'To cite just one example, a recent survey of pension policyholders in the United Kingdom found that 75 percent would leave their current provider if they experienced bad customer service.'
So they say, speaking hypothetically. What would be interesting is how many of those surveyed received bad service and, of those, how many actually did switch. I wonder why these questions were not part of the survey; they are no more costly to ask.
For a toddler, I would go with building blocks, pots and pans with wooden spoons, books, games (some of which for you play with them), and cardboard boxes. Give them the tech when its lack is holding them back.
'One naked guy goes protest his rights, he's a nutcase. Thirty naked people protest their rights, it's a political group. One million naked protesters keep it going for ninety days, it's a movement.'
'My mother cannot go to the bookstore and pick up a book that will make her understand the strange language that we IT people speak,....'
At this point in the developement of consumer computers, she shouldn't need to understand IT speak anymore than she need understand Maxwell's equations to use a television. A book about the size and in the format (i.e. tasks and trouble-shooting) for that TV should be sufficient. Obviously, programming and advanced configuration would require more.
'Technically RADAR stands for RAdio Direction And Ranging and should be in all caps, but it's so commonly used nowadays that maybe it's considered a normal word.'
Well, that's one of the two characteristics that makes it an acronym (the other is that it is composed of initial letters taken from the words of the phrase).
Well, given a 200 metre expansion per year, that would be sufficient to circumnavigate the globe. So four to eight kilometres per generation should easily accomplish Georgia to mid-Africa.
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So I guess that "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" and "No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft" are now different ;^)
It's an hotel or boarding house.
So they say, speaking hypothetically. What would be interesting is how many of those surveyed received bad service and, of those, how many actually did switch. I wonder why these questions were not part of the survey; they are no more costly to ask.
Will the OSSCom bubble be the follow-on to the DotCom bubble?
Vista doesn't suck; it blows.
I guess in the same way that the line has blurred between your typical house builder and the engineers who construct 30 storey buildings.
For a toddler, I would go with building blocks, pots and pans with wooden spoons, books, games (some of which for you play with them), and cardboard boxes.
Give them the tech when its lack is holding them back.
or "trade" that information for the salary range the interviewer is authorised to offer ;^)
So, his father may 'only' be 89 ;^) (if he bought the truck at 15).
Hey, mine was worse!
You've been listening to "Alice's Restaurant" agaon, haven't you?
FreeBSD ported ! ;^)
Continuous Gravitation, rat on!
At this point in the developement of consumer computers, she shouldn't need to understand IT speak anymore than she need understand Maxwell's equations to use a television. A book about the size and in the format (i.e. tasks and trouble-shooting) for that TV should be sufficient. Obviously, programming and advanced configuration would require more.
Available here.
Er, that is what I wrote (in reference to it being a normal word).
Well, that's one of the two characteristics that makes it an acronym (the other is that it is composed of initial letters taken from the words of the phrase).
Especially if fired from the chicken cannon!
Can't see the galaxy for the stars, eh?
Oh my, you mean we don't know everything yet!
How would you get the gun through the lobby to your room?
It was actually bestiality since he wanted to make it with the Enterprise crew.
Also Rik Mayall as Flash in the Blackadder series.
LCD (lowest common denominator) wine.
Well, given a 200 metre expansion per year, that would be sufficient to circumnavigate the globe. So four to eight kilometres per generation should easily accomplish Georgia to mid-Africa.