no - people from Texas just don't pronounce syllables which they think are unnecessary. I'm the Britain, so I'll pronounce all the syllables in the words as written, and just grumble about having to pronounce the ones which I don't think should be necessary.
congratulations, you're a freakish person who can touchtype.
I don't have sufficent control over those two fingers to push ring finger down and then middle finger down with any degree of speed or accuracy, let alone proficiently getting the right fingers over the right keys in the first place.
Actually, until I started thinking about this, I didn't realise how much I relied upon just my middle finger of my left hand. Index, middle and ring get used on my right hand though. Interestingly, most of my typing errors are generated by right-hand keystrokes, despite having less overworked fingers (doesn't anyone else with a GB keyboard repeatedly type I@m when they want I'm? I think that it's to do with using the ring finger to go for shift and then rocking over to press the '/@ key with the middle finger, thus keeping shift depressed)
well, the 'e' is next to 'w', so you have to push one finger down, take it back up, move it, push it down again, bring it back up again, and then push a different finger down for the 'b'. I suppose the time saving is dependent on whether the overlap time that can be saved by pressing 'b' down whilst 'e' is still coming back up outweights the time lost in moving the first finger from 'w' to 'e'. In the wider picture there's the consideration of how often errors will occur, and how long it would take to go back and correct them (for both letter combinations).
were that it were. For the purposes of diambiguation I find myself saying "H-T-T-P colon forwardslash forwardslash", which is another wasted syllable for each slash
Interestingly, in the UK, you can claim unemployment benefit while selling Avon or somesuch similar, so long as you don't do it too much, but 'too much' is not measured by the income you make from it, but by the hours you put in - you get no benefits if you put more than 16 hours \ week into doing it, even if you only make 50p.
surely, if he sold it for less than he paid for it, it's not a capital gain at all. When you buy and sell shares, you have capital gains on the profit you make by selling shares for more than you paid for them, not just on any cash you get paid for shares. (IANATL)
you miss the real reason for PPI. PPI lets you have shiny new stuff now, and burdens the public purse of the future with having to pay several times what it cost in future. This means that the years of the labour government are remembered as a time of plenty, when new schools and hospitals were built by the hundreds, and the inevitable subsequent tory government is seen as the years of thrift, as the government can afford to do little more than pay for the stuff built 10 years earlier. Welcome to screwing up the country in the cause of spiteful politicing
Private sector roads aren't that far out, after all the industrial road network of the UK was built privately (as were the canals and the railways; people have short memories here).
More recently, the nationalised railways were privatised back out. That made things worse. The economy of South Wales continually carries around its neck the millstone of having a toll bridge cutting it off from the rest of the country. And, for a healthy dose of irony, the cross-continental railway line in the US was built entirely from the public purse.
Is "I haven't had a job since I graduated university (i.e. since I entered the jobs market for the first time)" a good answer? How about "I currently don't have a job because my last job ceased at the end of the work"?
there's a difference between not mentioning awkward facts, sending out a CV tailored to emphasize the information about you relevant to the job and outright lying. Don't lie in the recruitment process, don't ever lie. All your employment protection goes out the window if you lied when you were recruited and you can be dumped immediately at any point afterwards.
Knowing what documents your agent has sent to the employer may be useful so you can surgically correct them (rather than floundering about over them in the middle of the interview), but there's no guarantee that the agent will send you back what they really sent to the employer, and if they do send you the real falsified documents it becomes doubly important to correct them immediately.
then the problem reverts to 1-person-wielding-all-the-power. The obvious solution is to construct juries in specialist cases from a more limited pool of people who have knowledge of the subject matter.
In the case of a 3d model, would it not be easier to 'print' the model - use a 3D prototyper to create a physical version of the file. If anyone wants to manipulate it in future, they can scan it back in (the technology to do this already exists too). Other materials can be printed too. Rather than try to solve the 'how do we read this file format in the future' problem, sidestep it entirely by providing what you're trying to get across in human-readable form. It may be worth providing printouts of the binary too for exact replication purposes, but a copy which shows what the file is supposed to look like if you've decoded it right will make life much easier in the future.
Luckily, the user can sue the bank for abuse of process.
Why is that? Yes, the bank asked the judge to approve an illegal order, but it's the judge's job to be the gatekeeper and he messed up. Persons wrongly harmed by illegal orders from judges should be able to sue the judge (in a professional capacity). It's not fair on the bank either to make them pay compensation for illegal orders approved by the judge.
Also, what do they do if the order gets overturned after Google has already complied with it and annihilated the account?
Killing the account has probably annihilated the account owner's entire record of their communications from others, and is akin to entering someone's office and destroying all their correspondence. That seems like the other side of the free speech coin to me.
I was just pre-empting the suggestion that jurors should simply be paid at the same rate as they would usually be paid at their day job, since this would inevitably cause some jurors to be paid more than others, and may result in the lower-paid ones getting the idea that they don't have to put as much effort and care into jury service as the higher-paid ones.
I don't understand what has happened to Virgin. Well, that's not entirely true, I understand what's happened to Virgin - they became Virgin. When they were ntl our connection was always fine and fast enough, then Virgin took over, knocked bitrates up to stupid levels and never upgraded the infrastructure behind it. Performance tanked, and it wasn't just a slow connection, it was constant dropping of packets. (which is a far worse problem if you need low latency) At one point, I ran a speed test and our supposedly 10Mbit internet connection was running at 86kbps. (largely caused by only a fraction of packets getting all of the way through) This continued for FOUR MONTHS. About halfway through that time, an engineer came out, and prodded a few things and explained about the packet dropping becaue of lack of infrastructure (I'm assuming that he was honest), and blamed it on the nearby students, and made a few phone calls and told us that there was an upgrade planned for the hardware upstream which should be in by the end of the year (this is mid-November). The new year came and went, the connection got no better, then some time a few months later, one Monday, it just suddenly started working properly. I assumed it was just one of those blips when it did work (presumably because less people were trying to use their connections) and enjoyed it for a few hours. That afternoon Virgin called to ask if we still wanted to persue our connection problems, and when I said that we did, they put me through to some chap in India who did a short bank of tests with me and, surprise, surprise, everything was working properly. He then had a very patronising spiel about that being the correct speed, and then everything just sort of petered out while I was still busy being flabbergasted that they had called to test it at the one flaming time when it was working fine. As it was, the connection didn't get any worse after that, so I presume that the long-awaited upgrade had finally gone in. I refuse to believe that it was a coincidence that they called to test and make a record of how our connection was on the day that their hardware upgrades fixed it. (This problem had been rumbling along with letters and phone calls for weeks, and this was the first time they called to do testing on their terms).
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no - people from Texas just don't pronounce syllables which they think are unnecessary. I'm the Britain, so I'll pronounce all the syllables in the words as written, and just grumble about having to pronounce the ones which I don't think should be necessary.
congratulations, you're a freakish person who can touchtype.
I don't have sufficent control over those two fingers to push ring finger down and then middle finger down with any degree of speed or accuracy, let alone proficiently getting the right fingers over the right keys in the first place.
Actually, until I started thinking about this, I didn't realise how much I relied upon just my middle finger of my left hand. Index, middle and ring get used on my right hand though. Interestingly, most of my typing errors are generated by right-hand keystrokes, despite having less overworked fingers (doesn't anyone else with a GB keyboard repeatedly type I@m when they want I'm? I think that it's to do with using the ring finger to go for shift and then rocking over to press the '/@ key with the middle finger, thus keeping shift depressed)
well, the 'e' is next to 'w', so you have to push one finger down, take it back up, move it, push it down again, bring it back up again, and then push a different finger down for the 'b'. I suppose the time saving is dependent on whether the overlap time that can be saved by pressing 'b' down whilst 'e' is still coming back up outweights the time lost in moving the first finger from 'w' to 'e'.
In the wider picture there's the consideration of how often errors will occur, and how long it would take to go back and correct them (for both letter combinations).
were that it were. For the purposes of diambiguation I find myself saying "H-T-T-P colon forwardslash forwardslash", which is another wasted syllable for each slash
Interestingly, in the UK, you can claim unemployment benefit while selling Avon or somesuch similar, so long as you don't do it too much, but 'too much' is not measured by the income you make from it, but by the hours you put in - you get no benefits if you put more than 16 hours \ week into doing it, even if you only make 50p.
surely, if he sold it for less than he paid for it, it's not a capital gain at all. When you buy and sell shares, you have capital gains on the profit you make by selling shares for more than you paid for them, not just on any cash you get paid for shares. (IANATL)
anywhere that not an 'at-will' state in the US?
you miss the real reason for PPI. PPI lets you have shiny new stuff now, and burdens the public purse of the future with having to pay several times what it cost in future. This means that the years of the labour government are remembered as a time of plenty, when new schools and hospitals were built by the hundreds, and the inevitable subsequent tory government is seen as the years of thrift, as the government can afford to do little more than pay for the stuff built 10 years earlier.
Welcome to screwing up the country in the cause of spiteful politicing
More recently, the nationalised railways were privatised back out. That made things worse.
The economy of South Wales continually carries around its neck the millstone of having a toll bridge cutting it off from the rest of the country.
And, for a healthy dose of irony, the cross-continental railway line in the US was built entirely from the public purse.
and, oh look, all your games were unified on one account. $100s down the swanny for you.
Is "I haven't had a job since I graduated university (i.e. since I entered the jobs market for the first time)" a good answer?
How about "I currently don't have a job because my last job ceased at the end of the work"?
there's a difference between not mentioning awkward facts, sending out a CV tailored to emphasize the information about you relevant to the job and outright lying. Don't lie in the recruitment process, don't ever lie. All your employment protection goes out the window if you lied when you were recruited and you can be dumped immediately at any point afterwards.
Knowing what documents your agent has sent to the employer may be useful so you can surgically correct them (rather than floundering about over them in the middle of the interview), but there's no guarantee that the agent will send you back what they really sent to the employer, and if they do send you the real falsified documents it becomes doubly important to correct them immediately.
They are not, however, within their rights to keep his money. He is within his rights to take them to the cleaners, sorry, courts
Did anyone think to tell them when they landed that they hadn't actually crossed the Atlantic yet?
then the problem reverts to 1-person-wielding-all-the-power. The obvious solution is to construct juries in specialist cases from a more limited pool of people who have knowledge of the subject matter.
In the case of a 3d model, would it not be easier to 'print' the model - use a 3D prototyper to create a physical version of the file. If anyone wants to manipulate it in future, they can scan it back in (the technology to do this already exists too). Other materials can be printed too. Rather than try to solve the 'how do we read this file format in the future' problem, sidestep it entirely by providing what you're trying to get across in human-readable form. It may be worth providing printouts of the binary too for exact replication purposes, but a copy which shows what the file is supposed to look like if you've decoded it right will make life much easier in the future.
Why is that?
Yes, the bank asked the judge to approve an illegal order, but it's the judge's job to be the gatekeeper and he messed up. Persons wrongly harmed by illegal orders from judges should be able to sue the judge (in a professional capacity). It's not fair on the bank either to make them pay compensation for illegal orders approved by the judge.
Also, what do they do if the order gets overturned after Google has already complied with it and annihilated the account?
Killing the account has probably annihilated the account owner's entire record of their communications from others, and is akin to entering someone's office and destroying all their correspondence. That seems like the other side of the free speech coin to me.
cake baking is an important social skill, second only to playing a musical instrument.
Get a good recipe, follow it to the letter, and if you still screw it up, you don't deserve cake.
I was just pre-empting the suggestion that jurors should simply be paid at the same rate as they would usually be paid at their day job, since this would inevitably cause some jurors to be paid more than others, and may result in the lower-paid ones getting the idea that they don't have to put as much effort and care into jury service as the higher-paid ones.
I don't know, but I think that was the point that GP was trying to make...
I can't be bothered to RTFA, do they get to keep the hardware too?
I don't understand what has happened to Virgin. Well, that's not entirely true, I understand what's happened to Virgin - they became Virgin.
When they were ntl our connection was always fine and fast enough, then Virgin took over, knocked bitrates up to stupid levels and never upgraded the infrastructure behind it. Performance tanked, and it wasn't just a slow connection, it was constant dropping of packets. (which is a far worse problem if you need low latency)
At one point, I ran a speed test and our supposedly 10Mbit internet connection was running at 86kbps. (largely caused by only a fraction of packets getting all of the way through)
This continued for FOUR MONTHS.
About halfway through that time, an engineer came out, and prodded a few things and explained about the packet dropping becaue of lack of infrastructure (I'm assuming that he was honest), and blamed it on the nearby students, and made a few phone calls and told us that there was an upgrade planned for the hardware upstream which should be in by the end of the year (this is mid-November).
The new year came and went, the connection got no better, then some time a few months later, one Monday, it just suddenly started working properly. I assumed it was just one of those blips when it did work (presumably because less people were trying to use their connections) and enjoyed it for a few hours.
That afternoon Virgin called to ask if we still wanted to persue our connection problems, and when I said that we did, they put me through to some chap in India who did a short bank of tests with me and, surprise, surprise, everything was working properly. He then had a very patronising spiel about that being the correct speed, and then everything just sort of petered out while I was still busy being flabbergasted that they had called to test it at the one flaming time when it was working fine.
As it was, the connection didn't get any worse after that, so I presume that the long-awaited upgrade had finally gone in. I refuse to believe that it was a coincidence that they called to test and make a record of how our connection was on the day that their hardware upgrades fixed it. (This problem had been rumbling along with letters and phone calls for weeks, and this was the first time they called to do testing on their terms).
that's not exactly the same - that's paying for the measures that you had to take to catch him, and is slightly less screwed up.
as a bottom-flight fortran programmer, I can safely say that there's no work. at all.