Looks like he went Tampa to London via Houston (used to be Intercontinental) and then mysteriously flew from Charles DeGaulle in Paris back to Tampa via Newark. (Hmmmmmm.. what of the missing segment? Hmm? Hmm?!!!)
They have these crazy things in Europe called "trains" that connect city centres without having to hang around in an unfashionable suburb for a few hours waiting to be put into a metal tube. You don't even have to take your shoes off to get on them.
The Monster Raving Loony Party is suffering yet another attempt to split its core vote!
Recent attacks on it have of course included the Labour party's expensive and worthless ID Card scheme, whereas the Conservatives have embraced Loonyism with a suggestion to send all UK health records to Microsoft.
This isn't the first time a northern route was used.
The Vikings, prior to the ~1250 onset of global cooling, routinely used a northern route to reach Siberia and sometimes even China during the 900s, 1000s, and 1100s.
You're going to have to provide some sort of citation for that, I'm afraid. Better, that is, than this one:
But that's no different to proving that you can do a job better than the next person at interview.
Ten years there were managers who thought that outsourcing was a quick way of saving cash with no drawbacks. They were wrong, and some of them are probably now asking "if you'd like fries with that" because they weren't good enough at THEIR jobs.
If 100% of what you do can be done remotely, then there is nothing stopping your employer from outsourcing your job to a cheaper worker in India
There is one thing - if you do a better job than someone cheaper working in India/Ireland/wherever and provide overall better value for money, you probably won't get outsourced.
I've used bbTracker on a Blackberry quite happily. It won't replace your Garmin though - there's no software that you can install that will make a phone waterproof!
It's already been mentioned that it is possible to see Openstreetmap maps on Garmin devices, but phones can use OSM data too - I use Mgmaps (on a Blackberry, but it runs on others too):
It's not as fast to display as Google Maps, but (where I live) is substantially better quality data than either Google or the maps that Garmin sell.
Having said that, I still have a Garmin Etrex series GPS (with OSM data on it) which I use for hiking - it'll run for ever on 2 rechargeable AA batteries every couple of days and is waterproof, which phones aren't.
So repeat after me: GPS is still GPS, even though it's in my phone.
It is, but the selection criteria for a GPS chip (and associated GPS software) for a phone GPS are different to a standalone one. There are some damn-awful phone GPSs, where it looks like the manufacturer has spent the minimum possible to be able to write "GPS" on the side of the box. I've never used one myself, but the Nokia N95 has/had a bit of a dodgy reputation:
you would save the cost of the fridge within two years on reduced energy bills, and probably inside one year.
I've heard this sort of thing a lot, and would love to see a worked example that justified it...
Surely it would depend on where you live. Your fridge is heating the house as well as keeping your beer cold, so in the UK for most of the year the running cost of the fridge (since all the energy it uses winds up as heat eventually) is just the difference between the cost of electricity and the cost of gas (or whatever you use to heat your house).
I've signed up for the Telephone Preference Service - but still get junk calls from overseas telemarketing: anybody know how to get rid of them?
There's nothing legally that you can do if the call originates overseas. If you try to report it to the Information Commissioner's Office you'll get a polite message saying something like "don't waste your time; we can't touch them".
Going ex-directory won't fix everything either. I have two phone lines, one in the directory and one not. Both get a similar number of junk calls from overseas. I suspect that they're just war-dialling for a human.
What you can do is screen calls. For a start, if you haven't got caller display enabled on the line then get BT to turn it on (free, although they'll try and get you to sign up to non-free stuff at the same time, which you don't have to) and get a caller display phone if you haven't already. Obviously if you need to answer calls from non-disclosed numbers this isn't going to help...
BT do have a non-free "block all hidden calls" option. I'm not sure if you can get it for free by playing the "nuisance calls" card - I certainly haven't tried. I've seen people suggest using Asterisk to do the same thing.
In the short term if you accept that you can't prevent calls then the best thing to minimise them would be to answer and when the muppet at the other end starts the sales script say "No Thnak You" and hang up. That way at least you won't get repeat calls "waiting for you to be in".
I've heard people suggest that at this point what you should do is be as rude as possible to the caller - to try and make their job as unpleasant as possible and hopefully increase the wage bill of their employer because no-one wants to do it. I'm not convinced though - you'd have to be fairly thick-skinned or desperate to do the job in the first place so being told to FRO every now and again isn't going to have much effect.
Likewise staying on the line and wasting their time only makes sense if your time is less valuable than theirs.
In the longer term it might make sense to try and hold the guys who resell calls into the UK responsible for the people who the sell to. I can't believe that, for example, a guy in Pakistan who calls to "say that I've won a holiday in Florida" is originating his calls via POTS in Pakistan (or even in Florida). Surely they're buying a bundle of UK-originated calls from a provider here and calling into the UK via VoIP. Good luck with that though.
They will inflate their way out, like every other time they got into trouble
Which is where he was going with "the eventual realization of the cost of printing money" if I'm not mistaken. So, er, you're both right. And I'd replace "land and gold" with "any commodity with relatively fixed rate of supply" (and add "in the long term" because short-term demand changes can make a fixed supply commodity appear more or less valuable relative to whatever random thing you're measuring it against).
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Looks like he went Tampa to London via Houston (used to be Intercontinental) and then mysteriously flew from Charles DeGaulle in Paris back to Tampa via Newark. (Hmmmmmm.. what of the missing segment? Hmm? Hmm?!!!)
They have these crazy things in Europe called "trains" that connect city centres without having to hang around in an unfashionable suburb for a few hours waiting to be put into a metal tube. You don't even have to take your shoes off to get on them.
Lukket's Fark photoshop has had as many comebacks as Peter Mandelson!
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp
The Monster Raving Loony Party is suffering yet another attempt to split its core vote!
Recent attacks on it have of course included the Labour party's expensive and worthless ID Card scheme, whereas the Conservatives have embraced Loonyism with a suggestion to send all UK health records to Microsoft.
It won't search Google on a non-existant domain.
Yes it will (at least here). I've no idea what you're doing that's different.
This isn't news.
This isn't the first time a northern route was used.
The Vikings, prior to the ~1250 onset of global cooling, routinely used a northern route to reach Siberia and sometimes even China during the 900s, 1000s, and 1100s.
You're going to have to provide some sort of citation for that, I'm afraid. Better, that is, than this one:
http://www.smirking.com/cms/gallery/signs/scadinavian.jpg.html
But that's no different to proving that you can do a job better than the next person at interview.
Ten years there were managers who thought that outsourcing was a quick way of saving cash with no drawbacks. They were wrong, and some of them are probably now asking "if you'd like fries with that" because they weren't good enough at THEIR jobs.
If 100% of what you do can be done remotely, then there is nothing stopping your employer from outsourcing your job to a cheaper worker in India
There is one thing - if you do a better job than someone cheaper working in India/Ireland/wherever and provide overall better value for money, you probably won't get outsourced.
It would easily be found be searching the nearest pub car park for USB keys, or checking the train that the relevant civil servant travelled home on.
... To do that with the blackberry I'd have to buy special software, and also buy a subscription to it.
Well, not as such:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software/Mobilephones
I've used bbTracker on a Blackberry quite happily. It won't replace your Garmin though - there's no software that you can install that will make a phone waterproof!
It's already been mentioned that it is possible to see Openstreetmap maps on Garmin devices, but phones can use OSM data too - I use Mgmaps (on a Blackberry, but it runs on others too):
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mgmaps
It's not as fast to display as Google Maps, but (where I live) is substantially better quality data than either Google or the maps that Garmin sell.
Having said that, I still have a Garmin Etrex series GPS (with OSM data on it) which I use for hiking - it'll run for ever on 2 rechargeable AA batteries every couple of days and is waterproof, which phones aren't.
So repeat after me: GPS is still GPS, even though it's in my phone.
It is, but the selection criteria for a GPS chip (and associated GPS software) for a phone GPS are different to a standalone one. There are some damn-awful phone GPSs, where it looks like the manufacturer has spent the minimum possible to be able to write "GPS" on the side of the box. I've never used one myself, but the Nokia N95 has/had a bit of a dodgy reputation:
http://www.mail-archive.com/newbies@openstreetmap.org/msg02209.html
There are also some good ones, such as (in my limited experience) some HTCs and some Blackberries.
Garmin units also support maps created by "mkgmap":
http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/index.html
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mkgmap
This takes openstreetmap data (mentioned elsewhere - actually any data in OSM format would do) and creates a map in a style that you choose.
The latter, actually. The next time I visit a doctor or a hospital I'd want them to have some idea of what's happened before.
He's just demonstrating that it's perfectly possible for a German to have a sense of humour.
Unlike some of the replies...
... but they absolutely stated this Firefox extension was to be installed in the release notes for the patch; http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=CECC62DC-96A7-4657-AF91-6383BA034EAB&displaylang=en
That's the "bucket and shovel" update after the original patch that installed the extension in the first place. The original update is described here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ab99342f-5d1a-413d-8319-81da479ab0d7&displaylang=en
There's no mention of Firefox.
I don't know what that site is doing to test for Flash on the browser, but I don't like its dishonesty.
I'd agree with Bernard Ingham on this one - cockup before conspiracy every time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
Does the tickbox next to "forbid Java (TM)" on the plugins tab in noscript not do anything then?
you would save the cost of the fridge within two years on reduced energy bills, and probably inside one year.
I've heard this sort of thing a lot, and would love to see a worked example that justified it...
Surely it would depend on where you live. Your fridge is heating the house as well as keeping your beer cold, so in the UK for most of the year the running cost of the fridge (since all the energy it uses winds up as heat eventually) is just the difference between the cost of electricity and the cost of gas (or whatever you use to heat your house).
Can we PLEASE put this to rest!?!?!
You guys are using Diesel.
We are not using Diesel.
Maybe you should ask your legislators and oil companies why not?
I've signed up for the Telephone Preference Service - but still get junk calls from overseas telemarketing: anybody know how to get rid of them?
There's nothing legally that you can do if the call originates overseas. If you try to report it to the Information Commissioner's Office you'll get a polite message saying something like "don't waste your time; we can't touch them".
Going ex-directory won't fix everything either. I have two phone lines, one in the directory and one not. Both get a similar number of junk calls from overseas. I suspect that they're just war-dialling for a human.
What you can do is screen calls. For a start, if you haven't got caller display enabled on the line then get BT to turn it on (free, although they'll try and get you to sign up to non-free stuff at the same time, which you don't have to) and get a caller display phone if you haven't already. Obviously if you need to answer calls from non-disclosed numbers this isn't going to help...
BT do have a non-free "block all hidden calls" option. I'm not sure if you can get it for free by playing the "nuisance calls" card - I certainly haven't tried. I've seen people suggest using Asterisk to do the same thing.
In the short term if you accept that you can't prevent calls then the best thing to minimise them would be to answer and when the muppet at the other end starts the sales script say "No Thnak You" and hang up. That way at least you won't get repeat calls "waiting for you to be in".
I've heard people suggest that at this point what you should do is be as rude as possible to the caller - to try and make their job as unpleasant as possible and hopefully increase the wage bill of their employer because no-one wants to do it. I'm not convinced though - you'd have to be fairly thick-skinned or desperate to do the job in the first place so being told to FRO every now and again isn't going to have much effect.
Likewise staying on the line and wasting their time only makes sense if your time is less valuable than theirs.
In the longer term it might make sense to try and hold the guys who resell calls into the UK responsible for the people who the sell to. I can't believe that, for example, a guy in Pakistan who calls to "say that I've won a holiday in Florida" is originating his calls via POTS in Pakistan (or even in Florida). Surely they're buying a bundle of UK-originated calls from a provider here and calling into the UK via VoIP. Good luck with that though.
They will inflate their way out, like every other time they got into trouble
Which is where he was going with "the eventual realization of the cost of printing money" if I'm not mistaken. So, er, you're both right. And I'd replace "land and gold" with "any commodity with relatively fixed rate of supply" (and add "in the long term" because short-term demand changes can make a fixed supply commodity appear more or less valuable relative to whatever random thing you're measuring it against).
Audi A3 Quattro, Audi TT Quattro, VW Golf 4motion, Seat Leon 4, Skoda Felicia 4x4
Yes, I now those are all Haldex systems
They're all essentially the same car (well, ish - same floorpan, variants of 2 engines between them).
You mean like "Today Tatarstan, tomorrow a slightly larger Russian republic in Central Asia"?
I'm not sure what you mean by Facebook and Twitter as "dead man walking."
Give it five years and it'll look as valuable as Myspace does to News International now (or Friends Reunited to ITV).
is sometimes a useful legal precedent.