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Not to mention the 'extreme skill used in smashing the plate-glass window' (paraphrased, not willing to watch the sensationalist bulletin again just to quote verbatim)
Why would anybody develop a repository when all you have to do is Google it, clicky click the pretty blue link, and lo and behold it's installed (ignoring the plethora of security checks of course, making sure you really meant to install that piece of software).
Because that's a big contributor to the amount of malware running on Windows machines.
I have lived in NZ my entire life and I can attest this statement is the most correct, concise description of our country.
My son broke his arm on Sunday. First thing I did was get online to see if there were any reasonably priced flights to countries with real hospitals full of real doctors.
Well, if this email and it's offensive caps was the best her employer could do in citing a reason, I'd wager they didn't have jack shit on her in terms of specific misconduct.
So she didn't get on with her co-workers all that well - so what? In my experience the black sheep are often the best workers - especially if their position might cause other staff to 'butter up' the person for some kind of favour (exemption from email/web blocking policy, for example).
Basically, after you've worked at a place for three months, you're practically invincible.
Without three written warnings for the same basic type of offense, dismissal is very shaky ground, and as I said in another post approx. 75% of unfair dismissal cases find in favour of the employee.
Usual tactic is to bully the fuck out of the employee, make their job a misery, after explaining - in such a way you can easily deny - that it's not going to get better until they hand in their notice.
I've seen my old boss put two people through that, it was horrible.
Not long after the National Party took over they introduced the 'Fire at will' bill allowing employers a 90-day period to discharge an employee without notice or reason.
Hasn't changed the fact that all of the employers I've had have been too shit scared to do anything about even the most useless of staff - even when it's clear a $20,000 settlement will still probably be better than retaining the employee.
Approximately 75% of cases of unjustified dismissal are found against the employer.
I notice you couldn't figure out how many of your kilobytes would be taken up by one second of audio at 44.1kHz with one octet per sample.
How do I know whether 1MB is 2^20 or 10^6? Simple - it's 10^6, just like a megahertz, megavolt, or mega-anything. If I was supposed to think 2^20, the MiB unit would have been used.
I'm also saying that expressing storage capacities in power of 10 doesn't make any sense, because at no point are they a "round number" in base 10.
And all your hard drives are round numbers in base-2, huh? You're saying that in 50 years it hasn't been a problem? Yet when posed with a simple question - how many kiB is 44100 bytes - you don't even attempt it, it's another one of those awkward 'problems' you've been used to ignoring for the last 50 years.
So don't. If you're talking about the file to someone, you can say it's "about 120 megabytes" - converting the size of some arbitrary file to MiB is about as interesting as me giving telling my Doctor my weight in terms of electrons simply because she's a scientist.
If you need to think that everything even vaguely related to computing needs to be done in powers of two, you're doing something wrong.
Tell me, assuming one "sample" equals one byte, how many bytes on disk (ignoring overhead) would a second of mono audio use, if sampled at 44.1kHz? The caculation is quite easy unless you've perverted the entire SI system just to suit one very specific case where it's not quite so convenient (RAM manufacture)
Not my point. What I'm saying is: If you're one of the few people that's got what it takes to solo-pilot a helicopter, chances are you've got what it takes to handles cellphones + cars. Point being, some people are better at some things than others, I'd wager that most pilots are excellent drivers due to their discipline at handling someone much more demanding - I never intended to start some analogy between General Aircraft and Road Traffic.
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If you really believe that to be true, "These guys" must look like fucking geniuses to you.
Well, we can see you'll never be a television reporter, what, with all that objectivity and bringing facts into the whole thing.
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Not to mention the 'extreme skill used in smashing the plate-glass window' (paraphrased, not willing to watch the sensationalist bulletin again just to quote verbatim)
About Orders of Magnitude:
Do you want one kick in the balls, or eight? The two numbers are within an order, so it's all academic, right?
Please, it's called Truth Management
Because that's a big contributor to the amount of malware running on Windows machines.
My Dad and Granddad -long time Jag aficionados - reckon Jaguar turned to shit a long time before then - when British Leyland took over.
I won't repeat myself - you'll find where I 'pulled that figure' in my response to your other (practically identical) post.
I have lived in NZ my entire life and I can attest this statement is the most correct, concise description of our country.
My son broke his arm on Sunday. First thing I did was get online to see if there were any reasonably priced flights to countries with real hospitals full of real doctors.
So she didn't get on with her co-workers all that well - so what? In my experience the black sheep are often the best workers - especially if their position might cause other staff to 'butter up' the person for some kind of favour (exemption from email/web blocking policy, for example).
Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
Without three written warnings for the same basic type of offense, dismissal is very shaky ground, and as I said in another post approx. 75% of unfair dismissal cases find in favour of the employee.
Usual tactic is to bully the fuck out of the employee, make their job a misery, after explaining - in such a way you can easily deny - that it's not going to get better until they hand in their notice.
I've seen my old boss put two people through that, it was horrible.
Hasn't changed the fact that all of the employers I've had have been too shit scared to do anything about even the most useless of staff - even when it's clear a $20,000 settlement will still probably be better than retaining the employee.
Approximately 75% of cases of unjustified dismissal are found against the employer.
How do I know whether 1MB is 2^20 or 10^6? Simple - it's 10^6, just like a megahertz, megavolt, or mega-anything. If I was supposed to think 2^20, the MiB unit would have been used.
And all your hard drives are round numbers in base-2, huh? You're saying that in 50 years it hasn't been a problem? Yet when posed with a simple question - how many kiB is 44100 bytes - you don't even attempt it, it's another one of those awkward 'problems' you've been used to ignoring for the last 50 years.
y'know, I think I misunderstood where you were coming from, sorry. Ignore me.
FTFY
So don't. If you're talking about the file to someone, you can say it's "about 120 megabytes" - converting the size of some arbitrary file to MiB is about as interesting as me giving telling my Doctor my weight in terms of electrons simply because she's a scientist.
I think you meant to say: "Your logic and reasoning be damned, there's a perfectly good conspiracy theory to cling to here"
Tell me, assuming one "sample" equals one byte, how many bytes on disk (ignoring overhead) would a second of mono audio use, if sampled at 44.1kHz? The caculation is quite easy unless you've perverted the entire SI system just to suit one very specific case where it's not quite so convenient (RAM manufacture)
Not any more, the battery is not user replaceable in the current generation of MacBook Pros
What's even funnier still is that there's an app for that.
Pardon me for not drawing that conclusion from your post I quoted (entirely) earlier.
Not my point. What I'm saying is: If you're one of the few people that's got what it takes to solo-pilot a helicopter, chances are you've got what it takes to handles cellphones + cars. Point being, some people are better at some things than others, I'd wager that most pilots are excellent drivers due to their discipline at handling someone much more demanding - I never intended to start some analogy between General Aircraft and Road Traffic.