Google sent a letter (on paper!) to my wife's business. It had a real letterhead with the google logo on it. They were trying to sell advertising. It was the first physical "google" thing I ever saw and it caused a moment of cognitive dissonance. Very strange.
I don't know about Aussie banks but in the UK, "walking into a branch" to address issues is about as effective as "walking into a tree". You almost invariably find yourself face-to-face with a mindless drone who can do no more than what computer says.
Definitely not with the commonwealth bank here in.au. The people who work there know their jobs are hanging by a thread and go out of their way to be helpful. One branch I go to has a triage person near the front door who gets the gist of your requirements then forwards you to second level people. The last person I dealt with finished the exchange by asking me to rate their performance. It looked like a standard part of the process. I have never known a bank employee to be less than completely helpful. They are about 1000 times better than the web site.
Yeah, well, if Google said they were going to offer a used car service, that'd probably be difficult and confronting for a whole bunch of used car salesmen. There appear to be no plans in that direction, and it's an industry that makes absolutely no sense for Google to get into.
Google checkout seems to put them in the same market as paypal.
With most Australian banks I can walk into a branch to address issues with my account. There are plenty of examples of people dealing with paypal and google where something goes wrong (say their account is suspended) and there is absolutely nothing they can do to make contact and fix the issue.
I don't think Australian banks should worry until their competition set up "bricks and mortar" premises.
The thing is I did a lot of hang gliding 20 or so years ago and the landings you describe were very easy. But about a year ago I was watching these guys flying at a coastal site in Australia (I helped one guy with his launch because he had run out of helpers) and every single landing on the beach resulted in a face plant. Just a small increase in stall speed makes that trick impossible.
Not sure how to explain the smooth terrain in the middle of the comet. Because the rough areas are associated with out gassing, the rough surface in that area is presumably the rubble left behind after much of the ice has gone. So is the smooth area non volatile? Maybe its mostly rock and the ice doesn't sublimate there.
Or alternatively perhaps the smooth area had volatiles but only fine grained solid material so the surface left over doesn't look as rough.
Back when Australia occupied East Timor as the UN peace force an Australian unit got into a fire fight with an Indonesian unit close to the East Timor - Indonesian border. After a couple of minutes banging away at each other officers on both sides held a sit down meeting right in the middle of the road between the disputing parties and compared maps. The Aussies claimed to have the official Indonesian survey maps of the region, and the story is that the other side were not so well equipped and relied on local knowledge about the location of the border.
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A lot of it is working on site, often with borrowed equipment, and under fairly strict security limitations. I might get given the code in a zip file and have to edit it on windows on notepad. Or I might be using the console port on an alpha server running Tru64 4.0
These are just examples. They are created by circumstances. Python places to much reliance on the text editing environment.
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Well yeah but out in the real world I might have to hack code on a test platform in vi or what ever editor is available. I might have to do it on a serial terminal in line by line mode. If you are developing small isolated apps on your home PC it is reasonable to say "just use an IDE" but the fact is you can't do that everywhere.
Korean people I know work very long hours, and often travel a long way to and from work. Many of them rely on their kids grandparents for child care. So maybe part of this is to keep the costs down for extended care into the evenings.
RI** could just go around and delete the contents. But your suggestions make me think of these solar powered lights we have in parks near my house. Perhaps I should break in and install a simple package with wifi gear. It could go for years before somebody removes it.
If you need to reach into a rack or whatnot then a long cable from your laptop should do the trick. For me the advantage of an iphone adapter is that you can reuse a device you will definitely have on you rather than having to carry the laptop everywhere.
This should work okay on my openmoko. It has a usb host mode and I have a usb-serial cable which I have used with a laptop as a console device.
I wonder if the number of people buying the dead tree version of the paper had increased? If you can't get it on line one option might be to buy one off a news stand, and that would not be included in the subscription numbers.
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Google sent a letter (on paper!) to my wife's business. It had a real letterhead with the google logo on it. They were trying to sell advertising. It was the first physical "google" thing I ever saw and it caused a moment of cognitive dissonance. Very strange.
I don't know about Aussie banks but in the UK, "walking into a branch" to address issues is about as effective as "walking into a tree". You almost invariably find yourself face-to-face with a mindless drone who can do no more than what computer says.
Definitely not with the commonwealth bank here in .au. The people who work there know their jobs are hanging by a thread and go out of their way to be helpful. One branch I go to has a triage person near the front door who gets the gist of your requirements then forwards you to second level people. The last person I dealt with finished the exchange by asking me to rate their performance. It looked like a standard part of the process. I have never known a bank employee to be less than completely helpful. They are about 1000 times better than the web site.
Yeah, well, if Google said they were going to offer a used car service, that'd probably be difficult and confronting for a whole bunch of used car salesmen. There appear to be no plans in that direction, and it's an industry that makes absolutely no sense for Google to get into.
Google checkout seems to put them in the same market as paypal.
How much is the US Bank bailout costing you, personally?
With most Australian banks I can walk into a branch to address issues with my account. There are plenty of examples of people dealing with paypal and google where something goes wrong (say their account is suspended) and there is absolutely nothing they can do to make contact and fix the issue.
I don't think Australian banks should worry until their competition set up "bricks and mortar" premises.
...because nothing will save the Governor General.
How about that? Gough was quoting the Sex Pistols. I never knew that.
Pretty much immediately I would say.
The operational engineers are oblivious to security
Its like saying Our bus drivers are oblivious to road safety. If they don't know how to do their jobs then you are screwed.
Put an air gap between your SCADA system and the internet.
The thing is I did a lot of hang gliding 20 or so years ago and the landings you describe were very easy. But about a year ago I was watching these guys flying at a coastal site in Australia (I helped one guy with his launch because he had run out of helpers) and every single landing on the beach resulted in a face plant. Just a small increase in stall speed makes that trick impossible.
If this catches on it could be a way to make the summer Olympics more interesting than the winter Olympics.
Not sure how to explain the smooth terrain in the middle of the comet. Because the rough areas are associated with out gassing, the rough surface in that area is presumably the rubble left behind after much of the ice has gone. So is the smooth area non volatile? Maybe its mostly rock and the ice doesn't sublimate there.
Or alternatively perhaps the smooth area had volatiles but only fine grained solid material so the surface left over doesn't look as rough.
Yes. Same here. With luck we will slashdot it so loading won't be such a memory hog.
The selection model might be different between X and Wayland apps. I would hate it if I was unable to cut and paste between applications.
Back when Australia occupied East Timor as the UN peace force an Australian unit got into a fire fight with an Indonesian unit close to the East Timor - Indonesian border. After a couple of minutes banging away at each other officers on both sides held a sit down meeting right in the middle of the road between the disputing parties and compared maps. The Aussies claimed to have the official Indonesian survey maps of the region, and the story is that the other side were not so well equipped and relied on local knowledge about the location of the border.
At least it has their email address.
Some of us like being parents.
A lot of it is working on site, often with borrowed equipment, and under fairly strict security limitations. I might get given the code in a zip file and have to edit it on windows on notepad. Or I might be using the console port on an alpha server running Tru64 4.0
These are just examples. They are created by circumstances. Python places to much reliance on the text editing environment.
Well yeah but out in the real world I might have to hack code on a test platform in vi or what ever editor is available. I might have to do it on a serial terminal in line by line mode. If you are developing small isolated apps on your home PC it is reasonable to say "just use an IDE" but the fact is you can't do that everywhere.
I dread to think what kind of robots Kim Jong Il would want to put in classrooms...
I am betting they will have lotus notes and a machine gun.
Korean people I know work very long hours, and often travel a long way to and from work. Many of them rely on their kids grandparents for child care. So maybe part of this is to keep the costs down for extended care into the evenings.
RI** could just go around and delete the contents. But your suggestions make me think of these solar powered lights we have in parks near my house. Perhaps I should break in and install a simple package with wifi gear. It could go for years before somebody removes it.
If you need to reach into a rack or whatnot then a long cable from your laptop should do the trick. For me the advantage of an iphone adapter is that you can reuse a device you will definitely have on you rather than having to carry the laptop everywhere.
This should work okay on my openmoko. It has a usb host mode and I have a usb-serial cable which I have used with a laptop as a console device.
I wonder if the number of people buying the dead tree version of the paper had increased? If you can't get it on line one option might be to buy one off a news stand, and that would not be included in the subscription numbers.
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It could be a nationalistic type thing. They look down on westerners and don't take non-chinese content seriously.