It may have such a meaning in the former colonies where British English is still prevalent, such as Canada, India, and the West Indies, but not in the UK itself.
Yeah, and 'wanker' is just the name of that guy from 'Mork & Mindy', right?
(In case you're in any doubt from the other replies to your post, your assertion about the meaning of the word is utterly ludicrous. Did you go to the UK that is in Europe, or is there another one?)
Is it sad to say that was the exact quote I thought of when I saw this article?
You don't think the 'dept' for this article might have had something to do with that?
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It seems the quality of slashdot's editorial / review policy has declined over the years -- I remember, not that far back, when such blatant marketing-speak 'reviews' would've never made it.
The review scores have stayed the same, though - 8. Virtually every book review on slashdot I ever bother to read (or, increasingly, look at the score to bolster my pet theory) gets ~8/10.
There's probably a lesson in there somewhere, but I can't be bothered to find it.
Also, everyone seems to fail to notice that she was the niece of a multi-billionaire who could afford to open a Dinosaur theme park, so I reckon if she was interested in computers, then she'd pretty much get any system she asked for/was interested in.
Compare if you will the two versions of "The Office". Same writer, but the US version has vastly superior production values and much better performers and much better direction. It's not simply that Gervais had the opportunity to revisit some of the writing and polish it.
Same writer? The US pilot was taken from the UK version (which had two writers, not one, as I'm sure you knew), and Gervais/Merchant wrote another episode, but apart from that, the US version of The Office has been written by the US team (with some oversight by Gervais/Merchant). Production values on a programme like this are fairly irrelevant - it's supposed to be a fly on the wall documentary, with deliberately shaky/on the fly camera-work, which both versions manage to portray without getting in the way. As for much better performers, I'd also disagree - both ensemble casts are very good in each programme.
I'm British, and I like the UK version of The Office, but I also like the US version, which surprised me greatly as the very concept seemed doomed from the start, but they really pulled it off. I don't view one as inherently better than the other. The US episodes don't sustain the high-octane cringeworthy pain that the UK episodes did, but on the other hand, there are more episodes of the US version, and I'm not sure we could take 30+ episodes of the sort of pain and embarrassment that Gervais and Merchant produced.
Most customers prefer that coffee be served as hot as possible as it becomes unpleasant once it has cooled too much.
IIRC, the reason McDonalds serve the coffee that hot is because if they keep it really hot, you can't tell that the coffee is stale, and that they only make new coffee when they run out. In the case, McDonalds had been warned multiple times not to do this because it was dangerous. They kept on doing it to avoid the coffee being 'unpleasant' (i.e. customers could taste that it was stale), which is one of the reasons they lost.
It's worth noting that after the lawsuit McDonald's lowered the temperature of their coffee but after receiving complaints from customers they returned to the former temperatures.
Duh. And why ID cards would avoid terrorism in any way? You can make a bomb regardless of having an ID card or not.
My point was really that (here in the UK at least, so I don't expect you to realise it) the ID cards are always pushed by the government as the way to make us all more secure against terrorism. It will save us all, you see. It's the primary reason for introducing the scheme. Never mind that most experts (inc. the police and MI5, iirc) disagree - and you, as someone living in an ID card carrying country, seem to disagree too.
I can tell however that not having an ID card was one of the reasons it took so many time to know the identity of all the victims of UK bombings.
Oh yay, you certainly know how to sell me on the benefits of having an ID card!:-) I think I speak for many people when I say that being able to identify my charred body via an ID card is not top of my priorities.
I can also tell that it was probably much easier for the police to find the terrorists that did the 11-M bombings
Er, got a source for that assertion?
(since they probably had to use their IDs for so many things, getting internet connextion requires filling in your ID number).
Ah. So no, then.
It also probably saves lots of money to the administration.
That's 'probably' why the UK govt keeps refusing to give an estimate of how much the ID card system would cost.
A lot of the resistance, as well as a dislike for the general concept/system, is merely that it won't improve anything, so why waste billions of pounds of UK taxpayers' money implementing it?
And I guess the Madrid train bombings prove that ID cards are no defence against terrorism, and they cost a large bunch of money to implement, so...why should we have them?
This has always been one of my pondering points of Star Trek. Where, in the development of the Earth, did they find the time to 'educate' students on the likes of Calculus and 'general education requirements' while also being able to teach them the intricacies of Quantum Mechanics, deflector dish re-alignment, and power coupling re-direction, all by the age of like 18 and flying around on a star ship!
I love the CSI episode where they "rotate" the security camera still to see the front of the guy's face, when the camera caught him from the back
Sounds like Enemy of the State.
I often think in CSI that they should have a 'Bullshit Lab'. I mean they have a DNA lab, a Fingerprint lab, a Trace Analysis lab, a Ballistics lab. Wouldn't that be a great ace in the hole the next time Grisson or Horatio is up against it? "Ok, people, we need to take it to the next level. Let's go to the Bullshit lab." Then they march in to watch some totally made-up 3D animation of victims bouncing off walls and cars and the tech guy says "Here's that bullshit you wanted, guys!" and hands them the retina scan from a reflection of someone's face from a car mirror taken by some ATM cctv footage, and it has the eye colour right and everything.
I went to university with a guy who used to write ZX Spectrum games on the side. Another Spectrum games programmer he knew used to type in the hex codes of the instructions he wanted directly. My friend explained you could get assemblers, and what they did. The guy thought about it for a couple of seconds and said he could see why some people might like them, but they wouldn't be any use for him.
IIRC, he also used to be able to read ASCII dumps as machine code listings in his head.
Yeah, but that's incredibly unbelievable...having an undocumented, wide open public phone port in the room hosting the machine that will decide the fate of the next nuclear war.
You've never worked in the military, have you?
I mean, neither have I, but I fully expect some ex-military tech to come along in the next day and post a reply to this message saying "He's right, that could definitely happen.":-)
I'll save you the time - 7th Guest will be shite on whatever platform it's ported to, because it's a shite game. It's basically a gauche video remake of Gyles Brandeth's Big Book of Puzzles.
The third (or fourth)? time I entered a new room, and the carpet slid away revealing a chequered tile pattern and yet another freaking chess puzzle, I groaned in pain.
Just a terrible, terrible game. Buy a book of puzzles and save yourself 30 units of local currency.
Trust me, if you want to blast the suppliers of development tools for games consoles, then you're way off base aiming at Microsoft. There are other manufacturers who are much worse. Anyway, for the Xbox, the version of DX was frozen for quite a while (v8.1, I think) - it might have been updated, but I don't think so. That's kind of the point of a console - it's a fixed platform. You don't need to "retest/redevelop games every year".
if you have some basic math, the idea is to replace the integral, which diverges in the high frequency limit, with a discrete summation over integral multiples of the basic frequency unit (Planck's constant), and it no longer diverges
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Ah, but subliminally... :-)
Yeah, and 'wanker' is just the name of that guy from 'Mork & Mindy', right?
(In case you're in any doubt from the other replies to your post, your assertion about the meaning of the word is utterly ludicrous. Did you go to the UK that is in Europe, or is there another one?)
You don't think the 'dept' for this article might have had something to do with that?
The review scores have stayed the same, though - 8. Virtually every book review on slashdot I ever bother to read (or, increasingly, look at the score to bolster my pet theory) gets ~8/10.
There's probably a lesson in there somewhere, but I can't be bothered to find it.
It allows the OP to feel superior. Simple!
You never played DaiKatana, did you?
Thanks for explaining the joke to us. Do you have a card, so we can call you the next time a joke comes up?
Yes
Also, everyone seems to fail to notice that she was the niece of a multi-billionaire who could afford to open a Dinosaur theme park, so I reckon if she was interested in computers, then she'd pretty much get any system she asked for/was interested in.
I think it's more to do with not having the space for pets.
Same writer? The US pilot was taken from the UK version (which had two writers, not one, as I'm sure you knew), and Gervais/Merchant wrote another episode, but apart from that, the US version of The Office has been written by the US team (with some oversight by Gervais/Merchant). Production values on a programme like this are fairly irrelevant - it's supposed to be a fly on the wall documentary, with deliberately shaky/on the fly camera-work, which both versions manage to portray without getting in the way. As for much better performers, I'd also disagree - both ensemble casts are very good in each programme.
I'm British, and I like the UK version of The Office, but I also like the US version, which surprised me greatly as the very concept seemed doomed from the start, but they really pulled it off. I don't view one as inherently better than the other. The US episodes don't sustain the high-octane cringeworthy pain that the UK episodes did, but on the other hand, there are more episodes of the US version, and I'm not sure we could take 30+ episodes of the sort of pain and embarrassment that Gervais and Merchant produced.
Sorry, it was a bit obscure. But that's why I liked it.
Actually, the answer is "I am now going to plug my controller into port #2."
IIRC, the reason McDonalds serve the coffee that hot is because if they keep it really hot, you can't tell that the coffee is stale, and that they only make new coffee when they run out. In the case, McDonalds had been warned multiple times not to do this because it was dangerous. They kept on doing it to avoid the coffee being 'unpleasant' (i.e. customers could taste that it was stale), which is one of the reasons they lost.
It's worth noting that after the lawsuit McDonald's lowered the temperature of their coffee but after receiving complaints from customers they returned to the former temperatures.See above.
My point was really that (here in the UK at least, so I don't expect you to realise it) the ID cards are always pushed by the government as the way to make us all more secure against terrorism. It will save us all, you see. It's the primary reason for introducing the scheme. Never mind that most experts (inc. the police and MI5, iirc) disagree - and you, as someone living in an ID card carrying country, seem to disagree too.
I can tell however that not having an ID card was one of the reasons it took so many time to know the identity of all the victims of UK bombings.Oh yay, you certainly know how to sell me on the benefits of having an ID card! :-) I think I speak for many people when I say that being able to identify my charred body via an ID card is not top of my priorities.
I can also tell that it was probably much easier for the police to find the terrorists that did the 11-M bombingsEr, got a source for that assertion?
(since they probably had to use their IDs for so many things, getting internet connextion requires filling in your ID number).Ah. So no, then.
It also probably saves lots of money to the administration.That's 'probably' why the UK govt keeps refusing to give an estimate of how much the ID card system would cost.
A lot of the resistance, as well as a dislike for the general concept/system, is merely that it won't improve anything, so why waste billions of pounds of UK taxpayers' money implementing it?
And I guess the Madrid train bombings prove that ID cards are no defence against terrorism, and they cost a large bunch of money to implement, so...why should we have them?
Star Trek is a work of fiction.
HTH!
Where's the '-1, Let Me Get My Supervisor' mod when you need it?
Sounds like Enemy of the State.
I often think in CSI that they should have a 'Bullshit Lab'. I mean they have a DNA lab, a Fingerprint lab, a Trace Analysis lab, a Ballistics lab. Wouldn't that be a great ace in the hole the next time Grisson or Horatio is up against it? "Ok, people, we need to take it to the next level. Let's go to the Bullshit lab." Then they march in to watch some totally made-up 3D animation of victims bouncing off walls and cars and the tech guy says "Here's that bullshit you wanted, guys!" and hands them the retina scan from a reflection of someone's face from a car mirror taken by some ATM cctv footage, and it has the eye colour right and everything.
Case solved!
I went to university with a guy who used to write ZX Spectrum games on the side. Another Spectrum games programmer he knew used to type in the hex codes of the instructions he wanted directly. My friend explained you could get assemblers, and what they did. The guy thought about it for a couple of seconds and said he could see why some people might like them, but they wouldn't be any use for him.
IIRC, he also used to be able to read ASCII dumps as machine code listings in his head.
Stupid? Probably. Nobody? No.
You've never worked in the military, have you?
I mean, neither have I, but I fully expect some ex-military tech to come along in the next day and post a reply to this message saying "He's right, that could definitely happen." :-)
"What? Who? IBM? DOS? Tell them I'm out with my son! We can talk tomorrow."
I'll save you the time - 7th Guest will be shite on whatever platform it's ported to, because it's a shite game. It's basically a gauche video remake of Gyles Brandeth's Big Book of Puzzles.
The third (or fourth)? time I entered a new room, and the carpet slid away revealing a chequered tile pattern and yet another freaking chess puzzle, I groaned in pain.
Just a terrible, terrible game. Buy a book of puzzles and save yourself 30 units of local currency.
Trust me, if you want to blast the suppliers of development tools for games consoles, then you're way off base aiming at Microsoft. There are other manufacturers who are much worse. Anyway, for the Xbox, the version of DX was frozen for quite a while (v8.1, I think) - it might have been updated, but I don't think so. That's kind of the point of a console - it's a fixed platform. You don't need to "retest/redevelop games every year".
For some local definitions of 'basic'.