Rich People own Diageo. Not just Yanks, not just Brits, maybe even some Micks. -- Law of truly large numbers - almost all numbers are harder to remember than you can imagine.
As I sat here clattering away on my Model M (on the top of my desk, between my trackball and my Thinkpad), I wondered:
(1) Has anyone tried putting a trackpoint on a smartphone? It would keep the screen cleaner and keep your fingers out of the line of sight.
(2) Has anyone added a touchpad or a mini-graphics tablet to a desktop PC so desktop users could experience a touchscreen-style interface? If the interface is so great, it should be a seller. MS might even bundle it with Win8^H9.
(2a) Most laptops have a touchpad. How does that experience compare to the touchscreen interface? Are laptop users less dismayed by Metro?
(3) The real future of computer input interfaces probably involves directly tracking your eyeballs. Any bets that Google is not working on this? -- Law of truly large numbers - almost all numbers are larger than you can imagine.
Right-click Taskbar, select Properties Select "Start Menu" tab Select "Classic Start menu" and click Customize scroll down and check "Scroll Programs" click OK click OK
Now when you click Start and Programs, you get one scrolling list. Right click the list and select "SORT by Name" now you have an explorer-style sorted list of folders then shortcuts.
It's almost as good as Win3.1 -- You may vacate my lawn at your convenience. Right NOW.
A quick scan of the bookshelf brings these authors to mind:
Jorge Luis Borges Rosel George Brown James Branch Cabell L Sprague de Camp G C Edmondson R A Lafferty Keith Laumer Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner) Eric Frank Russell Theodore Sturgeon William Tenn (Philip Klass) James Tiptree Jr (Alice Bradley Sheldon). -- 90 percent of this list is NOT crud.
The goal of a resume is to get a foot in the door.
or
The purpose of a resume is to get an interview. The purpose of an interview is to get a job offer. The purpose of a job offer is to get a raise. -- Law of truly large numbers - almost all numbers are larger than you can imagine.
You could email your account name, password and file hash to your downloaders.
That guy Anon (password:arrr) will be restoring his online backups a lot more often. And from a lot of ip addresses. And all his works are in the pubic domain.
The real blow is financial - no more payments to the uploaders. -- I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
Farmers! Prepare now for the re-greening of sunny Greenland, land of the future! -- Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.
It is _always_ pilot error. He should have prayed faster and harder. And reviewed his anoxia mantra.
An unconscious test pilot should be asleep in bed. Otherwise you are testing the wrong thing. -- I could fly in my dreams, but the passengers wouldn't like it.
... when men were men and chemists were the most manly of them and trucking companies were wimps.
The voiceover said the government had to waste the Na in a lake because no shipping company dared haul it to waiting buyers....followed by an advert for OSHAness.
So spin up that hot liquid NA. Get all MHDal. What could possibily go wrong? Please be ready to record the first explosion. -- Where is the fun in not blowing stuff up?
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Who owns Diageo?
from http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MFRsy_KE9_8J:stockzoa.com/ticker/deo/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=opera
Who holds a large position in Diageo:
Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss owns 10.58M shares worth $924.96M
Wentworth, Hauser & Violich owns 3.69M shares worth $322.48M
Schafer Cullen Capital Management owns 1.70M shares worth $148.84M
Bank of America Corporation owns 1.31M shares worth $114.57M
Markel Corporation owns 1.25M shares worth $109.02M
Johnston Asset Management owns 1.24M shares worth $93.81M
INTERNATIONAL VALUE ADVISERS owns 1.23M shares worth $107.39M
Franklin Resources owns 996175 shares worth $87.09M
Osterweis Capital Management owns 963445 shares worth $73.15M
Gabelli Funds owns 922000 shares worth $80.60M
Manulife Asset Management owns 807079 shares worth $70.55M
Citi owns 780475 shares worth $68.24M
Epoch Investment Partners owns 776104 shares worth $67.85M
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans owns 755348 shares worth $66.03M
Focused Investors owns 726200 shares worth $63.48M
GAMCO Asset Management owns 707570 shares worth $61.86M
Cooke & Bieler owns 704516 shares worth $61.59M
Allianz Global Investors of America owns 676595 shares worth $59.15M
GOLDMAN SACHS owns 606318 shares worth $53.00M
Rich People own Diageo. Not just Yanks, not just Brits, maybe even some Micks.
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Law of truly large numbers - almost all numbers are harder to remember than you can imagine.
It's the Year of Android on the Desktop.
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If work was so good, the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
...wearing a suit is horrendously uncomfortable...
Maybe you ought to invest in a better suit.
And there are excellent light weight woolen fabrics.
I bought a black pinstripe about ten years ago for about £100.
Good for business. Good for funerals. Good enough for my funeral.
The exit to my lawn is over there. Now. Right now.
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I tried a Vegan diet, but the first one I tried tasted horrible and screamed a lot.
As I sat here clattering away on my Model M (on the top of my desk, between my trackball and my Thinkpad), I wondered:
(1) Has anyone tried putting a trackpoint on a smartphone? It would keep the screen cleaner and keep your fingers out of the line of sight.
(2) Has anyone added a touchpad or a mini-graphics tablet to a desktop PC so desktop users could experience a touchscreen-style interface? If the interface is so great, it should be a seller. MS might even bundle it with Win8^H9.
(2a) Most laptops have a touchpad. How does that experience compare to the touchscreen interface? Are laptop users less dismayed by Metro?
(3) The real future of computer input interfaces probably involves directly tracking your eyeballs. Any bets that Google is not working on this?
--
Law of truly large numbers - almost all numbers are larger than you can imagine.
I still use XP, and W2k on one old laptop.
Right-click Taskbar, select Properties
Select "Start Menu" tab
Select "Classic Start menu" and click Customize
scroll down and check "Scroll Programs"
click OK
click OK
Now when you click Start and Programs, you get one scrolling list.
Right click the list and select "SORT by Name"
now you have an explorer-style sorted list of folders then shortcuts.
It's almost as good as Win3.1
--
You may vacate my lawn at your convenience. Right NOW.
A quick scan of the bookshelf brings these authors to mind:
Jorge Luis Borges
Rosel George Brown
James Branch Cabell
L Sprague de Camp
G C Edmondson
R A Lafferty
Keith Laumer
Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner)
Eric Frank Russell
Theodore Sturgeon
William Tenn (Philip Klass)
James Tiptree Jr (Alice Bradley Sheldon).
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90 percent of this list is NOT crud.
So we have FTL sorted, except for a few little details -
We don't know how to start it
We don't know how to stop it
We don't know how to steer it
and
We don't know how to build it.
We're almost there.
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On large numbers - almost all numbers are larger than you can imagine.
Ever wonder why atomic weights vary from place to place?
Isotope ratios vary from place to place.
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Law of truly large numbers - almost all numbers are larger than you can imagine.
The goal of a resume is to get a foot in the door.
or
The purpose of a resume is to get an interview.
The purpose of an interview is to get a job offer.
The purpose of a job offer is to get a raise.
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Law of truly large numbers - almost all numbers are larger than you can imagine.
It's history. They have moved. Why not rename?
Take a tip from Google and call it BETAques.
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On the Internet, everyone's an expert. Right?
Which came first, the Z or the W?
As in "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
The egg came first, but it wasn't laid by a chicken.
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Of course I can't see anything! I'm standing on the shoulders of idiots
...simply by putting in efficient security at airports.
Like handing out a free box cutter to each adult airline passenger?
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National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity.
You could email your account name, password and file hash to your downloaders.
That guy Anon (password:arrr) will be restoring his online backups a lot more often. And from a lot of ip addresses. And all his works are in the pubic domain.
The real blow is financial - no more payments to the uploaders.
--
I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
Has WHOOSH been deprecated?
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I hope this comment creates a much-needed gap in the discussion.
Farmers! Prepare now for the re-greening of sunny Greenland, land of the future!
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Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.
You can swim in water. You can't swim in ice.
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When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat? -C. Palahniuk
It's paid for. Old machine, old drivers, old software. Old user. Sucks to be MS.
Now get off my lawn.
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Bug fixes never introduce bugs. Code just keeps getting better. Oh, yes.
Verblessing weirdlier enlanguages moreish.
What is the ground state of caring?
This seems to describe a use of gravity assist/slingshot to change orbital plane. Just the thing to get out of the dust disk. Most of the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist#The_Ulysses_probe_changed_the_plane_of_its_trajectory
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Whenever you want information on the net, don't ask a question. Just post a wrong answer.
It is _always_ pilot error. He should have prayed faster and harder.
And reviewed his anoxia mantra.
An unconscious test pilot should be asleep in bed.
Otherwise you are testing the wrong thing.
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I could fly in my dreams, but the passengers wouldn't like it.
Consistency would be a fine thing, too.
... when men were men and chemists were the most manly of them
and
trucking companies were wimps.
The voiceover said the government had to waste the Na in a lake because no shipping company dared haul it to waiting buyers. ...followed by an advert for OSHAness.
So spin up that hot liquid NA. Get all MHDal.
What could possibily go wrong?
Please be ready to record the first explosion.
--
Where is the fun in not blowing stuff up?
Q: How do I avoid this new, soon-to-be-corrupt, part of /.
A: add "127.0.0.1 ask.slashdot.org" to your hosts file
Q: Thanks, /. expert
A: Q?
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Nothing endures; nothing is complete; nothing is perfect.
And just what is the radio signature for unobtanium?
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I hope this comment creates a much-needed gap in the discussion.