Since he wrote "tonne" he's obviously in the UK. And so, the British spelling must be something like "Faris Bhuler's Holiday" (don't pronounce the 'h' in either case)
"Compliment each another"? chords and melodies cannot compliment one another, however, they can complement one another, like complementaty colors. and "each another" is just sloppy. I've got mod points, so I'm not worried too much about burning karma...thus the latent grammar Nazi comes out.
My guess is that your inconsistency is part of what distinguishes you from other typists and the software uses that information to its advantage. Other people are more consistent, less consistent, inconsistent in different ways. I know I type with about four fingers: my left index finger, my right index and middle fingers, and my right thumb, and I also know I tend to make certain typos more often than others. I suspect that those things contribute to the distinct pattern in my typing that could be identified. Still, I'm sure I would not want to use to such a scheme for identity verification.
They're doing different things, to be sure. Women use it more for social activities, men more for browsing and collecting (hunting and gathering?). I think some of the reports consider using e-mail as being online. I do believe that you are correct in saying that men spend more money online than women.
My wife and I are somewhat exceptions in the spending category. Although I spend more time online, and she does spend a lot of time using e-mail, she pays our bills and occasionally buys things online. I almost never do that.
Some Harvard and Berkeley researchers wrote a paper on their findings about Why Phishing Works to explain the success of one type of internet scam.
Not really. Any legitimate Army website should be in the.mil domain. Still they picked an ironic command to spoof - this whole exercise must've been just great for morale. "87% of Army personnel were successfully conned into revealing personal information by a phishing e-mail and website. Go ARMY!" (I made up 87% - it's a joke.)
...and this all makes perfect sense if you just remember to follow the simple rule: "ALWAYS interpret a headline in the way that makes the writer out to be the biggest knucklehead possible"!
What, because private schools don't have IT policies?
Last time I checked, I worked for a private company. I can't go around installing Ubuntu here, either.
I was quite surprised when I recently read a short story by Eudora Welty that contained the construction "would of", more than once. As in, "She would of gone to the store with him, if it hadn't been so hot." I don't know if it was done for some effect, or out of ignorance.
Freescale? Hmm, seem to recall that company having something to do with Motorola... Well, at least the new guy knows something about the semiconductor biz...
Interesting quote from Mayer from Sept. 2006: ************ One of Freescales long-term technology commitments has been to MRAM, but can it succeed?
MRAM has the potential to be widely used, it has to go down the cost curve, replies Mayer. Today it is niche. There is nothing intrinsically in the technology that says it cant go down the cost curve. I dont know of any showstopper why it cant be widely used.
But Cypress Semiconductor pulled out of MRAM last year, with CEO, T. J. Rogers, saying that the technology could not be made cost competitive with SRAM. Ours works, responds Mayer. *********** ORLY? Who's using it now?
I like Opera, but I'm running the latest stable version (9.26 build 8835), and when I opened the Acid3 test page yesterday, it crashed before finishing the test. If that's winning, sign me up for the Olympics this summer!
Even though it was first deployed in 1970, we still maintain operational Minuteman (III) missiles - it is currently our only land-based ICBM. Your comparison is meaningless. There is no smaller "modern" ICBM.
Which for a long time was the most efficient way to convert DC voltage
AFAIK, they are still used for that on nuclear submarines. We had two motor-generator sets between the AC and DC busses on the boat I was on, and although that was back in the 1980s, I expect they are still used.
It's only a small bit of anecdotal evidence, but as a chemical engineering student, I took biochemical engineering and biochemistry classes. The biochem class was mostly (IIRC) Pre-med students and I remember them complaining about how hard the class was. To me, it was a piece of cake - all the exams were multiple choice! - no other math, science or engineering class I ever took had multiple choice exams.
So, I'm not convinced that medicine is inherently more difficult than engineering - I think they are somewhat different skill sets that different people will perform differently in.
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Since he wrote "tonne" he's obviously in the UK. And so, the British spelling must be something like "Faris Bhuler's Holiday" (don't pronounce the 'h' in either case)
more like info superhighway dead ends.
Making ordinary literacy mandatory could solve some problems, too. But making something mandatory and making it happen are two different things.
pre-emptive spelling correction: complementary, not complementaty.
"Compliment each another"?
chords and melodies cannot compliment one another, however, they can complement one another, like complementaty colors.
and "each another" is just sloppy.
I've got mod points, so I'm not worried too much about burning karma...thus the latent grammar Nazi comes out.
My guess is that your inconsistency is part of what distinguishes you from other typists and the software uses that information to its advantage. Other people are more consistent, less consistent, inconsistent in different ways. I know I type with about four fingers: my left index finger, my right index and middle fingers, and my right thumb, and I also know I tend to make certain typos more often than others. I suspect that those things contribute to the distinct pattern in my typing that could be identified. Still, I'm sure I would not want to use to such a scheme for identity verification.
They're doing different things, to be sure. Women use it more for social activities, men more for browsing and collecting (hunting and gathering?). I think some of the reports consider using e-mail as being online. I do believe that you are correct in saying that men spend more money online than women.
My wife and I are somewhat exceptions in the spending category. Although I spend more time online, and she does spend a lot of time using e-mail, she pays our bills and occasionally buys things online. I almost never do that.
Some Harvard and Berkeley researchers wrote a paper on their findings about Why Phishing Works to explain the success of one type of internet scam.
Is AMD doing so poorly that that's their only hope?
Not really. Any legitimate Army website should be in the .mil domain.
Still they picked an ironic command to spoof - this whole exercise must've been just great for morale. "87% of Army personnel were successfully conned into revealing personal information by a phishing e-mail and website. Go ARMY!"
(I made up 87% - it's a joke.)
Yuck. I hate those artificial ones. They're full of preservatives. Give me a good old-fashioned, all natural, non-GMO, organic black hole any day.
...and this all makes perfect sense if you just remember to follow the simple rule: "ALWAYS interpret a headline in the way that makes the writer out to be the biggest knucklehead possible"!
I know what year Solsbury Hill was made, er, recorded: 1976. But it wasn't released until 1977. Oh, Silsbury Hill. Never mind.
How many flies des it take to screw in a light bulb?
Two. but how do they get IN there?
What, because private schools don't have IT policies? Last time I checked, I worked for a private company. I can't go around installing Ubuntu here, either.
Oh. Missed it by *that* much! Shouldn't you have said "Grab your torches and tuning forks"?
I was quite surprised when I recently read a short story by Eudora Welty that contained the construction "would of", more than once. As in, "She would of gone to the store with him, if it hadn't been so hot." I don't know if it was done for some effect, or out of ignorance.
Why is P Offtopic, when GP is Informative? Crazy moderation system. If GP is Informative then P is only more so.
You must be new here!
Freescale? Hmm, seem to recall that company having something to do with Motorola...
Well, at least the new guy knows something about the semiconductor biz...
Interesting quote from Mayer from Sept. 2006:
************
One of Freescales long-term technology commitments has been to MRAM, but can it succeed?
MRAM has the potential to be widely used, it has to go down the cost curve, replies Mayer. Today it is niche. There is nothing intrinsically in the technology that says it cant go down the cost curve. I dont know of any showstopper why it cant be widely used.
But Cypress Semiconductor pulled out of MRAM last year, with CEO, T. J. Rogers, saying that the technology could not be made cost competitive with SRAM. Ours works, responds Mayer.
***********
ORLY? Who's using it now?
I like Opera, but I'm running the latest stable version (9.26 build 8835), and when I opened the Acid3 test page yesterday, it crashed before finishing the test. If that's winning, sign me up for the Olympics this summer!
Even though it was first deployed in 1970, we still maintain operational Minuteman (III) missiles - it is currently our only land-based ICBM. Your comparison is meaningless. There is no smaller "modern" ICBM.
AFAIK, they are still used for that on nuclear submarines. We had two motor-generator sets between the AC and DC busses on the boat I was on, and although that was back in the 1980s, I expect they are still used.
It's only a small bit of anecdotal evidence, but as a chemical engineering student, I took biochemical engineering and biochemistry classes. The biochem class was mostly (IIRC) Pre-med students and I remember them complaining about how hard the class was. To me, it was a piece of cake - all the exams were multiple choice! - no other math, science or engineering class I ever took had multiple choice exams. So, I'm not convinced that medicine is inherently more difficult than engineering - I think they are somewhat different skill sets that different people will perform differently in.
It's not offtopic, but some mod didn't like it, was too lazy to comment, and preferred modding it Offtopic since there was no "-1, Disagree" option.
My guess is he tried to put some cute symbols in , like "+" and "->" and they got stripped out leaving a confusing concatenation of words.