It's getting like the hilarious Razor Wars... Wilkinson introduce the double-blade cartridge, Gillette fight back with the Mach III, Wilkinson work doubletime to bring you the state-of-the-art Quattro!
Same thing as the megapixel nonsense, the sheep start to believe a higher number means a better product without worrying too much what the number represents, or whether having lots of that thing is necessarily good.
Oh wow! My dad gave me the same book, haven't thought about it for years. I remember the story about putting a grain of sand on the first square of a chessboard, two on the next, four on the next etc. I spent the rest of the day calculating 2^63 with a pen and paper. Think it started with a 9:-)
There was also one about a lily pad which doubled in size every day to completely cover a pond from the first to the last day of June... So what date did it cover half the pond? Yup, I guessed the 15th...
The number of times I would walk past some poor pedestrian surrounded by paramedics after being hit by a car was insane. Something had to be done about it.
Bizarre! I've lived in London 30 years, central and suburban, and see ambulances attending road accidents maybe once a year. You can't have it both ways - if the traffic is hardly moving there aren't going to be many high-speed impacts.
car tax cameras that issue a sumons when its out of date
This one has nothing to do with cameras. There's now a requirement to inform the authorities if a car is kept on private land and as such not liable for road tax. Hence *any* car without a current SORN (annual notification that it's off the public roads), and which has not been scrapped must have a current tax disc.
I'm not American. I didn't say anything about America or Americans. It was not a rant, it was a report of my extensive experience, and I specifically stated there were exceptions. Who's the one with the logical reasoning problems?
I find the level of cynicism in comments in any article related to India quite surprising
Amongst a less savvy readership I'd be inclined to agree with you... but here, I think the response you describe is largely from techies who have had the experience of working with Indian firms. They are typically (sweeping generalisation, of course there are exceptions) very eager to please and absolutely useless.
The firm I'm contracted to at the moment asked me to review some code sent back as a finished product by an Indian software house. It was hilariously bad. I reported back that the time it would take to fix it up would be greater than the time to write it properly from scratch. And I've seen this again and again and again. That's where the cynicism comes from - frustration that a resource which could be useful just isn't and doesn't seem to be improving.
will do anything to not get pulled into court on a class-action lawsuit over not accepting returned CDs...
What a bizarre country! Are you seriously saying they *have* to let you cancel the sales contract unilaterally for no reason other than that you want to?
BS. Any commercially-available generator can be filled while running. They're designed that way. I'm guessing what you do for a living is claim benefits subsidised by people who know what they're talking about!
AP's should be 802.11b/g compliant (more expensive) for compatibility
Bzzzzt! WRONG! They should be straight 802.11b for cheapness (802.11g cards will still work), I'm guessing he's not looking to offer >11Mbps to visitors...
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during a theatre show we use a hell of a lot of power, and the power companies takes this peak rate and charges us across the board at that rate
Surely not *at that rate*, why in hell would you agree to that? A rate *based on* peak usage, maybe, but not one assuming peak usage continuously!
Dude, you're so last millenium...
Not being able to spell "millennium" is rather 1999 too, isn't it?
COMPUTER crash is by far the least traumatic kind
What about two of those little baggage carts crashing in the arrivals area? Surely that's even less traumatic?
watching tv is far more better than
'Nuff said.
why are the so many people who are incapable of erading anything other than the subject of the article?
Poor eductation, perhaps, or just laziness. Same reason some people cannot psell properly.
It's getting like the hilarious Razor Wars... Wilkinson introduce the double-blade cartridge, Gillette fight back with the Mach III, Wilkinson work doubletime to bring you the state-of-the-art Quattro!
Same thing as the megapixel nonsense, the sheep start to believe a higher number means a better product without worrying too much what the number represents, or whether having lots of that thing is necessarily good.
Indeed. The story itself is of some value, but the headline is a truism. Too much of anything is harmful - that's what "too much" means.
How many attempts did he get? I could do this in under a second if you're prepared to overlook me getting it wrong maybe a few million times first...
Oh wow! My dad gave me the same book, haven't thought about it for years. I remember the story about putting a grain of sand on the first square of a chessboard, two on the next, four on the next etc. I spent the rest of the day calculating 2^63 with a pen and paper. Think it started with a 9 :-)
There was also one about a lily pad which doubled in size every day to completely cover a pond from the first to the last day of June... So what date did it cover half the pond? Yup, I guessed the 15th...
Thanks, dude, happy memories!
American's don't have to
http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/
Enough said.
how pong was going to simulate real tennis
I think you mean lawn tennis, old chap. Real tennis is a far superior game.
Gotta love people who put the word "database" in .mdb filenames.
the programmers' heads implode, causing death within 2 hours.
2 hours seems like a long time to hold out with an imploded head...
if I had $3000 I would go buy a Segway scooter to ride around all day. Think how many women that would get me!
:-)
And when you realise the answer is "none at all" you could ride it off a cliff and get the whole freefall thing thrown in too
The number of times I would walk past some poor pedestrian surrounded by paramedics after being hit by a car was insane. Something had to be done about it.
Bizarre! I've lived in London 30 years, central and suburban, and see ambulances attending road accidents maybe once a year. You can't have it both ways - if the traffic is hardly moving there aren't going to be many high-speed impacts.
car tax cameras that issue a sumons when its out of date
This one has nothing to do with cameras. There's now a requirement to inform the authorities if a car is kept on private land and as such not liable for road tax. Hence *any* car without a current SORN (annual notification that it's off the public roads), and which has not been scrapped must have a current tax disc.
Fair enough, I'd say...
I'm not American. I didn't say anything about America or Americans. It was not a rant, it was a report of my extensive experience, and I specifically stated there were exceptions. Who's the one with the logical reasoning problems?
I find the level of cynicism in comments in any article related to India quite surprising
Amongst a less savvy readership I'd be inclined to agree with you... but here, I think the response you describe is largely from techies who have had the experience of working with Indian firms. They are typically (sweeping generalisation, of course there are exceptions) very eager to please and absolutely useless.
The firm I'm contracted to at the moment asked me to review some code sent back as a finished product by an Indian software house. It was hilariously bad. I reported back that the time it would take to fix it up would be greater than the time to write it properly from scratch. And I've seen this again and again and again. That's where the cynicism comes from - frustration that a resource which could be useful just isn't and doesn't seem to be improving.
The wife is in bed and the man brings 2 aspirin and a glass water. The wife says, 'I don't have a headache!'
:-)
The point being: if you volunteer information, you get fucked
will do anything to not get pulled into court on a class-action lawsuit over not accepting returned CDs...
What a bizarre country! Are you seriously saying they *have* to let you cancel the sales contract unilaterally for no reason other than that you want to?
they wouldn't be able to fix my internet
What's the point in even having your own internet? Why not use the same one as everybody else?
BS. Any commercially-available generator can be filled while running. They're designed that way. I'm guessing what you do for a living is claim benefits subsidised by people who know what they're talking about!
judging by the number of entries and the percentages of countries per entries
Does it still count as a win for the country the team registered from if they outsource the actual work to India?
Why's power a problem? What am I missing?
1. Rent generator
2. Fill generator
3. Start generator
4. Plug stuff into generator
5. ???
6. Profit!!
AP's should be 802.11b/g compliant (more expensive) for compatibility
Bzzzzt! WRONG! They should be straight 802.11b for cheapness (802.11g cards will still work), I'm guessing he's not looking to offer >11Mbps to visitors...