, psychology is beating logic.
Hey, I recently started reading this really great newspaper for people that think like you and me. It tells the truth about what's going on out there, and it's called the Daily Mail.
Apart from the law under discussion, no: the only difference is that in the UK your lack of co-operation can be brought up in court, which I don't really have a problem with. I suspect that once these cases get dragged through the appeals system, the law will be found incompatible with rights legislation.
Actually, it is a myth that consumer credit did not exist until recent times. The credit card was *invented* as a direct replacement for individual stores all maintaining their own credit books and having to bill monthly. In Victorian England, it was quite normal to walk into a strange shop and have the bill sent to you while you walked out with the goods.
I don't know if the US runs its credit report system differently than us, but over here the credit report is a factual report: how much you owe each month, to whom, and your account status (late, on time, default, etc). Scoring is done by independent institutions.
Manage your email server? Only the most valuable information resource in a typical company? And you'd let any dickhead off the streets have access to it?
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Egads, I'm sorry to dump on you but I remember when posters on slashdot knew their calculus 101 and some really elementary facts about numbers. If pi had a repeating pattern, it would be a rational number. If it was a rational number, that pattern would appear in any number base, it's a simple property of numbers that has nothing to do with the base you express it in.
The UK maintains a few imperial measurements - miles for distances/speed on the roads, pints for beer in pubs and milk in pint bottles, and most people measure everyday length in feet and inches and calculate their weight in stones. There are also lots of random holdovers as well, like nut and bolt sizes, and many foods are packaged in what would be imperial units (like 454g).
Yes. Slagging someone over the fact that their native language does not include certain phonemes isn't funny though, it's just pathetic. Humour around race can be funny (Jon Stewart is pretty good at walking the line), but in this case, it's really not funny at all. It's just pointing fingers and shouting "DIFFERENT!".
Dear /.: Silly racism is not +1 Funny, it is just sad.
Mod -1, Whoosh ;)
I recently ran shred /dev/sdb on a hard drive I wanted nuked and left it overnight. On a 60GB drive, it only managed 6 out of 25 passes, and I don't know for a fact that that drive allows access to sectors it has marked as bad.
Welcome to marketing 101. Of course not; there is immense value in the Beatles being "other" from the mainstream music market. A few other people, like Neil Young and Bob Dylan also have this kind of aura and it does wonders for them.
Have you ever tried to licence anything from the Beatles? It's not quite as simple as you paint it. They certainly don't sell their stuff to the highest bidder, regardless.
Worthy they certainly are, but they also have an annual income of ~£150m, an operating surplus of ~£30m, and long term investments of something like £300m. They also run a final salary scheme for their 3000 odd employees.
If all it took to run an army was a decent book, anyone with The Art of War could have rolled over Western Europe by now.
This is something that does annoy me about Wikipedia: stupid, blithering, pointless arguments about not using primary sources. I have seen editors redact plot summaries because the only cite given was the book or film in question, and not an independent review. What the fuck? That's not encyclopaedic, that's braindead.
No, people who take it too seriously are illegitimate. Seriously, I edit a few article in my area of knowledge, I correct egregious errors, I occasionally point to sources or make a suggestion on a talk page. I've run across a few dickwads, certainly, but really, for the most part I don't have problems editing Wikipedia. The people who do take it far too seriously and should go and take a walk in the fresh air or something.
Personally I can't stand to listen to auto-tuned vocals: thirds and fifths sound horribly unnatural as the interval gets stretched and compressed respectively. It's like listening to a singing piano.
Well, this sort of thing is what happens when you program in C. Obscure bugs happen, particularly in a large piece of code like a kernel; after all, no-one can trace every execution path. The difference? I now know what happened, what caused it, and that it's fixed. On Windows? "Updates are ready for your computer". Is that really a better feeling? If so, psychology is beating logic.
Yeah, so did mine. It's wierd.
Hey, I recently started reading this really great newspaper for people that think like you and me. It tells the truth about what's going on out there, and it's called the Daily Mail.
If you think the UK's power distribution and generation infrastructure is bad, you should see America's.
It's not that clear-cut, actually. Cash handling is expensive, although it has more of a fixed cost element than CC fees.
Apart from the law under discussion, no: the only difference is that in the UK your lack of co-operation can be brought up in court, which I don't really have a problem with. I suspect that once these cases get dragged through the appeals system, the law will be found incompatible with rights legislation.
They're encouraging innovation by forcing us all to write our own tools!
Sorry, you are wrong, at least in Western law. You are not and have never been under any obligation to assist law enforcement's investigation of you.
Actually, it is a myth that consumer credit did not exist until recent times. The credit card was *invented* as a direct replacement for individual stores all maintaining their own credit books and having to bill monthly. In Victorian England, it was quite normal to walk into a strange shop and have the bill sent to you while you walked out with the goods.
I don't know if the US runs its credit report system differently than us, but over here the credit report is a factual report: how much you owe each month, to whom, and your account status (late, on time, default, etc). Scoring is done by independent institutions.
Oh lordy. And if you already have half a dozen loans? Then what? Protip: Yes, we do.
Manage your email server? Only the most valuable information resource in a typical company? And you'd let any dickhead off the streets have access to it?