Many private hotels and motels will accept less than their published rates, and lower than the Travelocity/Expedia/Hotels.com rates if you're willing to pay cash.
Had this experience recently. I found a hotel on TripAdviser but had a question about parking. I phoned the hotel for clarification, and after answering this they offered me 10% under the published rate if I booked directly with them!
They'd be better off keeping summer time all year long. In non agricultural societies more light in the evening is more valuable than light before you get up.
They'll be half that size in a couple years. And then half as small again a few years after that. Why fight a battle you already know you're going to lose?
At that rate after 30 years they will be subatomic (assuming current size 5cm and atom size.1 nm)
He'd try the first drawer.
It it opens then it would be fine
If it doesn't open then that must mean that it's locked which is also fine
And there's no point in trying the other drawers as they are exact copies if the first one.
Only 200 news feeds, that's less then the average shot of a kitten falling off a sofa or a half-decent restaurant meal. Really if that's all they managed they aren't very good hackers, the effect would have been almost non-existent.
I'll second that. There are many natural phenomena that look really strange. I once saw a UFO which I then identified, but if I had not been carrying powerful binoculars I would have remained extremely weirded-out. I was with a group of people and we all saw a saucer like object in the sky, which kept fading in and out, pulsing from a solid grey form to near invisibility.
All of us were amazed and we had no idea what it could be. Was this some alien technology? A cloaking device malfunctioning? As soon as I got my binoculars out the cause was revealed. It was a lens-shaped flock of birds, all turning in synchronisation. When they were head-on they were almost invisible, but as they turned they banked showing a full profile. I still can't explain this weird behaviour, but at least the UFO is now identified as a flock of birds.
Time and again, it's the sunk cost fallacy. A system that an organization might have spent a few million dollars to build is just not shaping up into anything they can use, but they keep at it rather than ditching it and seeing what they can do to change things.
I'll second that. I have worked on a project where literally everyone knew that we were not going to deliver. We had bought a package that did not do what we wanted - not even close. Within the first week of the project we were saying "get something else, this was a purchasing mistake, or let us develop something". After a meeting with the manager and supplier, it was agreed that the supplier would customise the package - which was a surprise as this was almost to the extent of customising a toaster into a dishwasher.
After a month it became clear that the company could not possibly do this. They were incompetent to a degree which beggars belief. just to give an example we had a requirement to terminate a machine name (used for auditing) at 25 characters or the first "dot" character, and we were told that "this is not possible in Java"!. At that time I had a chat with someone I knew who was an ex-employee of the company, and he told me that the company had not developed the product but purchased a startup, then giving the employees the option of being made redundant or moving from one side of the USA to the other. They lost all the development staff and at the time this guy worked for them nobody understood the product.
You would think it would end there, but no. Having reported to the PMs that this package was not fit for purpose and could not change a project was set up to custom-write the required functionality in our core system and transfer data, keeping it synchronised. I pointed out that this was more work than writing the whole lot and would be less reliable than a rewrite (one source of truth rather than two databases to synchronise), and much more supportable. I was told that it was "very political" because the CEO had recommended this package so we had to get it working.
The original estimate of the time to implement the package was six months. Two years later it was clear that we were getting nowhere. The APIs of the package did not work as described, and the database format description was incomplete - often after loading data as described we would get strange errors. Sometimes integrity constraints would tell us that we couldn't load the data. The supplier would sometimes say "Oh you need to change that too", but more worryingly they'd often say "drop that constraint, we don't think it matters in your case". We pointed out that the more we did the more issues we discovered, we seemed to constantly have an estimate of three to six months work to do. At that time a company magazine came out saying how well the project was going!
After another six months we were still getting nowhere. We were finding so many "random" issues with the package after all the dropped constraints and imported data that we became more worried that the project might go live than that we would never complete it. On several occasions the only solution to issues we were given was "restore to last week, something went wrong with the data since then".One of the project managers resigned and evidently broke ranks with the others and told the CEO that we had lost control of this project and it would probably never be complete and if it did it would probably fail and lead to permanent data loss.
The company went into face-saving mode. The project was "put on hold, while a custom package would be developed for now" due to "unforeseen circumstances". Speaking to long-timers at the company there are two other projects that had been "put on hold" in this way, and it was common knowledge that the custom package would turn out to be the long term solution.
A company that I worked for outsourced the desktop to a company with low support/maintenance fees but high charges for changes or deployment of new software. This was done by a new IT manager without consultation of all departments, seemingly based on "My desktop changes a couple of times a year". Many teams needed regular updates, for example a web testing team upgraded several browsers monthly, developers had to apply security patches to local web servers to match production, etc. At the end of a year an analysis shown that the company was paying three times as much, with the turnaround time for changes and issues going from three days to ten days.
This could be reasonable, but only if there is an API to allow plugins to scan downloadable content. Forcing the use of an API rather than injecting code would be safer, allow Chrome to monitor software causing delays, and make the system more stable. Does anyone know if this is possible via official APIs?
There is always "that guy" who needs to drive 300 miles in a day regularly. 305 miles is at least a five hour drive. Do you do that 20% of the time? If so, you need to find a new job because you are wasting your life away in a car.
I did know someone who did this sort of mileage. he was a courier. 99.99% of people don't!
Seeing Islam as something harmless and exotic, like Sinbad, Aladin and Ali Baba. The idea that it would be killing people in the west for drawing cartoons would have been laughed at
Steam trains in Paddington Station. And a booth on the platform where you could "make a record", talk for three minutes then a disk would come out. When I tell young people about this they assume it was in Queen Victoria's realm (do I really look that old?), but it was actually in the 1960s
"Isn't VAT charged in the member state where the retailer is based, irrespective of where the buyer is, assuming the goods are being shipped inside the EU."
No that has changed a couple of years ago. Now it's the buyer's country that is relevant.
But only if the sales in the other country exceed the VAT threshold (min 35,000 euros). At this amount they can probably afford to register for VAT in that country. Another option is to use an already VAT registered agent in the country.
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Many private hotels and motels will accept less than their published rates, and lower than the Travelocity/Expedia/Hotels.com rates if you're willing to pay cash.
Had this experience recently. I found a hotel on TripAdviser but had a question about parking. I phoned the hotel for clarification, and after answering this they offered me 10% under the published rate if I booked directly with them!
They'd be better off keeping summer time all year long. In non agricultural societies more light in the evening is more valuable than light before you get up.
They'll be half that size in a couple years. And then half as small again a few years after that. Why fight a battle you already know you're going to lose?
At that rate after 30 years they will be subatomic (assuming current size 5cm and atom size .1 nm)
How would a developer test a chest of drawers?
He'd try the first drawer.
It it opens then it would be fine
If it doesn't open then that must mean that it's locked which is also fine
And there's no point in trying the other drawers as they are exact copies if the first one.
"Oh! What A Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice To Deceive"
simply fuelled by the stupid.
We certainly have enough of those in the UK.
Only 200 news feeds, that's less then the average shot of a kitten falling off a sofa or a half-decent restaurant meal. Really if that's all they managed they aren't very good hackers, the effect would have been almost non-existent.
I'll second that. There are many natural phenomena that look really strange. I once saw a UFO which I then identified, but if I had not been carrying powerful binoculars I would have remained extremely weirded-out. I was with a group of people and we all saw a saucer like object in the sky, which kept fading in and out, pulsing from a solid grey form to near invisibility.
All of us were amazed and we had no idea what it could be. Was this some alien technology? A cloaking device malfunctioning? As soon as I got my binoculars out the cause was revealed. It was a lens-shaped flock of birds, all turning in synchronisation. When they were head-on they were almost invisible, but as they turned they banked showing a full profile. I still can't explain this weird behaviour, but at least the UFO is now identified as a flock of birds.
Time and again, it's the sunk cost fallacy. A system that an organization might have spent a few million dollars to build is just not shaping up into anything they can use, but they keep at it rather than ditching it and seeing what they can do to change things.
I'll second that. I have worked on a project where literally everyone knew that we were not going to deliver. We had bought a package that did not do what we wanted - not even close. Within the first week of the project we were saying "get something else, this was a purchasing mistake, or let us develop something". After a meeting with the manager and supplier, it was agreed that the supplier would customise the package - which was a surprise as this was almost to the extent of customising a toaster into a dishwasher.
After a month it became clear that the company could not possibly do this. They were incompetent to a degree which beggars belief. just to give an example we had a requirement to terminate a machine name (used for auditing) at 25 characters or the first "dot" character, and we were told that "this is not possible in Java"!. At that time I had a chat with someone I knew who was an ex-employee of the company, and he told me that the company had not developed the product but purchased a startup, then giving the employees the option of being made redundant or moving from one side of the USA to the other. They lost all the development staff and at the time this guy worked for them nobody understood the product.
You would think it would end there, but no. Having reported to the PMs that this package was not fit for purpose and could not change a project was set up to custom-write the required functionality in our core system and transfer data, keeping it synchronised. I pointed out that this was more work than writing the whole lot and would be less reliable than a rewrite (one source of truth rather than two databases to synchronise), and much more supportable. I was told that it was "very political" because the CEO had recommended this package so we had to get it working.
The original estimate of the time to implement the package was six months. Two years later it was clear that we were getting nowhere. The APIs of the package did not work as described, and the database format description was incomplete - often after loading data as described we would get strange errors. Sometimes integrity constraints would tell us that we couldn't load the data. The supplier would sometimes say "Oh you need to change that too", but more worryingly they'd often say "drop that constraint, we don't think it matters in your case". We pointed out that the more we did the more issues we discovered, we seemed to constantly have an estimate of three to six months work to do. At that time a company magazine came out saying how well the project was going!
After another six months we were still getting nowhere. We were finding so many "random" issues with the package after all the dropped constraints and imported data that we became more worried that the project might go live than that we would never complete it. On several occasions the only solution to issues we were given was "restore to last week, something went wrong with the data since then".One of the project managers resigned and evidently broke ranks with the others and told the CEO that we had lost control of this project and it would probably never be complete and if it did it would probably fail and lead to permanent data loss.
The company went into face-saving mode. The project was "put on hold, while a custom package would be developed for now" due to "unforeseen circumstances". Speaking to long-timers at the company there are two other projects that had been "put on hold" in this way, and it was common knowledge that the custom package would turn out to be the long term solution.
A company that I worked for outsourced the desktop to a company with low support/maintenance fees but high charges for changes or deployment of new software. This was done by a new IT manager without consultation of all departments, seemingly based on "My desktop changes a couple of times a year". Many teams needed regular updates, for example a web testing team upgraded several browsers monthly, developers had to apply security patches to local web servers to match production, etc. At the end of a year an analysis shown that the company was paying three times as much, with the turnaround time for changes and issues going from three days to ten days.
Betteridge's law of headlines meets slashdot's anti-systemd bias. Could be interesting
Mats Jarlstrom may have won the case, but from now on will be known as "that lying bastard who claims expertise he doesn't have"
This could be reasonable, but only if there is an API to allow plugins to scan downloadable content. Forcing the use of an API rather than injecting code would be safer, allow Chrome to monitor software causing delays, and make the system more stable. Does anyone know if this is possible via official APIs?
There is always "that guy" who needs to drive 300 miles in a day regularly. 305 miles is at least a five hour drive. Do you do that 20% of the time? If so, you need to find a new job because you are wasting your life away in a car.
I did know someone who did this sort of mileage. he was a courier. 99.99% of people don't!
Since a study found that about 90% of the [plastic] debris was microfibers – both in freshwater and the ocean, and these were identified as coming from clothes then perhaps we should ban these too.
2018, Year of the Women
That sounds more fun than the year of the Linux Desktop
"a woman who worked under him and filed a complaint to HR."
She was expected to work at the same time! Now that is unreasonable
But does it catch on fire faster too?
Seeing Islam as something harmless and exotic, like Sinbad, Aladin and Ali Baba. The idea that it would be killing people in the west for drawing cartoons would have been laughed at
Really looked quite Space 1999'ish
That's something else that people won't believe, the optimism that we would have colonised the moon and maybe mars by the year 2,000!
Steam trains in Paddington Station. And a booth on the platform where you could "make a record", talk for three minutes then a disk would come out. When I tell young people about this they assume it was in Queen Victoria's realm (do I really look that old?), but it was actually in the 1960s
"Isn't VAT charged in the member state where the retailer is based, irrespective of where the buyer is, assuming the goods are being shipped inside the EU."
No that has changed a couple of years ago. Now it's the buyer's country that is relevant.
But only if the sales in the other country exceed the VAT threshold (min 35,000 euros). At this amount they can probably afford to register for VAT in that country. Another option is to use an already VAT registered agent in the country.
And the person he lands on? Is that Darwinism at work?
If he lands on the guy who decided not to stop him because it's Darwinism at work then yes
OMG will someone stop him from this suicide attempt?
Assuming he has a requirement for security then of course he's right