The aforementioned comment could have been just as insightful, if nor more so, had it simply been "London cabbies have to learn the layout of streets and the locations of thousands of places of interest in order to get a licence."
Well, that's just untrue. I didn't know American cab drivers weren't required to take a similar test. The comment which appeared gave that information, whereas your suggested replacement doesn't.
To be fair you can't really calculate DOA levels from a single purchase, either - you're going to conclude the DOA rate is either 0% or 100% with that sample size...
The Home versions are limited to 5 'concurrent' connections. Which seems quite reasonable, because if you have a big enough family that you have 5 OTHER users in your house accessing a file or printer on your computer 'at the same time' then you probably need something other than the HOME edition.
Perhaps you mean "buries away inside in special invisible micro-font"?
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Agreed. What's all the fuss about? Kid is stealing music, kid must be stopped from stealing music. What is everyone else suggesting, kids should be able to help themselves to stuff?
Hey - Johnny - go steal me a Ferrari 360 Spider.
>... but only watch BBC programmes No, watch any BBC programmes
>... and don't want to archive their favourite programmes This is not unusual at all. Very few people archive TV.
>Have a fast internet connection... but don't download stuff already via P2P Lot of people have broadband, few know about/can be bothered with existing P2P.
>Are into new technology and gadgets... but only Use IE and Windows Again, no. It's *have access to IE and Windows*, not *only use*.
I look forward to any replacement to PDFs. Adobe is one of the most bloated, terrible peices of garbage
Hmm.. OK. You're confusing a format, a piece of software and a software company there.
Sounds like you're using Acrobat Reader. Not a great choice, as others have said, but you can at least
disable the little-used plug-ins to make it start much more quickly.
Don't criticise the format because you're using a lame product to read files in that format. It's like saying HTML is no good just because IE doesn't work.
BBC make enough money to either a) scrap tv license or b) give us cheaper DVD's.
Well that just isn't true. There are no shareholders and no distributed profits. The BBC does run commercial enterprises (selling shows overseas, selling DVDs etc), but the operating profits from those contribute to the cost of running the rest of the organisation. I'm not saying it's run terribly efficiently - I know it isn't - but accusations of profiteering are nonsense. And we spell it "licence" here - "license" is a verb.
(none of their jukeboxes allow for copying, streaming, or sharing DVDs)
Not sure that's really a necessary part of being a jukebox! A jukebox is specifically a machine into which you load a bunch of disks and then tell it which one(s) to play.
The
Daily Telegraph had a front-page piece about this today. Slow news day, obviously! The idea that it could be trained to corner burglars seems a bit far-fetched (staircase, anyone?) but the idea of it chasing after intruders while phoning the police, taking photos and, presumably, shouting "EXTERMINATE!" is pretty cool...
Democracy has met it's most important ennemy, and it is the bourgeois
Settle down... One step at a time: first, learn how to spell "its". This will help others take you more seriously. Changing the whole world order is a bit further down the track...
Your items 1,2,3,5 are all the same thing (he needs to finalise sale before leaving). Your item 4 was probably the underlying reason! The guy was selling up and leaving to pursue an opportunity of a better life elsewhere. Of course you shouldn't trust everyone, but you should also understand that the vast majority of people *are* broadly honest and in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, take them at face value.
Slashdot Mirror
Apparently there was nothing in those books about disposing of evidence.
There was originally - in accordance with the instructions, he cut out and burned those pages...
The aforementioned comment could have been just as insightful, if nor more so, had it simply been "London cabbies have to learn the layout of streets and the locations of thousands of places of interest in order to get a licence."
Well, that's just untrue. I didn't know American cab drivers weren't required to take a similar test. The comment which appeared gave that information, whereas your suggested replacement doesn't.
It's so you can access any constituent part you want, not so you can consume the whole lot. Heard of Google? Same sort of idea...
To be fair you can't really calculate DOA levels from a single purchase, either - you're going to conclude the DOA rate is either 0% or 100% with that sample size...
BZZZTTT!!!
widely (as in across a large range of people and places, not as in having a large girth)
Widely never means "having a large girth". That's "wide". But thanks for playing...
Oh, and it's MILLENNIUM. Hopefully people will get this over the next 993 years.
Yes, you could filter it to only access expert-sex-change.com instead, depending on what it is you want a tutorial in...
The Home versions are limited to 5 'concurrent' connections. Which seems quite reasonable, because if you have a big enough family that you have 5 OTHER users in your house accessing a file or printer on your computer 'at the same time' then you probably need something other than the HOME edition.
Yeah, like contraception.
No, no, no. This is a Microsoft product. Didn't you get the memo about Trustworthy Computing? Worm, indeed!
Staples to the front?
Perhaps you mean "buries away inside in special invisible micro-font"?
Agreed. What's all the fuss about? Kid is stealing music, kid must be stopped from stealing music. What is everyone else suggesting, kids should be able to help themselves to stuff? Hey - Johnny - go steal me a Ferrari 360 Spider.
>Watch a lot of TV
... but don't download stuff already via P2P
... but only Use IE and Windows
No, watch any TV
>... but only watch BBC programmes
No, watch any BBC programmes
>... and don't want to archive their favourite programmes
This is not unusual at all. Very few people archive TV.
>Have a fast internet connection
Lot of people have broadband, few know about/can be bothered with existing P2P.
>Are into new technology and gadgets
Again, no. It's *have access to IE and Windows*, not *only use*.
Very weird post indeed.
No one seems to have mentioned this - ClearType for use on TFT screens, only reason I use XP instead of 2k on the WinBox at home now.
Um, the words "open" and "licensing" are not compatible
Agreed. I think they mean "open" as in "open for business"...
I look forward to any replacement to PDFs. Adobe is one of the most bloated, terrible peices of garbage
Hmm.. OK. You're confusing a format, a piece of software and a software company there.
Sounds like you're using Acrobat Reader. Not a great choice, as others have said, but you can at least disable the little-used plug-ins to make it start much more quickly.
Don't criticise the format because you're using a lame product to read files in that format. It's like saying HTML is no good just because IE doesn't work.
Wow, I've never been impressed by France before today.
No interest in wine, philosophy, mathematics, religion, rugby, food or art, then?
BBC make enough money to either a) scrap tv license or b) give us cheaper DVD's.
Well that just isn't true. There are no shareholders and no distributed profits. The BBC does run commercial enterprises (selling shows overseas, selling DVDs etc), but the operating profits from those contribute to the cost of running the rest of the organisation. I'm not saying it's run terribly efficiently - I know it isn't - but accusations of profiteering are nonsense. And we spell it "licence" here - "license" is a verb.
(none of their jukeboxes allow for copying, streaming, or sharing DVDs)
Not sure that's really a necessary part of being a jukebox! A jukebox is specifically a machine into which you load a bunch of disks and then tell it which one(s) to play.
The Daily Telegraph had a front-page piece about this today. Slow news day, obviously! The idea that it could be trained to corner burglars seems a bit far-fetched (staircase, anyone?) but the idea of it chasing after intruders while phoning the police, taking photos and, presumably, shouting "EXTERMINATE!" is pretty cool...
humans and gorillas were 98% the same geneticaly
Although true, some context is needed... the figure is as high as 85% for mice. 50% for a damn banana!
Democracy has met it's most important ennemy, and it is the bourgeois
Settle down... One step at a time: first, learn how to spell "its". This will help others take you more seriously. Changing the whole world order is a bit further down the track...
Your items 1,2,3,5 are all the same thing (he needs to finalise sale before leaving). Your item 4 was probably the underlying reason! The guy was selling up and leaving to pursue an opportunity of a better life elsewhere. Of course you shouldn't trust everyone, but you should also understand that the vast majority of people *are* broadly honest and in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, take them at face value.
because he was *leaving town* to go back to Russia
Clearly a criminal then. Nobody would leave the US of A voluntarily! Sheesh...
Burning in the public is a safety hazard
The public doesn't need burning in, it's ready to use right out of the box.
Ah yes, but...
Subject: FW: Viva La France!!
AP and UPI reported that the French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide."
The only two higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate."
The raise was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of France's white flag factories, completely disabling its military.
dont take the piss
You're new here, right?