The first generation iPhone was not at all popular. Most people waited for the second release before getting one, and that is generally a good strategy with new products.
A billion is 10^9 in Britain, just the same as in the US. The frogs across the channel have a similar sounding word that means 10^12, and "Milliard" for 10^9. But as they have different words for everything else, why should they stop at numbers?
Would it be possible to assign space in the IPv6 block for all the existing IPv4 addresses and then require ISPs to do some trickery to re-route the requests?
They buy a computer that is described as having a Core i7, and would like to know whether or not that allows them to run XP Mode in Windows 7. They don't care which type of socket the motherboard comes with.
The World Trade Centre in New York was targeted twice, and didn't survive the second attempt.
One Canada Square in London has been targeted by the IRA.
It isn't the height per se that makes them a target, but the fact that they are landmark buildings, however they are landmark buildings because of their height.
Abu Dhabi has lots of money, and lots of oil, yes, and has followed traditional prudent Islamic financial practices.
Dubai has very little oil, and lots of debt, and has not followed traditional prudent Islamic financial practices, instead preferring to be more "westernised".
When Dubai World Ports (nothing to do with Abu Dhabi) took over Peninsular and Oriental from the British, the Americans forced them to sell the US ports division as a condition of allowing the sale to go through.
It has no problem with 29th February 2009 in Excel 2003. The problem is that it thinks that 29th February 1900 is a valid date. That might be what you are thinking of.
Date variables are stored as IEEE 64-bit (8-byte) floating-point numbers that represent dates ranging from 1 January 100 to 31 December 9999 and times from 0:00:00 to 23:59:59. Any recognizable literal date values can be assigned to Date variables. Date literals must be enclosed within number signs (#), for example, #January 1, 1993# or #1 Jan 93#.
Date variables display dates according to the short date format recognized by your computer. Times display according to the time format (either 12-hour or 24-hour) recognized by your computer.
When other numeric types are converted to Date, values to the left of the decimal represent date information while values to the right of the decimal represent time. Midnight is 0 and midday is 0.5. Negative whole numbers represent dates before 30 December 1899.
Excel stores its date/time as floats. The fractional component is for time of day, and the whole number is for the number of days since the relevant epoch, either 1st January 1900 or 4th January 1904 depending on the platform used.
Expect to pay about £10 to £15 per month for an internet plan for it, or about £2 per day for a pay as you go plan if you don't want to use the internet every day.
You can also get it "free" on a phone contract. Then you can expect to pay about £40 per month for a two year contract - so probably better off paying for it.
Indeed. I thought sites like virustotal existed to enable people to test their warez against different virus scanners to get a second opinion as to whether or not they were infected, or safe to install on their machine.
This is all very well, but there were people who thought their microwave oven or washing machine would fail on 1/1/00 because it couldn't understand the date.
How often is the clock on the microwave set correctly anyway, and what difference does it make to its ability to cook things? And why on earth should a washing machine care whether it is 1/1/2000 or 1/1/1900? It isn't as if it is programmed to realise that it hasn't been invented yet and should therefore stop working.
In any case, looking at my microwave clock, which is set reasonably accurately, it is a bit less than a minute out, I don't think it even knows whether it is 4:39pm or 4:39am, never mind which century it is.
The thing is that placebos really do work. It isn't just an imaginary thing. A placebo may not heal a broken arm in three seconds, but it will certainly help to heal it quicker.
The difference is the fact that "inventing" new software doesn't require the same level of expenditure in R&D as inventing a new hardware process, so doesn't need the monopoly protection that patents provide.
I think this means the fastest regular timetabled train service rather than the fastest a train has ever travelled, because quite a few trains have broken the 400 km/h barrier in test runs.
Canada is the second largest country in the world in km^2 terms after Russia, but way down the list for population. Most people live in the South East and South West corners of the country. I guess it isn't really surprising that outside those areas you need a satellite phone for coverage.
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The first generation iPhone was not at all popular. Most people waited for the second release before getting one, and that is generally a good strategy with new products.
A billion is 10^9 in Britain, just the same as in the US. The frogs across the channel have a similar sounding word that means 10^12, and "Milliard" for 10^9. But as they have different words for everything else, why should they stop at numbers?
He could surprise me by having more than one button on it. Maybe it is going to have a keyboard?
The first generation iPhone didn't sell well because it only supported EDGE rather than UMTS and HSDPA.
Would it be possible to assign space in the IPv6 block for all the existing IPv4 addresses and then require ISPs to do some trickery to re-route the requests?
They might be watching a video while touching up their photos in Photoshop. That's probably the most likely heavy use scenario.
They buy a computer that is described as having a Core i7, and would like to know whether or not that allows them to run XP Mode in Windows 7. They don't care which type of socket the motherboard comes with.
It isn't free. There will be a line in the service charge account for elevator maintenance.
The World Trade Centre in New York was targeted twice, and didn't survive the second attempt.
One Canada Square in London has been targeted by the IRA.
It isn't the height per se that makes them a target, but the fact that they are landmark buildings, however they are landmark buildings because of their height.
Abu Dhabi has lots of money, and lots of oil, yes, and has followed traditional prudent Islamic financial practices.
Dubai has very little oil, and lots of debt, and has not followed traditional prudent Islamic financial practices, instead preferring to be more "westernised".
When Dubai World Ports (nothing to do with Abu Dhabi) took over Peninsular and Oriental from the British, the Americans forced them to sell the US ports division as a condition of allowing the sale to go through.
A lot of cell phones can do video calls. The thing is that people generally don't want to do video calls.
It has no problem with 29th February 2009 in Excel 2003. The problem is that it thinks that 29th February 1900 is a valid date. That might be what you are thinking of.
Surgical procedures are not patentable in Europe. Medicines potentially are, as is any equipment used in the procedure.
Yes. I read the fine manual, which says:
Date Data Type
Date variables are stored as IEEE 64-bit (8-byte) floating-point numbers that represent dates ranging from 1 January 100 to 31 December 9999 and times from 0:00:00 to 23:59:59. Any recognizable literal date values can be assigned to Date variables. Date literals must be enclosed within number signs (#), for example, #January 1, 1993# or #1 Jan 93#.
Date variables display dates according to the short date format recognized by your computer. Times display according to the time format (either 12-hour or 24-hour) recognized by your computer.
When other numeric types are converted to Date, values to the left of the decimal represent date information while values to the right of the decimal represent time. Midnight is 0 and midday is 0.5. Negative whole numbers represent dates before 30 December 1899.
Excel stores its date/time as floats. The fractional component is for time of day, and the whole number is for the number of days since the relevant epoch, either 1st January 1900 or 4th January 1904 depending on the platform used.
And it isn't that long ago in historical terms since the British Empire as a superpower fell apart.
I've seen lots of them around the South of England, around Manchester and in Cardiff, so I would imagine they are all over the UK.
There is no need to wait. I installed Windows 7 bootcamp on the day it was released on Technet, and it worked fine with the Vista drivers.
Such a thing already exists.
http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/mini-laptops
Toshiba has one as well.
Expect to pay about £10 to £15 per month for an internet plan for it, or about £2 per day for a pay as you go plan if you don't want to use the internet every day.
You can also get it "free" on a phone contract. Then you can expect to pay about £40 per month for a two year contract - so probably better off paying for it.
Indeed. I thought sites like virustotal existed to enable people to test their warez against different virus scanners to get a second opinion as to whether or not they were infected, or safe to install on their machine.
This is all very well, but there were people who thought their microwave oven or washing machine would fail on 1/1/00 because it couldn't understand the date.
How often is the clock on the microwave set correctly anyway, and what difference does it make to its ability to cook things? And why on earth should a washing machine care whether it is 1/1/2000 or 1/1/1900? It isn't as if it is programmed to realise that it hasn't been invented yet and should therefore stop working.
In any case, looking at my microwave clock, which is set reasonably accurately, it is a bit less than a minute out, I don't think it even knows whether it is 4:39pm or 4:39am, never mind which century it is.
The thing is that placebos really do work. It isn't just an imaginary thing. A placebo may not heal a broken arm in three seconds, but it will certainly help to heal it quicker.
The difference is the fact that "inventing" new software doesn't require the same level of expenditure in R&D as inventing a new hardware process, so doesn't need the monopoly protection that patents provide.
I was about to accuse you of being a NASA employee, but it appears you are right.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/03/fastest_train_attempt/
I think this means the fastest regular timetabled train service rather than the fastest a train has ever travelled, because quite a few trains have broken the 400 km/h barrier in test runs.
Canada is the second largest country in the world in km^2 terms after Russia, but way down the list for population. Most people live in the South East and South West corners of the country. I guess it isn't really surprising that outside those areas you need a satellite phone for coverage.