To further help you out, the arcane (not widely known) acronym (a list of letters where each letter is the first letter of a word in a sentence or part of it) 'HTH' posted (published on an internet forum) by the parent (the author of the post this post is reponding to) means: 'Hope this helps'. Note that the subject of the sentence is implied (the subject 'I' is omitted, but it is supposed that the reader can fill it in for him/herself).
First of all,you need to get from your château in the outskirts of Bordeaux to the gare, then take the TVG to Montparnasse (the TGV takes three hours, not one), then take another metro, RER or combination, maybe followed by a bus to get to your final destination. It all adds up to 5 hours or more.
So unless you're living in Bordeaux close to the station, your office is in the Tour Montparnasse, and you're willing to waste 6 hours of your time, that trip is simply not feasibly as a daily commute.
Remember: public transportation typically goes from a spot where you aren't to a spot where you don't need to be, unless you go multimodal and are willing lose a lot of time.
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... but I'm not too impressed. Google profits from the ease of separating advertisers from their money, not from the relatively meager output of their 20000 employees.
For each and every thing Google offers, decent alternatives exist. Even if Google search would disappear, the void would be filled quickly. The same second source effect applies a fortiori to their shady advertisement business, Gmail and the hodgepodge of unrelated, discretionary, copycat and so-so bits and pieces.
So I wouldn't be surprised if Google would become irrelevant in the next decennium.
I agree. Given the sheer amount of cell phones and airtime, people would be dropping like flies in the streets were there any *significant* risks.
I said the same thing shortly after the CJD/Sars/H5N scares when it became clear to me that the epidemic would be anything but. If you don't see dramatic effects after a short while, you can be pretty certain there won't be any.
Of course, these kind of worries suit the safety-obese populace just fine.
Your post pulled me over the edge to act instead of silently lament. It took all of one minute to report a correction to TeleAtlas; Navteq was already correct.
A somewhat related issue: my mother in law seems to think that an accelerator is a binary switch, so she uses a rudimentary form of PWM to control (if you can call it that) her speed (if you can call it that).
I think the nervous brakers operate brake and accelerator together as a single ternary digit.
I agree. The FX is undeniably the best trackball ever produced. I have a Logitech wireless that's close but no cigar - the ergonomics are not so good. I don't know why Logitech has abandoned the design.
The red button is set up as middle button/autoscroll (great for browsing) and the top as double-click or draglock.
The only thing that's difficult is right-dragging.
I'm hoarding them too (5 left). I've lost some when one of the 3 plastic cylinders holding the small metal balls supporting the trackball broke.
If the phrase "You will have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands" is ever applicable, it's here.
Qualifiers are a typical part of American culture. Everywhere you go you see things advertised as the biggest, largest, heaviest,... but with enough qualifying adverbs and adjectives tagged on to make the substantive sink in a sea of mercury.
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I got my first LEDs from Radio Shack. The packaging specified 1.5V forward voltage, so I figured an AAA cell would be fine. Not.
While Proust recalled his childhood through the taste of madeleines, a true geek gets zapped back by the smell of smoking epoxy.
To further help you out, the arcane (not widely known) acronym (a list of letters where each letter is the first letter of a word in a sentence or part of it) 'HTH' posted (published on an internet forum) by the parent (the author of the post this post is reponding to) means: 'Hope this helps'. Note that the subject of the sentence is implied (the subject 'I' is omitted, but it is supposed that the reader can fill it in for him/herself).
HTH.
The physics of batteries and electric motors are such that a decent range automatically implies high performance.
Just on the Périf, nowhere else.
Bullshit.
First of all,you need to get from your château in the outskirts of Bordeaux to the gare, then take the TVG to Montparnasse (the TGV takes three hours, not one), then take another metro, RER or combination, maybe followed by a bus to get to your final destination. It all adds up to 5 hours or more.
So unless you're living in Bordeaux close to the station, your office is in the Tour Montparnasse, and you're willing to waste 6 hours of your time, that trip is simply not feasibly as a daily commute.
Remember: public transportation typically goes from a spot where you aren't to a spot where you don't need to be, unless you go multimodal and are willing lose a lot of time.
... but I'm not too impressed. Google profits from the ease of separating advertisers from their money, not from the relatively meager output of their 20000 employees.
For each and every thing Google offers, decent alternatives exist. Even if Google search would disappear, the void would be filled quickly. The same second source effect applies a fortiori to their shady advertisement business, Gmail and the hodgepodge of unrelated, discretionary, copycat and so-so bits and pieces.
So I wouldn't be surprised if Google would become irrelevant in the next decennium.
May I suggest you spend some of your time learning how to type typoless ?
Given the current rate of inflation, who else did read that as $20 billion ?
17 EUR/hour ? Network operators sure ain't gonna put a pro on the job for that rate.
Like that experts-exchange site (SWF) that often sits in the top Google results.
And then, there's me.
In corrupt Alaska bears get YOU goodies !
These guys should work on their understanding of SI prefixes before being allowed to play with the cool stuff !
I said the same thing shortly after the CJD/Sars/H5N scares when it became clear to me that the epidemic would be anything but. If you don't see dramatic effects after a short while, you can be pretty certain there won't be any.
Of course, these kind of worries suit the safety-obese populace just fine.
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(Association invoked by your use of the word "shrubbery".)
Thanks !
Your post pulled me over the edge to act instead of silently lament. It took all of one minute to report a correction to TeleAtlas; Navteq was already correct.
Donandum.
You want the gerundivum, not the participium.
Speaking of tumors...
A somewhat related issue: my mother in law seems to think that an accelerator is a binary switch, so she uses a rudimentary form of PWM to control (if you can call it that) her speed (if you can call it that).
I think the nervous brakers operate brake and accelerator together as a single ternary digit.
Try Cote d'Or. That's real chocolate, not cocoa powder mixed with low-fat milk powder and cheap fats.
You might try to fight my son and his Trackman FX. His aiming speed and precision are uncanny. No way he wants to switch to a classic mouse.
I agree. The FX is undeniably the best trackball ever produced. I have a Logitech wireless that's close but no cigar - the ergonomics are not so good. I don't know why Logitech has abandoned the design.
The red button is set up as middle button/autoscroll (great for browsing) and the top as double-click or draglock.
The only thing that's difficult is right-dragging.
I'm hoarding them too (5 left). I've lost some when one of the 3 plastic cylinders holding the small metal balls supporting the trackball broke.
If the phrase "You will have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands" is ever applicable, it's here.
Ah, the qualifiers.
... but with enough qualifying adverbs and adjectives tagged on to make the substantive sink in a sea of mercury.
Qualifiers are a typical part of American culture. Everywhere you go you see things advertised as the biggest, largest, heaviest,
They're never really lying, but always boasting.
Then it becomes 5, Finally.
And if they would be CEOs they would be absof*ckingly rich.