It's a good idea, but the Dixons Sales Group (DSG), of which PC World is a member (along with Currys, Dixons/Currys Digital, The Link and Pixmania) have the worst Customer Service department ever, and probably won't give a sh*t.
Whenever any of my friends say they are going to buy something from PC World, I shake my head and tell them to go to another retailer (Comet are nice people, also Dabs or Amazon). It's not worth being mis-sold a piece of crap that will likely fail within a year and that they will then refuse to fix...
I noticed a transaction to the British Red Cross in April for 4.00 GBP, which I hadn't made. I thought about it (it's only 4 quid, and it's to a charity, but on the other hand how the hell did it happen?), and decided to phone my bank, who reversed it. A month later, another 4.00 GBP transaction, so I rang my bank and cancelled the card. Later that day, another transaction for the same amount was authorised by my bank (who apparently hadn't processed the cancellation request as quickly as I would have liked). They refunded the money again. I haven't had any more problems.
I wasn't sure it even was the real "British Red Cross". Just because it says so on my bank statement, it doesn't give me any guarantees.
I don't know how they got my card details. I'm quite careful, but I've seen restaurants write down credit card information to guarantee bookings including addresses and security numbers; and then leave that information in plain view. I bought an item over the telephone from a small retailer, and I'm guessing something similar happened.
For A A A C C B B, there isn't a majority element.
Ah - I can see why it's confusing. When I read it and spotted the same issue, I thought the problem was to find the modal element (the element that appears more than any other element). The problem is actually asking for an element which appears in more than 50% of the cases - i.e. the majority of the sequence must be made up of one element.
Flash memory, not web-animation-Flash.
(Not The Flash who runs very fast, and not Flash Gordon who fights Ming the Merciless. Also, not Flash the bathroom-cleaning liquid).
I'd love a new 2D scrolling Zelda, SMB or Castlevania
It might be worth considering getting a Nintendo DS. Zelda: Minish Cap is a fun 2D Zelda game for the GBA, although not as long as Link to the Past. There are GBA and DS Castlevania games, which have good-if-not-great reviews, and New Super Mario Bros for the DS is awesome. The engine may be 3D, but the gameplay is pure 2D.
I'm not saying any of these games are as good as their predecessors, but they are excellent games in their own right (rights?)...
Nope - some are black, some are white (at least in the UK). amazon.co.uk and again (although you can possibly get them cheaper elsewhere - importing the white one from Australia, for example)
One thing that's good about having the extra features in the core product, is that the quality should be better. As noted by a commenter above, it's often extensions that cause memory leaks, and it's difficult to know which are stable and which aren't. In theory, anything that's implemented in the core code has been tested for stability, memory leaks and usability.
UK citizens (I count myself amongst them( have been losing our privacy for years. Our employers even have the rights to browse through our emails.
Could someone please mod the parent as flame-bait?
... it's a "First Look", and seems to be just a description of the brief footage from the Nintendo Press Conference (in case anyone else gets as excited as I did (mildly)).
The Register is running a story that the code has been cracked.
It reads:
Jackie Fisher, who are you? Dreadnought ...
Smith used the Fibonacci Sequence, which appears in The Da Vinci Code to encrypt the historical nugget. Under the Fibonacci Sequence each number is the sum of the previous two numbers thus:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21...
Some arithmetic gymnastics based in the sequence was used to rearrange the italicised letters in Smith's judgment to decrypt them.
But the article doesn't go into too any more detail than that. I'd be interested in finding out what those gymnastics were.
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It's a good idea, but the Dixons Sales Group (DSG), of which PC World is a member (along with Currys, Dixons/Currys Digital, The Link and Pixmania) have the worst Customer Service department ever, and probably won't give a sh*t.
Whenever any of my friends say they are going to buy something from PC World, I shake my head and tell them to go to another retailer (Comet are nice people, also Dabs or Amazon). It's not worth being mis-sold a piece of crap that will likely fail within a year and that they will then refuse to fix...
... someone found it.
I noticed a transaction to the British Red Cross in April for 4.00 GBP, which I hadn't made. I thought about it (it's only 4 quid, and it's to a charity, but on the other hand how the hell did it happen?), and decided to phone my bank, who reversed it. A month later, another 4.00 GBP transaction, so I rang my bank and cancelled the card. Later that day, another transaction for the same amount was authorised by my bank (who apparently hadn't processed the cancellation request as quickly as I would have liked). They refunded the money again. I haven't had any more problems.
I wasn't sure it even was the real "British Red Cross". Just because it says so on my bank statement, it doesn't give me any guarantees.
I don't know how they got my card details. I'm quite careful, but I've seen restaurants write down credit card information to guarantee bookings including addresses and security numbers; and then leave that information in plain view. I bought an item over the telephone from a small retailer, and I'm guessing something similar happened.
The article is a bit light on details, but if this can be used to filter my RSS feeds in real-time, I'll be a happy bunny.
The 2010 Olympics is a "Winter Olympics". Good luck holding one of those in Greece!
For A A A C C B B, there isn't a majority element.
Ah - I can see why it's confusing. When I read it and spotted the same issue, I thought the problem was to find the modal element (the element that appears more than any other element). The problem is actually asking for an element which appears in more than 50% of the cases - i.e. the majority of the sequence must be made up of one element.
Each value was put in "quotes"...
... there was no millennium special ...
... there was no millennium special ...
... there was no millennium special ...
</denial>
Flash memory, not web-animation-Flash. (Not The Flash who runs very fast, and not Flash Gordon who fights Ming the Merciless. Also, not Flash the bathroom-cleaning liquid).
From the Article: :
:earlier 10m
:later 5s
... So I don't need to actually do the work any more? I can just start a new file "Project Plan", enter the command ":later 7200s" then print it out?
I realise that I have made a mistake. I can easily take the document to a point 10 minutes back by using the command
Or for that matter, move to a point 5 seconds ahead by using the command:
All your verbs are belong to Microsoft...
It might be worth considering getting a Nintendo DS. Zelda: Minish Cap is a fun 2D Zelda game for the GBA, although not as long as Link to the Past. There are GBA and DS Castlevania games, which have good-if-not-great reviews, and New Super Mario Bros for the DS is awesome. The engine may be 3D, but the gameplay is pure 2D.
I'm not saying any of these games are as good as their predecessors, but they are excellent games in their own right (rights?)...
It's sad that these are the only kind of dates we have to look forward to :o(
I can't imagine Winking all over the web
Nope - some are black, some are white (at least in the UK).
amazon.co.uk and again (although you can possibly get them cheaper elsewhere - importing the white one from Australia, for example)
Agreed. If I type
If CorrectPassword(input) Then
allowlogin = True
Else
allowlogin = False
Endif
am I five times better than
allowlogin = CorrectPassword(input)
?
(That's how my RSS reader truncated the title of the story - it made me jump!)
Obligatory Wikipedia link
One thing that's good about having the extra features in the core product, is that the quality should be better. As noted by a commenter above, it's often extensions that cause memory leaks, and it's difficult to know which are stable and which aren't. In theory, anything that's implemented in the core code has been tested for stability, memory leaks and usability.
... oh, wait, bio diesel ... never mind
UK citizens (I count myself amongst them( have been losing our privacy for years. Our employers even have the rights to browse through our emails. Could someone please mod the parent as flame-bait?
Ah, now I've found the hands-on
... it's a "First Look", and seems to be just a description of the brief footage from the Nintendo Press Conference (in case anyone else gets as excited as I did (mildly)).