There is a possibility that parent probably doesn't expect to be modded funny. I used to consider glueing all USB port when I still used windows since I couldn't find a way to disable access to usb flash at that time.
umm.. I believe friendster in Indonesia make lots of money, especially from cellphone providers ad, which naturally benefit from any kind of social network to gather more subscribers, because intra-provider call is very cheap. One provider actually only charge 0.01 cents per each call. You read that right. It's in decimals, it's in cent, and it's per call initiated.
I, and many people I know, can text message using one hand without seeing the phone at all while driving. The distraction is far far less. People should learn to do that if they really really have to text.
The country list of a notable global US corporation, includes Israel but exclude Palestine. Hell, they even include "controversial" country such as taiwan, considering hongkong as one of a country (this is on 2007), includes country like Western Sahara, etc.
They finally change it after I notify them of the omission. But to these days, I still can't rule out the possibility that the omission was intentional. I mean, if someone in the corporation is obsessed enough to compile a list of all countries, even the ones barely qualified as country, how can (s)he forget to include palestine?
I live in a tropical country. Despite of having so many ants almost everywhere, I only encountered one incident of ants shorting my printer, and that's probably due to crumbs from user eating food near printers. By default, I don't think ants have much incentive to walk to a printer or computer..
It reminds me to academic advisors of the undergraduate CS department of a certain US public university. The least well-rounded advisor must be at least 250 pounds..
I used to read his blog http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/ . I stop reading when the feed to his blog is restricted to be the first few paragraphs only. Even when he now unrestrict it again, I'm still not his regular reader anymore.
I don't think that was intended to be marketing deception.
The article probably combine the number of mosque and member of the 2 largest Islamic organization in Indonesia: Nadhlatul Ulama (the progressive moderate Islamic organization. mentioned in TFA) and Muhammadiyah (the not so progressive moderate Islamic organization). Both have member base of around 60 millions people (NU: 40m and M: 20m). They probably control 400,000 mosques in total.
US$200 is probably for big city in multinational companies doing low-skilled work. Ever since 1997 crisis, average income is around US$100/month. Median salary is way below that, I say around US$60/month. Internet will be the last thing on their mind.
The risk of fire in incandescent lamp is pretty negligible because when short circuit or fire happens, fuse will automatically disconnect the electricity. Flourescent lamp (and I believe this new lamp) is dangerous not because of the lamp itself, but because of the enclosing circuits. The sparks caused under certain circumstances, is not detectable by fuse.
the cheapest crap DVD players from China will play anything vaguely resembling an optical disc with files vaguely resembling a standard published somewhere just fine, but expensive high-end players even choke on discs they're SUPPOSED to be able to play.
amen to that. I notice that the DVD player from china can recover and tolerate extremely unreadable surface gracefully. Is there any awesome technology behind it or it's just that chinese DVD player demand format standard less strictly than others?
> Why would you want to store a scientist in a database?
So that these geeks can have normal relationships. But they probably won't perform as well as before normalization. After all. there will be performance hit in joining tables.
I used to have many of those in my work place. Besides being dust and spill resistant, one thing worth to mention is that thing can resist paper staple! Basically for all office that receive many stapled documentation where the user must disattached all those staples manually, the staples won't be thrown into the bottom of keyboard buttons!
Too bad the keyboard's button is rather difficult to press since you have to hit it rather precisely from top straight to bottom.. The productivity hit of using this difficult to press keyboard is larger than the pain of having to clean up a normal keyboard from dust/spill/paper-staple, that this keyboard is eventually not used anymore.
Except everyone took the opportunity to sneak in front of me so they could play a game of changing lanes repeatedly to snake their way through traffic faster.
Well, the same moron who sneak in front of you is usually the same moron who quickly disappear from your front, so the bad impact of that moron on you become less. Anyway, the key is too keep closer distance so that only the bravest moron will cut you, while keeping it farther enough to allow smooth breaking.
If I were the sex offender, I will follow my doppelganger to whereever he lives. I will dress the same way, grow the same mustache/beard/hairstyle and wear the same glasses. I will even try to speak/walk/move the same way. This way, I will reduce my chance of being killed to 50%.
Joking aside, I find this whole obsession to sex offender disturbing. But I'll let others argue about that.
I'll be 42 in December. After having my mind polluted by Sesame Street as a youngster I started to gobble down cookies, hid in garbage cans and dreamt of living with a male life-partner when older.
Sadly, my life went to shit and I'm none of those things. I don't like cookies, dislike taking out the trash and live with a WOMAN and our child. Ick! You're just a random exception.
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There is a possibility that parent probably doesn't expect to be modded funny. I used to consider glueing all USB port when I still used windows since I couldn't find a way to disable access to usb flash at that time.
umm.. I believe friendster in Indonesia make lots of money, especially from cellphone providers ad, which naturally benefit from any kind of social network to gather more subscribers, because intra-provider call is very cheap. One provider actually only charge 0.01 cents per each call. You read that right. It's in decimals, it's in cent, and it's per call initiated.
They could design a whole new OS from the ground up,
That would be very ironic. Remind me to lotus 1-2-3.
What else can the reason for upload cap need :-).
I, and many people I know, can text message using one hand without seeing the phone at all while driving. The distraction is far far less. People should learn to do that if they really really have to text.
Thanks all,
Given their average response time, I'd say that their rectification is very quick. So you're likely to be right.
The country list of a notable global US corporation, includes Israel but exclude Palestine. Hell, they even include "controversial" country such as taiwan, considering hongkong as one of a country (this is on 2007), includes country like Western Sahara, etc.
They finally change it after I notify them of the omission. But to these days, I still can't rule out the possibility that the omission was intentional. I mean, if someone in the corporation is obsessed enough to compile a list of all countries, even the ones barely qualified as country, how can (s)he forget to include palestine?
I live in a tropical country. Despite of having so many ants almost everywhere, I only encountered one incident of ants shorting my printer, and that's probably due to crumbs from user eating food near printers. By default, I don't think ants have much incentive to walk to a printer or computer..
is definitely something you haven't experienced..
A dollar an hour, 24 dollars a day, 720 dollars a month.
It reminds me to academic advisors of the undergraduate CS department of a certain US public university. The least well-rounded advisor must be at least 250 pounds..
I used to read his blog http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/ . I stop reading when the feed to his blog is restricted to be the first few paragraphs only. Even when he now unrestrict it again, I'm still not his regular reader anymore.
I don't think that was intended to be marketing deception.
The article probably combine the number of mosque and member of the 2 largest Islamic organization in Indonesia: Nadhlatul Ulama (the progressive moderate Islamic organization. mentioned in TFA) and Muhammadiyah (the not so progressive moderate Islamic organization). Both have member base of around 60 millions people (NU: 40m and M: 20m). They probably control 400,000 mosques in total.
US$200 is probably for big city in multinational companies doing low-skilled work. Ever since 1997 crisis, average income is around US$100/month. Median salary is way below that, I say around US$60/month. Internet will be the last thing on their mind.
The risk of fire in incandescent lamp is pretty negligible because when short circuit or fire happens, fuse will automatically disconnect the electricity. Flourescent lamp (and I believe this new lamp) is dangerous not because of the lamp itself, but because of the enclosing circuits. The sparks caused under certain circumstances, is not detectable by fuse.
Are you the 7 years old little sister? That's one hell of a social engineering you do on slashdot!
amen to that.
I notice that the DVD player from china can recover and tolerate extremely unreadable surface gracefully. Is there any awesome technology behind it or it's just that chinese DVD player demand format standard less strictly than others?
So that these geeks can have normal relationships. But they probably won't perform as well as before normalization. After all. there will be performance hit in joining tables.
I used to have many of those in my work place. Besides being dust and spill resistant, one thing worth to mention is that thing can resist paper staple! Basically for all office that receive many stapled documentation where the user must disattached all those staples manually, the staples won't be thrown into the bottom of keyboard buttons!
Too bad the keyboard's button is rather difficult to press since you have to hit it rather precisely from top straight to bottom.. The productivity hit of using this difficult to press keyboard is larger than the pain of having to clean up a normal keyboard from dust/spill/paper-staple, that this keyboard is eventually not used anymore.
I thought the purpose of PR is to make company looks good enough as to maximize the ratio between (additionalprofit)/(PRcost)
When the hijacked plane gonna crash again to a government building, is that mean US government won't shoot it down?
Well, the same moron who sneak in front of you is usually the same moron who quickly disappear from your front, so the bad impact of that moron on you become less. Anyway, the key is too keep closer distance so that only the bravest moron will cut you, while keeping it farther enough to allow smooth breaking.
If I were the sex offender, I will follow my doppelganger to whereever he lives. I will dress the same way, grow the same mustache/beard/hairstyle and wear the same glasses. I will even try to speak/walk/move the same way. This way, I will reduce my chance of being killed to 50%.
Joking aside, I find this whole obsession to sex offender disturbing. But I'll let others argue about that.
I was really wondering... do people actually buy item advertised in spam?
By the time such computer exist, Vista's successor will use all of that computing power.