TBH, at the point where the rep said "0.002 per KB sent [...] 0.002 cents per KB", I would've assumed that the computer got it right, they got it wrong, and the price is $0.002/KB. I'm unsure as to why this guy bothered to go on. Were they really going to charge him 1% of their usual price because some bonehead in customer services quoted him wrong? I'm realistic enough to know that aint gonna happen.
I don't disagree that there is a huge wealth disparity in the world, but that site is a little misleading as it doesn't take into account the cost of living in a country. $1 in the UK is worth way less than $1 in Malawi, I'll bet.
What I do, in SimCity 2000, is build a few hills. Then, I apply 'water' to each tile of the hill, and build a hydroelectric damn on each one. Best form of power by far; no explosions, breakdowns, and lots of power per square.
Am I really the only person who think translucent windows look *SHIT*? Not just a bit annoying, but truly *SHIT*. I've been viewing loads of screenshots (haven't actually installed it) trying to like them, but I just don't get the hype. I think they looks ugly and retarded; I don't want background crud coming through to mess up the windows on top. Although ribbons seem to look nice, the rest of the 'visual upgrades' are very tenuous.
Heh. If activation is the worst problem, that's an upgrade from XP. Whenever I install a new motherboard on an XP machine, I just reinstall the OS by default now. I've had XP just refuse to boot on me before with a new motherboard in there. There should be some 'new hardware configuration from scratch' option, but there isn't. XP just seems to get it into its head that you have a certain chipset, CPU, RAM type, etc. and buggers up if that stuff changes.
Yeah, none of these are opinions, they're stated objectively; that's what Wikipedia's about, isn't it? Surely the difference is that the Chinese Wikipedia (or other information sources) are censoring *objective* facts?
It's simply an extra redundancy, it's completely irrelevant to the human spot checking of the validity of the votes. The more redundancy the better.
Agreed.
The ideal system would require you to be a registered voter. After receiving your voting ID card by registered mail a few weeks before polling day, you walk into the booth and swipe the card in front of a mechanical lever machine. After choosing your candidate, you swipe the card in front of an electronic voting machine, and make the same choice. You're handed a black marker, and make the same choice on a handwritten card, then also on a punch card. After all the voting slips are compared, you're led to a fingerprint reader (if they were all the same). Your fingerprint is taken and compared with that on your voting ID card. If that checks out, you're allowed into a menu that lets you choose your candidates again, by touchscreen, and requiring a verbal confirmation. This machine prints out a slip, the candidate selections on which must match the selections on the other slips. All the slips are put into the voting box, and the result of the count must be divided by 5. If the slip count is not divisible by 5, a recount is required.
Until the popularity and ubiquity of Windows leads to MS's successful lobbying of hardware manufacturers to impose tough DRM restrictions, preventing non-MS OS's and/or software from [accessing some media|booting on your machine].
Not really. The Conservatives were getting quite critical of the war by last election, moreso than Labour (under Blair, of course). And, no party would've been elected with an overall majority, which would've been a lot better. The Lib Dems would have a much bigger voice than they do now, and a PR system would strongly encourage a larger variety of voices/parties into the mix as well, in the medium/long term.
blind people are completely incapable of judging size anyway as it has no meaning to them; theirs is a world without size, colour, distance or space.
I can agree with you on colour, but without size, distance or space? I don't think so; they'd have trouble doing anything at all if they couldn't perceive those. Check out this guy.
Perhaps if it renders correectly in IE6, you might want to try putting IE7 into quirks mode. Specify the DOCTYPE as the HTML 4.01 transitional, and put an HTML comment right at the beginning of the document, before the doctype.
Yes, I've read the article before. Your arguments basically consist of: - Perl is tough to read. Big deal, I find it easy enough. - Perl isn't what I'm used to. Big deal, I find it fine. - Perl lets you change classes at runtime. Big deal, it was designed mainly as a procedural not an OOP language anyway. - There are too many ways to do things. This I love about Perl, and being able to be quite lazy makes it easy to program in.
It mightn't be the best language to write large-scale maintainable code in, but it sure is a damn good language to hack up (even quite complex) web scripts.
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TBH, at the point where the rep said "0.002 per KB sent [...] 0.002 cents per KB", I would've assumed that the computer got it right, they got it wrong, and the price is $0.002/KB. I'm unsure as to why this guy bothered to go on. Were they really going to charge him 1% of their usual price because some bonehead in customer services quoted him wrong? I'm realistic enough to know that aint gonna happen.
Can it travel through time when it reaches 88MPH?
"ERROR
Sorry, this page is not available in your country."
Looks like they REALLY don't want people buying that Norah Jones crap.
Just like that time he said "640k should be enough for anyone... [applause] on top of their petabyte capacity 100Gbit SAN!"
I don't disagree that there is a huge wealth disparity in the world, but that site is a little misleading as it doesn't take into account the cost of living in a country. $1 in the UK is worth way less than $1 in Malawi, I'll bet.
What I do, in SimCity 2000, is build a few hills. Then, I apply 'water' to each tile of the hill, and build a hydroelectric damn on each one. Best form of power by far; no explosions, breakdowns, and lots of power per square.
:-P
Hmm. Wonder how realistic this is.
so you don't have to use as large of a device
Is 'large' measuring quantity or describing an entire entity?
If the former, you use OF.
If the latter, you DON'T.
You shouldn't have used the 'of'.
Oh tell me about it.
I have no idea how people can use imperial measurements. All we have to say is '1 litre'; they have to somehow remember 2.11337641 pints!!
I'm sorry, but you've just used my two BIGGEST grammar bugbears in the same goddamn post. Let me correct you:
the OSS OS world can now freely be just as strong of a competitor
the OSS OS world can now freely be just as strong A competitor
If OpenDocument would have just been more 'open' about robust features
If OpenDocument HAD just been more 'open' about robust features
Now please, do not do that again. Fix your grammar!
Microsoft shipped me wrapped boxes of horse shit, and left them on fire at my doorstep, and the still dominate. Yay.
great to look at
Am I really the only person who think translucent windows look *SHIT*? Not just a bit annoying, but truly *SHIT*. I've been viewing loads of screenshots (haven't actually installed it) trying to like them, but I just don't get the hype. I think they looks ugly and retarded; I don't want background crud coming through to mess up the windows on top. Although ribbons seem to look nice, the rest of the 'visual upgrades' are very tenuous.
Heh. If activation is the worst problem, that's an upgrade from XP. Whenever I install a new motherboard on an XP machine, I just reinstall the OS by default now. I've had XP just refuse to boot on me before with a new motherboard in there. There should be some 'new hardware configuration from scratch' option, but there isn't. XP just seems to get it into its head that you have a certain chipset, CPU, RAM type, etc. and buggers up if that stuff changes.
If I give away 80% of my (modest) wealth, does that make me as 'great' a philanthropist?
Good thing Bush read his soul through his eyes, and pronounced him a trustworthy man.
By Bush's standards, he is.
Try putting any of these on english Wikipedia, and see how long they last.
Here ya go.
Yeah, none of these are opinions, they're stated objectively; that's what Wikipedia's about, isn't it? Surely the difference is that the Chinese Wikipedia (or other information sources) are censoring *objective* facts?
It's simply an extra redundancy, it's completely irrelevant to the human spot checking of the validity of the votes. The more redundancy the better.
Agreed.
The ideal system would require you to be a registered voter. After receiving your voting ID card by registered mail a few weeks before polling day, you walk into the booth and swipe the card in front of a mechanical lever machine. After choosing your candidate, you swipe the card in front of an electronic voting machine, and make the same choice. You're handed a black marker, and make the same choice on a handwritten card, then also on a punch card. After all the voting slips are compared, you're led to a fingerprint reader (if they were all the same). Your fingerprint is taken and compared with that on your voting ID card. If that checks out, you're allowed into a menu that lets you choose your candidates again, by touchscreen, and requiring a verbal confirmation. This machine prints out a slip, the candidate selections on which must match the selections on the other slips. All the slips are put into the voting box, and the result of the count must be divided by 5. If the slip count is not divisible by 5, a recount is required.
Harder to crack.
Fair enough. Obviously, the average voter wasn't mature enough to be subjected to such material.
Ahem...
Until the popularity and ubiquity of Windows leads to MS's successful lobbying of hardware manufacturers to impose tough DRM restrictions, preventing non-MS OS's and/or software from [accessing some media|booting on your machine].
Not really. The Conservatives were getting quite critical of the war by last election, moreso than Labour (under Blair, of course). And, no party would've been elected with an overall majority, which would've been a lot better. The Lib Dems would have a much bigger voice than they do now, and a PR system would strongly encourage a larger variety of voices/parties into the mix as well, in the medium/long term.
No, England didn't.
And the rest of the UK certainly hardly gave them a 'resounding' victory. Our electoral system did.
blind people are completely incapable of judging size anyway as it has no meaning to them; theirs is a world without size, colour, distance or space.
I can agree with you on colour, but without size, distance or space? I don't think so; they'd have trouble doing anything at all if they couldn't perceive those. Check out this guy.
Perhaps if it renders correectly in IE6, you might want to try putting IE7 into quirks mode. Specify the DOCTYPE as the HTML 4.01 transitional, and put an HTML comment right at the beginning of the document, before the doctype.
Indeed it is over simplifying to say that religions are completely static, but certain tenants are, in fact, immutable.
Yeah, the Pope never shuts up.
And even then you didn't link properly...
a ice.html
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020820southse
Yes, I've read the article before. Your arguments basically consist of:
- Perl is tough to read. Big deal, I find it easy enough.
- Perl isn't what I'm used to. Big deal, I find it fine.
- Perl lets you change classes at runtime. Big deal, it was designed mainly as a procedural not an OOP language anyway.
- There are too many ways to do things. This I love about Perl, and being able to be quite lazy makes it easy to program in.
It mightn't be the best language to write large-scale maintainable code in, but it sure is a damn good language to hack up (even quite complex) web scripts.