Asking for figures to be given with units which actually make sense indicates competence, not arrogance. The arrogance, if any, is the submitter assuming that everyone uses the same software as them (boosting by "at least 2 to 4 bars" indicates that it can boost by more, which would be quite impressive with software where 4 bars is as high as it goes), but I think it's fairer to assume ignorance than arrogance.
Specialisation is for people who want to live securely in large communities. It's one thing to design a small hut for a temperate climate, and another to design a block of flats which can withstand a natural disaster. It's one thing to program a computer, and another thing to write robust software which handles exceptional cases well and doesn't let a script kiddie drive a bus through it. So by all means, attempt to eliminate specialisation, but only if you're happy living in a small hunter-gatherer community.
Are you saying that you want browsers to only work to spec in the USA? Or are you expecting browser developers to have regexes for social security numbers in every country in the world, and to keep up-to-date with the legislation which is the closest local equivalent to HIPAA?
Who? Do you mean Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II? If you're an anti-monarchist and don't want to dignify her with her correct style, go the whole way and call her Elizabeth Windsor.
Books will cost between £20 and £100. You can of course attempt to buy these second handed / resell them after the fact, but there will also be an attempt to force you to buy new.
Depends. I needed a grand total of one book in my entire university career. Nearly all of my lecturers gave us handouts. One of them gave us photocopies of about half her book as handouts - although I'm not sure whether her contract with the publisher permitted that or not. The one book I bought because I needed it was important background for my dissertation, and cost 41 pounds.
You're missing the fact that recipes aren't expressed in metric by taking recipes in Imperial, converting them as precisely as possible, and writing them down with more precision than the original Imperial values. It would be 15g, which isn't too hard to multiply by 3, leaving aside the fact that scarcely any recipes use non-integral numbers of ounces anyway. My cake book (metric with Imperial in brackets) uses 25g/ounce as a conversion factor, which given the errors inherent in using an analogue scale isn't going to have a noticeable effect on all but a vanishingly small number of recipes.
For everyday uses, such as cooking, values are normally given in grams rather than fractions of a kilogram. For drinks, people buy a third of a litre or a half litre. People can adapt to almost any change: the problem isn't that the system doesn't work (or the rest of the world would have abandoned it) but that people don't like change.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'd say Spacetrawler's actually got more in common with Schlock (particularly moderately early Schlock) than H2G2 or RD, but hey.
Sure, but if I get a user report "This doesn't work in my Firefox" then I want to know what version they're using so I can attempt to reproduce, and I don't want to have to talk them through the hoops they have to jump through to find out.
It's perfectly reasonable to give research grants to investigate questions we don't know the answer to. On condition, of course, that the researcher knows what answer they'll find. (Paragraph 3).
You say that the article is not about signing a contract and then say that it's their fault for signing a deal. What kind of legally binding deal exists in your neck of the woods which isn't a contract?
I interpreted "to never have to work at anything I didn't want to do" as meaning not on top of current salary. My calculation is on the basis that while Vimes' law is in your favour - buy a house without having to pay loads for cumulative interest - and you can probably get a reasonable interest rate, it's unlikely to be more than about 1% above inflation. which means that your $500k left over after the house is giving you $5k a year for food, fuel, maintaining car and house, holidays. If you're within a decade of retiring anyway you're probably not too worried about using more and depleting the capital, but if you're in your early 30s you don't want to look a fool having to get back into the workplace in 20 years time.
Again, there should be a sanity check made against their ID when they exit airside. If their passport number isn't linked to an incoming flight (and if they can avoid passport checks on the way out this whole scheme is overblown) that should raise an alert at passport control.
My three friends leave the airport and go home, while I go airside with four boarding passes. There I meet three confederates, inbound from random country X. We then board the flight to Edinburgh
This is where the scheme should, in theory, break down. When your friends go home and you go through the security control, your boarding card will be the only one they scan. The other three should raise an alert when used at the gate without having been used at the security control.
No it doesn't. The UK (like the U.S. and Canada) doesn't have exit controls either, sure the airlines check you have a passport, but the government only checks on the way in.
That's not true in general for international flights into the UK. I've flown into five different UK airports from Spain and every time I've had to show my passport to Border Agency officials.
After A lands and is through to the UK, B returns landside.
This is the tricky bit. I've been at the gate in Stansted when the airline announced that there was no co-pilot, and we had to return to landside. They opened some doors which are normally kept locked, and sent us through passport control. The best bet for person B would probably be to claim to have missed their flight, but I would be surprised if they pulled it off - especially if they've had to mill around in the departure lounge for the best part of an hour to give person A time.
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Asking for figures to be given with units which actually make sense indicates competence, not arrogance. The arrogance, if any, is the submitter assuming that everyone uses the same software as them (boosting by "at least 2 to 4 bars" indicates that it can boost by more, which would be quite impressive with software where 4 bars is as high as it goes), but I think it's fairer to assume ignorance than arrogance.
Specialisation is for people who want to live securely in large communities. It's one thing to design a small hut for a temperate climate, and another to design a block of flats which can withstand a natural disaster. It's one thing to program a computer, and another thing to write robust software which handles exceptional cases well and doesn't let a script kiddie drive a bus through it. So by all means, attempt to eliminate specialisation, but only if you're happy living in a small hunter-gatherer community.
Are you saying that you want browsers to only work to spec in the USA? Or are you expecting browser developers to have regexes for social security numbers in every country in the world, and to keep up-to-date with the legislation which is the closest local equivalent to HIPAA?
No. She has never been a Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. That some of her ancestors had that surname is irrelevant.
Who? Do you mean Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II? If you're an anti-monarchist and don't want to dignify her with her correct style, go the whole way and call her Elizabeth Windsor.
Is forcing people to use one-character names a good influence on coding style?
Books will cost between £20 and £100. You can of course attempt to buy these second handed / resell them after the fact, but there will also be an attempt to force you to buy new.
Depends. I needed a grand total of one book in my entire university career. Nearly all of my lecturers gave us handouts. One of them gave us photocopies of about half her book as handouts - although I'm not sure whether her contract with the publisher permitted that or not. The one book I bought because I needed it was important background for my dissertation, and cost 41 pounds.
Don't worry. Give it a couple of days and you'll have forgotten it ;)
You're missing the fact that recipes aren't expressed in metric by taking recipes in Imperial, converting them as precisely as possible, and writing them down with more precision than the original Imperial values. It would be 15g, which isn't too hard to multiply by 3, leaving aside the fact that scarcely any recipes use non-integral numbers of ounces anyway. My cake book (metric with Imperial in brackets) uses 25g/ounce as a conversion factor, which given the errors inherent in using an analogue scale isn't going to have a noticeable effect on all but a vanishingly small number of recipes.
For everyday uses, such as cooking, values are normally given in grams rather than fractions of a kilogram. For drinks, people buy a third of a litre or a half litre. People can adapt to almost any change: the problem isn't that the system doesn't work (or the rest of the world would have abandoned it) but that people don't like change.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'd say Spacetrawler's actually got more in common with Schlock (particularly moderately early Schlock) than H2G2 or RD, but hey.
I'm sure they'd tell me that not much has changed from their perspective in the past few years.
(Ice is one of the things you can get delivered by supermarkets where I live)
Only if you have a non-rhotic accent.
Sure, but if I get a user report "This doesn't work in my Firefox" then I want to know what version they're using so I can attempt to reproduce, and I don't want to have to talk them through the hoops they have to jump through to find out.
It's perfectly reasonable to give research grants to investigate questions we don't know the answer to. On condition, of course, that the researcher knows what answer they'll find. (Paragraph 3).
You say that the article is not about signing a contract and then say that it's their fault for signing a deal. What kind of legally binding deal exists in your neck of the woods which isn't a contract?
I interpreted "to never have to work at anything I didn't want to do" as meaning not on top of current salary. My calculation is on the basis that while Vimes' law is in your favour - buy a house without having to pay loads for cumulative interest - and you can probably get a reasonable interest rate, it's unlikely to be more than about 1% above inflation. which means that your $500k left over after the house is giving you $5k a year for food, fuel, maintaining car and house, holidays. If you're within a decade of retiring anyway you're probably not too worried about using more and depleting the capital, but if you're in your early 30s you don't want to look a fool having to get back into the workplace in 20 years time.
Are you in your 50s or planning to move to somewhere where the average wage is about $10k?
Ah, sorry: I misunderstood you to be talking about exiting airside to landside rather than exiting the country.
Again, there should be a sanity check made against their ID when they exit airside. If their passport number isn't linked to an incoming flight (and if they can avoid passport checks on the way out this whole scheme is overblown) that should raise an alert at passport control.
My three friends leave the airport and go home, while I go airside with four boarding passes. There I meet three confederates, inbound from random country X. We then board the flight to Edinburgh
This is where the scheme should, in theory, break down. When your friends go home and you go through the security control, your boarding card will be the only one they scan. The other three should raise an alert when used at the gate without having been used at the security control.
No it doesn't. The UK (like the U.S. and Canada) doesn't have exit controls either, sure the airlines check you have a passport, but the government only checks on the way in.
That's not true in general for international flights into the UK. I've flown into five different UK airports from Spain and every time I've had to show my passport to Border Agency officials.
After A lands and is through to the UK, B returns landside.
This is the tricky bit. I've been at the gate in Stansted when the airline announced that there was no co-pilot, and we had to return to landside. They opened some doors which are normally kept locked, and sent us through passport control. The best bet for person B would probably be to claim to have missed their flight, but I would be surprised if they pulled it off - especially if they've had to mill around in the departure lounge for the best part of an hour to give person A time.
First photo evidence of tool-using fish
I misread it in a different way, and found it hard to believe that no-one had previously taken a photo of fish.