Careful, you don't want to invoke the small number Gods on here. It can get ugly. I know, as I have hidden behind my keyboard and watched as 4 digit and under users have emerged from the depths and cast judgement on us lesser souls.
"Bank to bank transfers are also widely available and free of charge."
While I completely agree with moving away from cheques to electronic payment, bank transfers are not free to all UK account holders - particularly some business accounts - this is why an IT support company I sometimes do work for pays me by cheque, as the fee to transfer by BACS from his account makes it less cost effective.
If looks like item descriptions now load in an iframe from ebaydesc.com, so this may break in browsers with any blocking of iframes or content from external domains. However, as I haven't used eBay in a while, I can't be sure if this is new or something they've done for a while in the old design too...
Nope, 1pt, 2pts, 4pts (and sometimes 6pts) in full fat, semi-skimmed and skimmed (but in more than one brand, thus filling an aisle). However all of them have the pint and litre figures printed in the side or front. but in the same section there is the cream in 300 or 500ml pots (and various other fresh dairy or related liquids such as goats milk).
UHT milk is usually in a different aisle and are in 1 litre cartons.
So we are still rather confused in the UK (and I still have to try to remember the F to C conversion ratio when people of my parent's generation are talking about temperatures).
1 U.S. fluid ounce = 1.041 British fluid ounces
1 British fluid ounce = 0.961 U.S. fluid ounce
1 U.S. gallon = 0.833 British Imperial gallon
1 British Imperial gallon = 1.201 U.S. gallons
So the problem is that your (US) pint isn't my (UK) pint (and worse with gallons) - this is why SI units make more sense - and I wish we were using them more in the UK than we do currently on a day to day basis...
The odd thing is, I don't need magnets to navigate back to a point I started at. I couldn't easily tell you which way is north, but I can usually point in the direction of my car/hotel/etc from anywhere in the city provided I walked there (without any deliberate attempt to memorise landmarks or turns).
I was once 'lost' in Munich - lost in the sense of being able to point in exactly the direction of my car, just not being able to find streets that would take me that way. I came back via a completely different route, apart from the last 200 metres or so, but still knew exactly which way I needed to be heading...
I used to get a slight headache and involuntarily shudder whenever we drove under high voltage power lines as a kid. It doesn't seem to happen now I'm grown up, but I still seem to have some sensitivity to magnetic fields - I worked for a company that sold "magnetic health products" and had to insist that I really didn't want any of their stuff near me because it would give me a headache... Of course, some of that could be psychological, I've not experimented to see if I could tell the difference.
Also, with older mobile (cell) phones I used to be able to tell when they were broadcasting (most likely polling the base station as it wasn't making/receiving a call) by a kind of slightly painful sensation in my hand if I was holding it. I only get that now with modern mobiles if my hands are wet.
Not that I'm suggesting that several thousand geeks all pay it a visit at once and "stress test" their webserver... Not at all, this is Slashdot after all...:-)
I mean, if there was a student called Simon James Richard Clarke who used his initials for his private email address, what case would the school have against him?
I just see "Your ad here" which will appear when JavaScript is disabled, either via NoScript or just generally.
One quick rule and those boxes are gone too (the "Element Hider Help" add-in is Adblock's friend...).
I'm not even American, and I know little of the details of the US Constitution, Declaration of Independence, US case law, and political systems, yet I got 20 correct out of the 33 (about 60%), so I'm astounded to read that US citizens on average did worse.
One thing I noticed on the results page though was "Average score for this quiz during November: 77.4%".
So, while I don't know what the average for US citizens in the figures for this month (and all time) was, it suggests that results reported in the story were most likely not a representative sample...
Slashdot Mirror
Careful, you don't want to invoke the small number Gods on here. It can get ugly. I know, as I have hidden behind my keyboard and watched as 4 digit and under users have emerged from the depths and cast judgement on us lesser souls.
You rang? :-p
Or "Oman Data Park LLC" where at least a couple of these domains were registered through (from a quick check) was compromised?
Hello from a 4. ;-)
"Bank to bank transfers are also widely available and free of charge." While I completely agree with moving away from cheques to electronic payment, bank transfers are not free to all UK account holders - particularly some business accounts - this is why an IT support company I sometimes do work for pays me by cheque, as the fee to transfer by BACS from his account makes it less cost effective.
They are trying to encourage you to pay online - I did that this year when I renewed my car's tax disk.
If looks like item descriptions now load in an iframe from ebaydesc.com, so this may break in browsers with any blocking of iframes or content from external domains. However, as I haven't used eBay in a while, I can't be sure if this is new or something they've done for a while in the old design too...
Or 1 gal = 160 fl. oz. in UK measures ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_weights_and_measures#British_.28Imperial.29_measures ). Thus part of the issue of imperial measures.
Nope, 1pt, 2pts, 4pts (and sometimes 6pts) in full fat, semi-skimmed and skimmed (but in more than one brand, thus filling an aisle). However all of them have the pint and litre figures printed in the side or front. but in the same section there is the cream in 300 or 500ml pots (and various other fresh dairy or related liquids such as goats milk).
UHT milk is usually in a different aisle and are in 1 litre cartons.
So we are still rather confused in the UK (and I still have to try to remember the F to C conversion ratio when people of my parent's generation are talking about temperatures).
1 gallon = 4 qt.
1 quart = 2 pt.
1 pint = 2 c.
1 cup = 8 fl. oz.
In the UK they are different with the same names:
1 gallon = 4 quarts (8 pints/160 fl. oz.)
1 quart = 2 pints (40 fl. oz.)
1 pint = 2 cups (20 fl. oz.)
1 cup = 10 fl. oz.
See http://www.onlineconversion.com/article_UK_units.htm
and from http://www.metric-conversion-tables.com/imperialunitsmeasurement.htm
1 U.S. fluid ounce = 1.041 British fluid ounces
1 British fluid ounce = 0.961 U.S. fluid ounce
1 U.S. gallon = 0.833 British Imperial gallon
1 British Imperial gallon = 1.201 U.S. gallons
So the problem is that your (US) pint isn't my (UK) pint (and worse with gallons) - this is why SI units make more sense - and I wish we were using them more in the UK than we do currently on a day to day basis...
Where's my mod points when I need them? LOL...
Fascinating. It would be interesting to talk to a blind person and see if they experience anything like this...
Following Ley lines? :-p
The odd thing is, I don't need magnets to navigate back to a point I started at. I couldn't easily tell you which way is north, but I can usually point in the direction of my car/hotel/etc from anywhere in the city provided I walked there (without any deliberate attempt to memorise landmarks or turns).
I was once 'lost' in Munich - lost in the sense of being able to point in exactly the direction of my car, just not being able to find streets that would take me that way. I came back via a completely different route, apart from the last 200 metres or so, but still knew exactly which way I needed to be heading...
I used to get a slight headache and involuntarily shudder whenever we drove under high voltage power lines as a kid. It doesn't seem to happen now I'm grown up, but I still seem to have some sensitivity to magnetic fields - I worked for a company that sold "magnetic health products" and had to insist that I really didn't want any of their stuff near me because it would give me a headache... Of course, some of that could be psychological, I've not experimented to see if I could tell the difference.
Also, with older mobile (cell) phones I used to be able to tell when they were broadcasting (most likely polling the base station as it wasn't making/receiving a call) by a kind of slightly painful sensation in my hand if I was holding it. I only get that now with modern mobiles if my hands are wet.
Now witness the final battle between Captain Obvious and the Mighty Sarcasmo!
...And Commander Cliche checks in.
The three of us together can bring the world to its knees! (With laughter)...
(European companies will get a free pass, of course).
Like EDF, Groupement des Cartes Bancaires, or Telekomunikacja Polska and Slovak Telekom are then?
I can't see the appeal doing much except perhaps reducing the fine somewhat...
http://www.santarosa.edu/
:-)
Not that I'm suggesting that several thousand geeks all pay it a visit at once and "stress test" their webserver... Not at all, this is Slashdot after all...
...would they sue the parents?!? :-p
I mean, if there was a student called Simon James Richard Clarke who used his initials for his private email address, what case would the school have against him?
...well not the "doing something without telling the users" problem with NoScript, but unticking one box to stop AdBlock using the NoScript rules...
I just see "Your ad here" which will appear when JavaScript is disabled, either via NoScript or just generally. One quick rule and those boxes are gone too (the "Element Hider Help" add-in is Adblock's friend...).
~ a low user id is no indication I have a clue what I'm talking about.
LOL! I should steal^H^H^H^H^H^H borrow that sig. ;-)
I hope you didn't put that you are a Linux user in your Xbox Live profile, or Microsoft might do more than just close your account...
You're about 9 years too late for that. ;-)
http://centralops.net/co/DomainDossier.aspx?addr=getthefacts.co.uk&dom_whois=true
I'm not even American, and I know little of the details of the US Constitution, Declaration of Independence, US case law, and political systems, yet I got 20 correct out of the 33 (about 60%), so I'm astounded to read that US citizens on average did worse.
One thing I noticed on the results page though was "Average score for this quiz during November: 77.4%".
So, while I don't know what the average for US citizens in the figures for this month (and all time) was, it suggests that results reported in the story were most likely not a representative sample...