They are not mixing dollars and pence. They are (I think) saying the cost is 15 cents per MB and that in the UK that converts to about 10p per MB. A "/" is not always a division. Sometimes it is half a a web site name.
Given how long I have been hanging round slashdot it is amazing how long it took for me to work out what "Slashdot may have Microsoft" was actually meant to be....
It requires the user, or care-giver, to separate up to 10 sheets (20 pages) at a time into slots that will be individually turned. Subsequent batches of pages will then need to be processed similarly.
So still quite a bit of manual work separating blocks of 10 pages. Not sure it would save you very much time.
Do you think I can claim any credit for getting it modded up from zero (which was what it was at when I posted)? I guess we'll never know - it might have happened anyway.
Mod the great-grandparent up some more!
Ginormous is also in the Chambers dictionary. So perhaps it was poor choice for describing as not being in "most dictionaries". Unlike gullible which is not in any dictionary.
If it's the same gun shop you are walking past every day then this does not really tell us if they are common or not - might be the only one for 100 miles.
Also unless you know a large percentage of the population chosen at random then how many of your friends have guns does not tell us if gun ownership is common or not.
FWIW I don't know anyone who owns a gun nor do I pass a gun shop on the way to work.
Is it like America across the pond where many municipalities allow broadband providers a legal monopoly?
No, they don't have a monopoly. I use Virgin for my broadband but I could use BT or any number of other ISPs. If I don't like what they offer I can easily go elsewhere (although because of the distance from the exchange my cable broadband is way faster than anything coming down the BT line at present).
Yes indeed. The problem is not really IT related - most things are cheaper in the USA: books, clothes, gas (aka petrol), goodness knows what else. It's partly that the USA has a larger population than any individual European country, but probably a lot to do with relative disposable incomes.
1/3 is 33 1/3%. How is that severly off of the 36% estimate? because as well as trying the default password, they are suggesting trying a million common passwords, so that would mean the million passwords only gained 3% penetration, which hardly seems worth the bother.
I just hope they suggest a particular Linux distro and version to their schools, or they will end up with a dozen variants of Linux all needing different versions of downloaded apps, different config tools, and what not.
I will stop short at suggesting which distro they should choose (and might just avoid being modded troll).
No doubt the first folk to use this will be the bad guys. Planning or carrying a gun or a knife to protect yourself? Well, in a year's time it will be a waste of time, cos that mugger will just laugh in your face. And steal the gun after you've wasted your bullets.
China is enormous, and the border areas are probably not worth targetting as they are probably full of military personnel and party activists. I'd guess.
I'd also hazarad a guess that much of the IT technology available to joe public is not (yet) wireless enabled. And how hard would it be for a suprssive government to just interfere with the signals anyway? So I think this is a non-starter and would just cause trouble betewen China and its nearest neighbours.
In fact it's even worse than that - it would be like buying a tv with the adverts pre installed - why would anyone sign up for other adverts to see the same programs? My point being, the browser is just a tool to get at the content, and if changing browsers does not change the content, most folk will put up with whatever browser happens to be there.
So yes, MS had a great advantage, and I think it is only with the advent of increased access to broadband that folk find downloading painless enough that they will try other browsers.
I'm sure I read somewhere that the military are supposed to just melt old storage devices to be sure of getting rid of the data, but now I can't find that report anywhere. Theory and practice often differ I guess.
And it could just as easily work the other way - raise a ticket about me and you'll find I can be an even worse boss.
Unless they are really amazingly effective in picking out real grievances from the spurious and able to actually fix the real problems they'll just be opening a whole can of worms. Given that finding good managers is so difficult they may just have a system which sounds good on paper and will never work. Still, at least they will be able to document the system failing;-)
Sadly I'm finding that these days for some queries the first page of results is stuffed with junk web sites trying to sell me something totally unrelated to what I am searching for. Are there more companies manipulating the search engines, or are they (the companies trying to sell me something, not the search engines) just better at manipulating the results?
I guess we just have to live for a while with the fact that since there is money to be made from being high up the search engine rankings many slightly unscrupulous folk will use it to take money off folk and make it harder to find genuinely useful information
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They are not mixing dollars and pence. They are (I think) saying the cost is 15 cents per MB and that in the UK that converts to about 10p per MB. A "/" is not always a division. Sometimes it is half a a web site name.
Given how long I have been hanging round slashdot it is amazing how long it took for me to work out what "Slashdot may have Microsoft" was actually meant to be....
The Vim documentation tells us "Vim is pronounced as one word, like Jim, not vi-ai-em." So I guess it sounds like Jim. http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/intro.html
So still quite a bit of manual work separating blocks of 10 pages. Not sure it would save you very much time.
I think there should be a new /. poll: "What genre of music do you listen to when coding?"
And it would be interesting to compare with the results a few years ago:
http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1359&aid=-1
Would CowboyNeal's All-Jug Band still rate as highly?
Do you think I can claim any credit for getting it modded up from zero (which was what it was at when I posted)? I guess we'll never know - it might have happened anyway.
Mod the great-grandparent up some more!
I sure do hope there's some irony in your post I'm not caching.
Irony typically has a short TTL; you're better off not caching it.
Mod the parent up!
If I had mod points I'd mod you up - can't believe folk have modded this down. Perhaps they didn't see the typo introducing the idea if caching irony.
Ginormous is also in the Chambers dictionary. So perhaps it was poor choice for describing as not being in "most dictionaries". Unlike gullible which is not in any dictionary.
If it's the same gun shop you are walking past every day then this does not really tell us if they are common or not - might be the only one for 100 miles.
Also unless you know a large percentage of the population chosen at random then how many of your friends have guns does not tell us if gun ownership is common or not.
FWIW I don't know anyone who owns a gun nor do I pass a gun shop on the way to work.
Is it like America across the pond where many municipalities allow broadband providers a legal monopoly?
No, they don't have a monopoly. I use Virgin for my broadband but I could use BT or any number of other ISPs. If I don't like what they offer I can easily go elsewhere (although because of the distance from the exchange my cable broadband is way faster than anything coming down the BT line at present).
Yes indeed. The problem is not really IT related - most things are cheaper in the USA: books, clothes, gas (aka petrol), goodness knows what else. It's partly that the USA has a larger population than any individual European country, but probably a lot to do with relative disposable incomes.
Oh, and IANAE (I Am Not An Economist).
Made me think of this futuristic device I read about middle of last (!) year with a computer no larger than a pen: http://tech-nex.blogspot.com/2007/07/glance-intothe-future-computer.html A small laser projector is a step towards the future :-)
Are you sure about that?
d =Mozilla-search&va=Biannual+
which says biannual means "occurring twice a year"
compare with biennial
http://www.webster.com/dictionary/biennial+
"occurring every two years"
See for instance http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourcei
I just hope they suggest a particular Linux distro and version to their schools, or they will end up with a dozen variants of Linux all needing different versions of downloaded apps, different config tools, and what not.
I will stop short at suggesting which distro they should choose (and might just avoid being modded troll).
No doubt the first folk to use this will be the bad guys. Planning or carrying a gun or a knife to protect yourself? Well, in a year's time it will be a waste of time, cos that mugger will just laugh in your face. And steal the gun after you've wasted your bullets.
Maybe I should stop being a cynic.
China is enormous, and the border areas are probably not worth targetting as they are probably full of military personnel and party activists. I'd guess.
I'd also hazarad a guess that much of the IT technology available to joe public is not (yet) wireless enabled. And how hard would it be for a suprssive government to just interfere with the signals anyway? So I think this is a non-starter and would just cause trouble betewen China and its nearest neighbours.
In fact it's even worse than that - it would be like buying a tv with the adverts pre installed - why would anyone sign up for other adverts to see the same programs? My point being, the browser is just a tool to get at the content, and if changing browsers does not change the content, most folk will put up with whatever browser happens to be there.
So yes, MS had a great advantage, and I think it is only with the advent of increased access to broadband that folk find downloading painless enough that they will try other browsers.
I'd say they have simply picked a title likely to appeal to early adopters of new technology.
The BBC news site reported this a couple of days ago:
5 2.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/49050
I'm sure I read somewhere that the military are supposed to just melt old storage devices to be sure of getting rid of the data, but now I can't find that report anywhere. Theory and practice often differ I guess.
And it could just as easily work the other way - raise a ticket about me and you'll find I can be an even worse boss.
;-)
Unless they are really amazingly effective in picking out real grievances from the spurious and able to actually fix the real problems they'll just be opening a whole can of worms. Given that finding good managers is so difficult they may just have a system which sounds good on paper and will never work. Still, at least they will be able to document the system failing
Sadly I'm finding that these days for some queries the first page of results is stuffed with junk web sites trying to sell me something totally unrelated to what I am searching for. Are there more companies manipulating the search engines, or are they (the companies trying to sell me something, not the search engines) just better at manipulating the results?
I guess we just have to live for a while with the fact that since there is money to be made from being high up the search engine rankings many slightly unscrupulous folk will use it to take money off folk and make it harder to find genuinely useful information