In Fiji they don't do self-service - someone will come out and fill the car for you. To the point that when someone I know migrated to Australia, although he'd been driving a car (and an 18 tonne sugar cane truck) for 30 years, he didn't actually know how to use a fuel pump.
Slashdot has a readership in excess of 100,000 (which puts it on-par with that of most major newspapers)
I'm not sure what your definition of a major newspaper is, but here in Melbourne (with a population of < 4 million) the two biggest newspapers have a mon-fri readership of 1,338,000 and 685,000 respectively.
What if an artist sold their copyright, knowing there was 20 years left. Suddenly the law is changed and there is 40 years left; shouldn't the copyright revert back to the original artist after the initial copyright expired, so that they can renegotiate the sale of the remaining 20 years if they wish?
The studies I've read about show that frequent SMS use improves literacy, because at least the people are engaging in some form of written communication, albeit a horrendously disfigured one!
Due to the expansion of the universe, the center of the universe is also getting bigger. This means that bits of it sometimes squeeze out through the smaller dimensions in unlikely places, much like Vegemite through a Sao biscuit.
The Solar System is a specific place and not just the star system you happen to be in (well it does happen to be the one you are in right now, but assuming you managed to get to different one...).
You Earthlings are so Earth-centric. Everyone knows my solar system is closer to the center of the universe!
I was born in Australia and have lived here all my life. I have never seen anyone here celebrate Guy Fawkes day, and I would be surprised if many people knew what date it was. What little I know about it I learned in my history class in high school, and from reading Famous Five books when I was a small child. The date is of no significance to Australian culture.
It's obviously a clever ploy on Cooley's part. When they lose the lawsuit, they can say that it was because the lawyers they hired from other schools were not good enough. They can then postulate how well they would have won had they hired Cooley grads.
A credit card is a tool like anything else. Used well, it can improve your financial position. I use a credit card for all of my day-to-day purchases, but I don't spend more than I can afford. Then on a weekly or fortnightly basis I pay off what I owe.
This allows me to keep my money earning interest in a savings account for the maximum amount of time, instead of leaving it to sit idle in a day-to-day use account just in case I will need it.
My credit card has no annual fee, and an interest-free period. I don't know what the interest rate is, because I've always paid off before the interest-free period ends.
I thought the term came from the Cold War. First world was the US and its allies, second world was the Soviet Union, China and their allies, and third world were all of the neutral, non-aligned countries. By coincidence, the third world countries also had a tendency to be poorer countries, so the term third world became associated with poverty. Source: Wikipedia.
The other thing I dislike about the self-checkouts is that if you pay by credit card + signature, it requires a human to come and verify your signature, swipe their access card, enter their pin, then approve it. So I lose time trying to get their attention then waiting for them to do all that.
I also dislike the idea of doing the store's work for them and still paying the same amount. If they charged less for the self service checkout I would use it.
More than that, there's saliva and hormones involved. Part of why humans kiss is to transfer those fluids. Otherwise, why bother with open mouth kisses? Considering how many things can be transferred like that I doubt we'd be doing it if there wasn't a reason. I mean most other animals don't kiss.
My wife and I save considerable time by just spitting into each other's mouths every once in a while.
I beg to differ about driving. I am currently teaching an adult to drive, and it will definitely take more than a week. When you drive you are doing about 20 different things at once and it takes a reasonable amount of practice until you can do enough of them autonomously to drive safely. For example when she is changing gears she frequently veers off course because she is focusing on the gearstick and not the steering. She can shift the gearstick to any position when stationary, but when driving she keeps changing from 2nd to 1st instead of to 3rd because she can't concentrate on the gearstick enough to put it in the right position while driving. My first ironic capcha: "safely"
I see a lot of that on this site actually (presumably mostly from North Americans): the inability to figure out the likely meaning of a word from context. They all seem to take everything so... literally. There's a huge amount of American slang and expressions too that aren't used outside America, but the meaning of them is still usually obvious to an outsider.
I bought a dvd burner a few years back. It has bugs. If you are recording a program to DVD, and watching a different program off the DVD, it is wise to avoid fast-forwarding because the unit is liable to freeze. The only way to unfreeze it is to unplug it and plug it back in again. Also, the clock loses about 5 minutes per month. What the heck is with that? It's surely not that expensive to build a reasonably accurate clock! Not only that, the UI is so bad it takes over 20 button presses to navigate to the point where you can change the time settings.
This is exactly why there is a market for people like me, the business analysts. Slashdot's user base seems to be very coder-biased, I don't recall ever hearing of anyone identifying themselves as a business analyst here. But ideally it is the BA's job to liaise with the customer and find out what their requirements are (and what I mean by that is, what they actually need, not what they think they need), and then translate that into a requirements document that the developers can use to build the system. The requirements document then feeds into the functional testing, and user acceptance testing. The devs should also create a techncial spec, which describes how the system meets the requirements, and feeds into the unit and integration testing. In my experience BAs often have some level of involvement in the testing too, though ideally you would hire professional testers for that.
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In Fiji they don't do self-service - someone will come out and fill the car for you. To the point that when someone I know migrated to Australia, although he'd been driving a car (and an 18 tonne sugar cane truck) for 30 years, he didn't actually know how to use a fuel pump.
In Australia they are called "Chinese burns".
Wikipedia disagrees with you :)
Slashdot has a readership in excess of 100,000 (which puts it on-par with that of most major newspapers)
I'm not sure what your definition of a major newspaper is, but here in Melbourne (with a population of < 4 million) the two biggest newspapers have a mon-fri readership of 1,338,000 and 685,000 respectively.
What if an artist sold their copyright, knowing there was 20 years left. Suddenly the law is changed and there is 40 years left; shouldn't the copyright revert back to the original artist after the initial copyright expired, so that they can renegotiate the sale of the remaining 20 years if they wish?
The studies I've read about show that frequent SMS use improves literacy, because at least the people are engaging in some form of written communication, albeit a horrendously disfigured one!
Due to the expansion of the universe, the center of the universe is also getting bigger. This means that bits of it sometimes squeeze out through the smaller dimensions in unlikely places, much like Vegemite through a Sao biscuit.
Nope.
The Solar System is a specific place and not just the star system you happen to be in (well it does happen to be the one you are in right now, but assuming you managed to get to different one...).
You Earthlings are so Earth-centric. Everyone knows my solar system is closer to the center of the universe!
They aren't exoplanets, and hence not a precedent.
Depends on your reference frame!
Surely you can't be serious!
I was born in Australia and have lived here all my life. I have never seen anyone here celebrate Guy Fawkes day, and I would be surprised if many people knew what date it was. What little I know about it I learned in my history class in high school, and from reading Famous Five books when I was a small child. The date is of no significance to Australian culture.
It's obviously a clever ploy on Cooley's part. When they lose the lawsuit, they can say that it was because the lawyers they hired from other schools were not good enough. They can then postulate how well they would have won had they hired Cooley grads.
A credit card is a tool like anything else. Used well, it can improve your financial position. I use a credit card for all of my day-to-day purchases, but I don't spend more than I can afford. Then on a weekly or fortnightly basis I pay off what I owe.
This allows me to keep my money earning interest in a savings account for the maximum amount of time, instead of leaving it to sit idle in a day-to-day use account just in case I will need it.
My credit card has no annual fee, and an interest-free period. I don't know what the interest rate is, because I've always paid off before the interest-free period ends.
I sometimes play a ukulele while waiting at red lights, but I would never try and do it while the car was moving.
I thought the term came from the Cold War. First world was the US and its allies, second world was the Soviet Union, China and their allies, and third world were all of the neutral, non-aligned countries. By coincidence, the third world countries also had a tendency to be poorer countries, so the term third world became associated with poverty. Source: Wikipedia.
The other thing I dislike about the self-checkouts is that if you pay by credit card + signature, it requires a human to come and verify your signature, swipe their access card, enter their pin, then approve it. So I lose time trying to get their attention then waiting for them to do all that.
I also dislike the idea of doing the store's work for them and still paying the same amount. If they charged less for the self service checkout I would use it.
More than that, there's saliva and hormones involved. Part of why humans kiss is to transfer those fluids. Otherwise, why bother with open mouth kisses? Considering how many things can be transferred like that I doubt we'd be doing it if there wasn't a reason. I mean most other animals don't kiss.
My wife and I save considerable time by just spitting into each other's mouths every once in a while.
I beg to differ about driving. I am currently teaching an adult to drive, and it will definitely take more than a week. When you drive you are doing about 20 different things at once and it takes a reasonable amount of practice until you can do enough of them autonomously to drive safely. For example when she is changing gears she frequently veers off course because she is focusing on the gearstick and not the steering. She can shift the gearstick to any position when stationary, but when driving she keeps changing from 2nd to 1st instead of to 3rd because she can't concentrate on the gearstick enough to put it in the right position while driving.
My first ironic capcha: "safely"
You'll never observe light that is traveling away from you.
Sometimes you can, if you squint really hard.
The moon is kind of warm inside, but you'd probably call it selenothermal power if you could harness it :P
I see a lot of that on this site actually (presumably mostly from North Americans): the inability to figure out the likely meaning of a word from context. They all seem to take everything so ... literally. There's a huge amount of American slang and expressions too that aren't used outside America, but the meaning of them is still usually obvious to an outsider.
Surely you can't be serious?
I bought a dvd burner a few years back. It has bugs. If you are recording a program to DVD, and watching a different program off the DVD, it is wise to avoid fast-forwarding because the unit is liable to freeze. The only way to unfreeze it is to unplug it and plug it back in again. Also, the clock loses about 5 minutes per month. What the heck is with that? It's surely not that expensive to build a reasonably accurate clock! Not only that, the UI is so bad it takes over 20 button presses to navigate to the point where you can change the time settings.
This is exactly why there is a market for people like me, the business analysts. Slashdot's user base seems to be very coder-biased, I don't recall ever hearing of anyone identifying themselves as a business analyst here. But ideally it is the BA's job to liaise with the customer and find out what their requirements are (and what I mean by that is, what they actually need, not what they think they need), and then translate that into a requirements document that the developers can use to build the system. The requirements document then feeds into the functional testing, and user acceptance testing. The devs should also create a techncial spec, which describes how the system meets the requirements, and feeds into the unit and integration testing. In my experience BAs often have some level of involvement in the testing too, though ideally you would hire professional testers for that.
Hey, you copied my sig!
Somehow N. Korea got nuclear weapons before they invented the Internet (let alone the wheel)...HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?
The USA developed working nuclear weapons long before anybody invented the internet either...