... but all to often, such bantering is indeed refering to real shady deels, and the joke is on the public at large which thinks that their bank (or whatever) is having their best interest in mind when dealing with their money.
The fact that after "discovery" of such e-mails, the joke is on the banks is actually a good thing!
So, all this software will achieve is just make those indelicates more careful about making sure that the butts of their jokes can't hear them...
The idea of (internet-based) grocery delivery is not exactly new, as far as I remember the first such systems came out some ten years ago, but so far none really has gotten off the ground.
If it takes that long, I doubt that venture capitalists would still get behind it. That window closed years ago... (obviously, the first such services did have funding... but somehow they couldn't reach critical mass to move beyond their initial stages...)
Paper-based systems did exist (and were successful) during my parent's time (we had a milkman and a baker doing home-to-home delivery, and almost the entire neighborhood was "subscribed"), but somehow these have gone out of fashion.
Before solving the "traveling salesman problem", these delivery services would first need to solve the "chicken and egg problem": Namely, it only works out (both economically and ecologically) if they have enough customers that they can serve more then one per trip... (and while they haven't enough yet, they'd be too expensive to get more...)
ok, maybe not for a family, but for an individual student, this is definately feasible. I did it myself when I was studying in Palo Alto, and it wasn't even a proper backpack. Just beware of not packing too tightly if you've bought eggs...
Actually, "packing a truck perfectly" is more difficult than the mere "knapsack problem" (where it is enough if everything fits, but order doesn't matter), because you need to make sure that the boxes are in the right order for easy retrieval during delivery. You don't want to have to completely unload and repack the truck at each stop, because the boxes you need next happen to be at the bottom and furthest away from the truck door...
got bit by an outlier (or their "acceptable level" wasn't good enough).
Indeed, their acceptable level wasn't good enough. There have been tsunamis larger than this one in the region within the last two hundred years, so it was predictable that eventually another one just as large would happen.
Excel marks parameters by drawing coloured borders around the selected range of cells.
Only while you are doing the selection. Later it becomes non-obvious, unless you specifically check for this.
The way these kinds of errors come, is that on an empty sheet you "make room" for 15 countries over which to average, you later at them one by one, and at the 16th country you no longer know that you only had room for 15, and that the numbers of the last one are basically getting silently ignored.
Well, there are levels of vacuum [wikipedia.org] graded by orders of magnitude drop from one atmosphere, according to Wikipedia. But "spacelike" isn't one of them
It was a mistake while selecting the cells to calculate the average on (inadvertedly excluding Belgium).
That's still Excels fault for: a) making this not obvious to spot, and b) being marketed in such a way that people believe that any idiot should be able to use it... while actually, thought and care are still required.
If you make a product pandering to idiots, don't be astonished if only idiots and frustrated people *) use it, producting the expected results... (* The latter being forced to use it by the former in their workplace)
Certificates are global. A single bad CA spoils the trust in all of them. So Mozilla has to pull those. (yes, this is a problem with how SSL currently works)
Mod parent up. So many sites use IE-specific elements for their resume/application submission process that it's highly unlikely they will have ANY candidates who don't show an IE browser string.
But those few that do will show that they have the smarts to get it working in firefox anyways, despite the site designer's "best" efforts to try to exclude them... (No, the exclusion does not necessarily need to be based on browser string, it could also be something silly than IE's non-standard way of handling CSS and/or javascript...)
IMHO, installing a full GNU/Linux distro on your system must make you a genius
Which would not be a good thing. First, geniuses know more than their manager. Then, geniuses get bored easily and will spend their "work" time on more interesting things... And finally, geniuses know how to set up a VPN or ssh tunnel from work to their system at home (or their system at whatever association they volunteer "their" time for sysadmin).
If A and B depend on a common cause C, I'd say, it's still causation.
If A and B happen together just through merely good/bad luck (or because the researcher "carefully" cherry-picked his sample...), then it's just correlation.
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No one asks if a dancing bear dances well.
As long as he's big, furry and cuddly, who cares?
... how I feel when I get a ticket for "network slowness" and when I arrive at the site I find they're using token-ring.
I'd say token ring belongs on the junk yard, but nowadays even junk yards don't want it (and its proponents) any more. Next subject: Lotus Notes...
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The fact that after "discovery" of such e-mails, the joke is on the banks is actually a good thing!
So, all this software will achieve is just make those indelicates more careful about making sure that the butts of their jokes can't hear them...
If it takes that long, I doubt that venture capitalists would still get behind it. That window closed years ago... (obviously, the first such services did have funding... but somehow they couldn't reach critical mass to move beyond their initial stages...)
Paper-based systems did exist (and were successful) during my parent's time (we had a milkman and a baker doing home-to-home delivery, and almost the entire neighborhood was "subscribed"), but somehow these have gone out of fashion.
Before solving the "traveling salesman problem", these delivery services would first need to solve the "chicken and egg problem": Namely, it only works out (both economically and ecologically) if they have enough customers that they can serve more then one per trip... (and while they haven't enough yet, they'd be too expensive to get more...)
ok, maybe not for a family, but for an individual student, this is definately feasible. I did it myself when I was studying in Palo Alto, and it wasn't even a proper backpack. Just beware of not packing too tightly if you've bought eggs...
Actually, "packing a truck perfectly" is more difficult than the mere "knapsack problem" (where it is enough if everything fits, but order doesn't matter), because you need to make sure that the boxes are in the right order for easy retrieval during delivery. You don't want to have to completely unload and repack the truck at each stop, because the boxes you need next happen to be at the bottom and furthest away from the truck door...
... or batching it up with other trips (such as: "back from work")
Really? A grocery deliver has less carbon emission than me using public transportation (tram) on my way back form work?
And this would still be true even if you used your car back from work and stopped on the way to load up some groceries.
And I'd think a majority of people fetch their groceries on the way back from work, that's why so many supermarkets are near major arteries...
The only "extra" carbon dioxide emitted is the one spent while looking for a parking spot, i.e. negligible.
you can register .cx outside Christmas Island
Quick, a spoon! I need to gouge my eyes out real quick! .ca, cz, and ch a couple of years ago...)
(btw, that would have worked just as well with
HFT is basically betting on race horses with incredibly fast horses.
Are there any HFTs that speculate with ground beef futures?
Actually, it's a good lesson for the HFT... turn-around is fair-play!
got bit by an outlier (or their "acceptable level" wasn't good enough).
Indeed, their acceptable level wasn't good enough. There have been tsunamis larger than this one in the region within the last two hundred years, so it was predictable that eventually another one just as large would happen.
... and these do indeed cause fires (or even explosions) on occasion.
Not sure about the larva, but the rocket will always move on a timelike trajectory...
Yes, indeed. Even seasoned HTML developers occasionally forget that < is a special character, and needs to be escaped as < ...
Excel marks parameters by drawing coloured borders around the selected range of cells.
Only while you are doing the selection. Later it becomes non-obvious, unless you specifically check for this.
The way these kinds of errors come, is that on an empty sheet you "make room" for 15 countries over which to average, you later at them one by one, and at the 16th country you no longer know that you only had room for 15, and that the numbers of the last one are basically getting silently ignored.
Well, there are levels of vacuum [wikipedia.org] graded by orders of magnitude drop from one atmosphere, according to Wikipedia. But "spacelike" isn't one of them
Actually, you didn't read the article all through. Please read the section about Vacuums in general relativity...
ROTFL.... and I'm in an open office space...
That's still Excels fault for:
a) making this not obvious to spot, and
b) being marketed in such a way that people believe that any idiot should be able to use it... while actually, thought and care are still required.
If you make a product pandering to idiots, don't be astonished if only idiots and frustrated people *) use it, producting the expected results...
(* The latter being forced to use it by the former in their workplace)
Certificates are global. A single bad CA spoils the trust in all of them. So Mozilla has to pull those. (yes, this is a problem with how SSL currently works)
Mod parent up. So many sites use IE-specific elements for their resume/application submission process that it's highly unlikely they will have ANY candidates who don't show an IE browser string.
But those few that do will show that they have the smarts to get it working in firefox anyways, despite the site designer's "best" efforts to try to exclude them... (No, the exclusion does not necessarily need to be based on browser string, it could also be something silly than IE's non-standard way of handling CSS and/or javascript...)
IMHO, installing a full GNU/Linux distro on your system must make you a genius
Which would not be a good thing. First, geniuses know more than their manager. Then, geniuses get bored easily and will spend their "work" time on more interesting things... And finally, geniuses know how to set up a VPN or ssh tunnel from work to their system at home (or their system at whatever association they volunteer "their" time for sysadmin).
If A and B happen together just through merely good/bad luck (or because the researcher "carefully" cherry-picked his sample...), then it's just correlation.