Heh. That is slightly amusing - are you American? It was the assumption that if you're not at home/in the office, you must be in a car that gave it away. In the UK, at least, people don't text while driving (although they do talk, even though it's illegal now). But people will text when at home, work, in a cafe, in a shop, on the street, on a bus, in a taxi, on a train, etc.
I guess it's just a cultural thing - the US seems not to use text much (although that's changing with various new charge plans). In Europe, etc, texting is considered...well, it's not considered. It's a nothing. It's a commodity. It's like water. Want to tell someone something? Send them a message.
I was once with some friends (British, American, and a Brit living in the US), trying to find a restaurant in London. One of us went off up the street to look along the other streets at a crossroads. He found it, then texted us (or possibly called us) to tell us. He was only a hundred or two yards away, but it surprised the US contingent that he would use it like that. For the UK people, it was completely natural, and we didn't even think about it until they pointed it out.
Maybe it is just the money - my parents grew up in a time when using the phone was relatively expensive. A few years back, when before they got broadband, my Dad asked me to check his modem settings, as sometimes it didn't hang up after he'd finished using the internet, and sometimes it would run for 30 minutes or an hour before he noticed. I knew what time of day he used the internet, so did some mental arithmetic, and said, "Yeah, I mean that could cost you up to 50 pence!" as a joke. His reply: "Exactly!"
So it takes a while to change that ingrained almost unconscious feeling. Having said that, my parents are now on broadband, and get more free minutes per month on their phone than I use in a year, and use their mobiles like water, so things can change:-)
Oh, and don't believe that it is hard to change the billing system.
Oh, believe it:-) When MMS (multimedia messages) first hit the UK, everyone charged a fixed rate per month for the ability to send them - except for Orange. When quizzed on why they were 'ripping off' their customers, Orange responded that the reason they were the only ones charging per message was simple - they were the only company with a billing system that could charge per MMS message. All the other telco's billing systems needed upgrading, and they would charge based on the number of messages sent if they possibly could.
Also, I was once told a story about a room in a telco with a bunch of (6?) DOS based PCs. When asked why these PCs were there, my contact was told they ran the telco's SMS system for the whole of the UK. They were terrified of changing it. And this wasn't as long ago as you'd like to think:-)
Ha, good one. I use GMail, and every so often I have to go and look at my Hotmail account (it's my login for MSN Messenger), and every time I do it irritates the living fuck out of me. That's not what I look for in a webmail system.
UMD disks hold 1.8 gigs of data. The MEmory Stick the PSP uses holds 4 gigs max at $50-80 per card. It's simply not cost effective to replace UMD with these "yet"
Assuming most PSP games need 1.8Gb of data. A lot of UMDs are not nearly full, and ones that are may just be duplicating data across the disk (to reduce seeking, which hits the battery, and is slow).
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WTF: from 'I don't know anything about databases' to 'building a database for a customer' what amount of time?
Well, she did say:
"On a Sunday, a fellow user-group member suggested I learn SQL [...]"
Maybe it went like this:
I never noticed until this evening while building a database for a customer to use with her business, but I can't seem to find the place in the book where the code for creating multiple tables from two foreign keys exists
Geez, handing a politician an actual suitcase full of cash went out with Huey Long. The smart companies figured out long ago that there were much better, technically legal, ways to bribe their politicians.
Yeah, I mean, you'd think they'd know that in Korea, cash bribes are for old people.
Out of interest, do you really actually do that? I can't remember the last time I divided a bill up between the people I was with, and we bothered with anything lower than a pound or dollar.
"Ok, so the bill was $37 and there's 3 of us. Let's call that $12 each, and one of us pays $13."
"Ok."
"Fine with me."
Or, more commonly, use the tip to round up to an amount that's evenly divisible by 3.
I've only had to know how many lesser units there were in a larger unit when doing some primary-school math.
Ironically, you'd probably have to still be in primary-school to care about the 66 cents extra you're paying.
Young people today are nothing compared to what is to come. e-ink restuatant bills that calculate the price for everyone, and even takes into account if you had 2 drinks or 3.
Really? Including in the case of the fraudulent medical devices? What about the fact that most of these people pray on the elderly? Pray? That would explain their efficacy.
Oh, I'm sure you could build it - my point was that not one of those 'photographs' looked like they were photographs of a place that physically existed. The ceilings in particular look fake - perfect gradient fills everywhere, perfectly symmetrical and lit. Can you really not see that?
Is it real or not? TFA claims they actually built it over six months (which seems too short for 3 areas), whereas the 'photos' all look like unconvincing renders to me. I mean, that ceiling motif is ludicrously obvious in its not realness.
Anyway, watch out for my awesome new case mod - the case will be made out of live snakes! All 100% photoshop!
I never understood people who say they don't get spam on gmail.
I use GMail for all my email, and I see maybe (maybe!) one spam email per day.
Before I used GMail, that would be more like 30-50 spams per day. I just checked my spam folder - GMail took care of 49 spam emails for me yesterday.
So I'd say it works for me.
As all the most helpful people say, there must be something wrong with your setup:-)
Since I don't use it except as a backup, I've never given my address to anyone save for my web host and yet, here is all this spam.
Aha, well, if you don't actually use an email system, all you're likely to see is spam then, isn't it? Even if the service only lets through 1-2% of spam, if you check it every few weeks, you'll be thinking "All this spam!"
Usually compiled programming language generates binary code ( aka machine language ) not ASM code.
Not so much. That's an artifact of the interface. Most compilers will output assembly language, and the tool chain will convert the assembly files into binary machine language afterwards (by calling some form of assembler). You might just as well say that most compilers generate executable images, because most compilers will chain to the linker unless you specify otherwise.
Reminds me that I used to find a binary chop necessary in interview questions to determine experience. e.g. when I interviewed about 30-40 "C++ programmers" one of my standard questions was "What is a virtual function?", i.e. how is a virtual function different to a regular function. I moved it further up my list over time as I found that virtually (ha) nobody knew the answer. Out of all those 'C++ programmers', I think 2 knew the answer.
Handy though, because when I found someone who could answer it, I knew I'd found someone who had half a clue about what they're doing.
Well, (as I understand it) the video is always transcoded when syncing occurs, to match the Zune's screen/performance.
This limitation means you can't sync certain shows you've recorded to your Zune, just because the channel/show happens to be in HD. Arbitrary annoyance, and kinda dumb, really.
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Heh. That is slightly amusing - are you American? It was the assumption that if you're not at home/in the office, you must be in a car that gave it away. In the UK, at least, people don't text while driving (although they do talk, even though it's illegal now). But people will text when at home, work, in a cafe, in a shop, on the street, on a bus, in a taxi, on a train, etc.
I guess it's just a cultural thing - the US seems not to use text much (although that's changing with various new charge plans). In Europe, etc, texting is considered...well, it's not considered. It's a nothing. It's a commodity. It's like water. Want to tell someone something? Send them a message.
I was once with some friends (British, American, and a Brit living in the US), trying to find a restaurant in London. One of us went off up the street to look along the other streets at a crossroads. He found it, then texted us (or possibly called us) to tell us. He was only a hundred or two yards away, but it surprised the US contingent that he would use it like that. For the UK people, it was completely natural, and we didn't even think about it until they pointed it out.
Maybe it is just the money - my parents grew up in a time when using the phone was relatively expensive. A few years back, when before they got broadband, my Dad asked me to check his modem settings, as sometimes it didn't hang up after he'd finished using the internet, and sometimes it would run for 30 minutes or an hour before he noticed. I knew what time of day he used the internet, so did some mental arithmetic, and said, "Yeah, I mean that could cost you up to 50 pence!" as a joke. His reply: "Exactly!" So it takes a while to change that ingrained almost unconscious feeling. Having said that, my parents are now on broadband, and get more free minutes per month on their phone than I use in a year, and use their mobiles like water, so things can change :-)
Oh, believe it :-) When MMS (multimedia messages) first hit the UK, everyone charged a fixed rate per month for the ability to send them - except for Orange. When quizzed on why they were 'ripping off' their customers, Orange responded that the reason they were the only ones charging per message was simple - they were the only company with a billing system that could charge per MMS message. All the other telco's billing systems needed upgrading, and they would charge based on the number of messages sent if they possibly could.
Also, I was once told a story about a room in a telco with a bunch of (6?) DOS based PCs. When asked why these PCs were there, my contact was told they ran the telco's SMS system for the whole of the UK. They were terrified of changing it. And this wasn't as long ago as you'd like to think :-)
Ha, good one. I use GMail, and every so often I have to go and look at my Hotmail account (it's my login for MSN Messenger), and every time I do it irritates the living fuck out of me. That's not what I look for in a webmail system.
Did anyone take it?
It's all good :-)
The Force in the first trilogy is mystical, and is inherited, apparently (or at least in the Skywalker clan's case) by blood.
So...er, it's genetic then?
Taping over Top Gear? Sounds like fecking excellent judgment to me!
Not here it's not (Windows XP, Firefox 2.0.0.9, both installed fresh about 2 weeks ago). It just goes to Google search for 'wp slashdot'.
Isn't the game set around the time of The Crusades?
"The entire game consists of five things."
"Three, Sir!"
Assuming most PSP games need 1.8Gb of data. A lot of UMDs are not nearly full, and ones that are may just be duplicating data across the disk (to reduce seeking, which hits the battery, and is slow).
Well, she did say:
"On a Sunday, a fellow user-group member suggested I learn SQL [...]"Maybe it went like this:
I never noticed until this evening while building a database for a customer to use with her business, but I can't seem to find the place in the book where the code for creating multiple tables from two foreign keys existsFFS, learn SQL!
Just a guess. :-)
To paraphrase Mark Twain: but you repeat yourself. :-)
Yeah, I mean, you'd think they'd know that in Korea, cash bribes are for old people.
Out of interest, do you really actually do that? I can't remember the last time I divided a bill up between the people I was with, and we bothered with anything lower than a pound or dollar.
"Ok, so the bill was $37 and there's 3 of us. Let's call that $12 each, and one of us pays $13."
"Ok."
"Fine with me."
Or, more commonly, use the tip to round up to an amount that's evenly divisible by 3.
I've only had to know how many lesser units there were in a larger unit when doing some primary-school math.Ironically, you'd probably have to still be in primary-school to care about the 66 cents extra you're paying.
Cats and dogs, living together...
Oh, I'm sure you could build it - my point was that not one of those 'photographs' looked like they were photographs of a place that physically existed. The ceilings in particular look fake - perfect gradient fills everywhere, perfectly symmetrical and lit. Can you really not see that?
Is it real or not? TFA claims they actually built it over six months (which seems too short for 3 areas), whereas the 'photos' all look like unconvincing renders to me. I mean, that ceiling motif is ludicrously obvious in its not realness.
Anyway, watch out for my awesome new case mod - the case will be made out of live snakes! All 100% photoshop!
How is that different to anyone anywhere, ever?
It has its downsides though:
bill: oh, and I'm going to have to ask you to go ahead and come in on Saturday
peter: ok
I use GMail for all my email, and I see maybe (maybe!) one spam email per day.
Before I used GMail, that would be more like 30-50 spams per day. I just checked my spam folder - GMail took care of 49 spam emails for me yesterday.
So I'd say it works for me.
As all the most helpful people say, there must be something wrong with your setup :-)
Since I don't use it except as a backup, I've never given my address to anyone save for my web host and yet, here is all this spam.Aha, well, if you don't actually use an email system, all you're likely to see is spam then, isn't it? Even if the service only lets through 1-2% of spam, if you check it every few weeks, you'll be thinking "All this spam!"
Not so much. That's an artifact of the interface. Most compilers will output assembly language, and the tool chain will convert the assembly files into binary machine language afterwards (by calling some form of assembler). You might just as well say that most compilers generate executable images, because most compilers will chain to the linker unless you specify otherwise.
Reminds me that I used to find a binary chop necessary in interview questions to determine experience. e.g. when I interviewed about 30-40 "C++ programmers" one of my standard questions was "What is a virtual function?", i.e. how is a virtual function different to a regular function. I moved it further up my list over time as I found that virtually (ha) nobody knew the answer. Out of all those 'C++ programmers', I think 2 knew the answer.
Handy though, because when I found someone who could answer it, I knew I'd found someone who had half a clue about what they're doing.
Well, (as I understand it) the video is always transcoded when syncing occurs, to match the Zune's screen/performance.
This limitation means you can't sync certain shows you've recorded to your Zune, just because the channel/show happens to be in HD. Arbitrary annoyance, and kinda dumb, really.
You do realise this is just a consolidated list of features that users requested for the next version of Windows, right?