Best of luck from Birmingham, UK - staying up late here to watch this one in. Appreciate all the effort put into this and hope you get the good news you deserve!
I'm not sure if I'm understanding this properly, but it seems that the people that "don't want it to resize automatically" really want "to be able to resize it manually".
If that's the case, why not allow it to be manually resized and use whatever is set as a 'minimum' size for the box. When you type more than fits, start to automatically enlarge the box from there.
I get areas of nasty dried skin on my feet and will happily set about cutting them off. Inevitably I cut too deep and bleed a little. Everywhere. First time I thought "oh crap"... but 100th or so time performing minor surgery, I don't give a shit.
Mind you, despite 3 years practise the missus still gets in a tizz as I sit stemming the bleed with tissue paper and/or superglue. Mostly because I'm making a mess on the carpet (I don't want to think about the row I'd get if I bled to death on the nice rugs).
So far the scientific community haven't provided a way for the Bacterial flagella to evolve, just that a small subset of those same components could be used for another function, see wikipedia
Your mistake here is to assume that things cannot evolve with one purpose and then be co-opted to another. Close relations of bacterial flagella proteins have been found in ancestor bacteria and many continue to feature elsewhere in cells found today. Once existing and in use they have been adapted or simply appropriated to this new purpose.
Incredibly unlikely? Maybe. But bacteria had a long time to chance this out. This pattern of development is the very reason why the design of the flagella is so unnecessarily complex: it's a biological botch job. If this is 'intelligent' design, the designer was on crack.
'Irreducible complexity' of a functioning trait and 'numerous, successive, slight modifications' to achieve it are not mutually exclusive.
I solved that with my 3 YO daughter by taking the batteries out of her toy and telling her that the toy is hers, but the batteries were mine. When she realised that the toy didn't work without the batteries, she understood the meaning of sharing.
Lesson: When you share something you both end up with nothing worth having?:)
My experience at a the University of Edinburgh ("a good uni") was that Psychologists really don't know math. I spent ~6 months being subjected to lectures on statistical theory about chi-squared and normal distribution that frankly didn't make any sense: "Why do we add +1 here?" "Because it works"
Seriously.
At the end of the course we were given a summary lecture that (shock horror, ladies fainting at the back) gave us a FORMULA that explained the whole point of what we'd been taught. I wasn't the only person who, at this point, suddenly realised wtf they had been blabbering on for the past 2 months... and more to the point, how much crap they'd been talking. Psychologists were taking formulae based on reason and using them to support conjecture. That's not inflammatory, it's fact.
I'm with the Royal Bank of Scotland and we've been using them for over a year so far. Me and the missus have 2 accounts each (1 person, 1 joint) so they sent us 4 of the things: my overdraft charges at work. On the one hand it takes the whole convenience out of "online banking" when you have to carry a calculator around with you. On the other, it is obviously secure and vaguely "futuristic".
They've also implemented an online increased security thing that 'intercepts' banking transactions and requires you enter particular digits out of an additional password. Annoying, but more secure. Now you're entering a name, a card number, an expiry date, a 3 digit security code off the signature strip, and 3 digits from a password. Convenience. I'm waiting for v3 where they take a sperm sample.
Rather than these little boxes of tricks, I've wondered if they couldn't just provide you with a sum to remember ("number plus 5, times 3") and then supply you with a random number at login to calculate with . Might require a bit of mental arithmetic but lets face it, the plebs need the practise.
IANAL but the UK law covering this is the Computer Misuse Act and more recently the European Convention on Cyber Crime.
As I read it BT are guilty under CMA 1(1) which relates to unauthorised access to any program or data held in a computer. Whether the information checking is done on the computer or the ADSL hub it is a violation. With regard to the Convention on Cybercrime they appear to be guilty under Articles 2, 3 and 6.
Auto-completing words when writing bullet lists. If you don't end the lines with full-stops, hitting Enter will auto-complete some random word instead of starting a new line. You're list of "My Favourite Animals" becomes:
To be honest, the whole situation was news to me when I first read about it last year. It seemed (and still does) that such a big political rearrangement could occur and be out of the general consciousness so quickly. Countries come and go, but it's not often that they relocate (even within their borders). It's like the USA government being overthrown, relocating to Hawaii and then continuing to thrive.
The bit at the top of the Wikipedia article that says...
It was one of the victorious powers of World War II[6] and a founding member of the United Nations. ...kinda sums it up. When I learnt about this history it was just "China" no distinction.
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Congratulations, nicely done!
Best of luck from Birmingham, UK - staying up late here to watch this one in. Appreciate all the effort put into this and hope you get the good news you deserve!
I hope you (and everyone else offering suggestions on this thread) is joking. A "pippin" is a type apple, as in the fruit.
Of course, that may just be an extraordinary coincidence.
A full page of posts and not a score above 2.
...no, really.
Nothing to see here, move along...
I'm not sure if I'm understanding this properly, but it seems that the people that "don't want it to resize automatically" really want "to be able to resize it manually".
If that's the case, why not allow it to be manually resized and use whatever is set as a 'minimum' size for the box. When you type more than fits, start to automatically enlarge the box from there.
Am I missing something?
I get areas of nasty dried skin on my feet and will happily set about cutting them off. Inevitably I cut too deep and bleed a little. Everywhere. First time I thought "oh crap"... but 100th or so time performing minor surgery, I don't give a shit.
Mind you, despite 3 years practise the missus still gets in a tizz as I sit stemming the bleed with tissue paper and/or superglue. Mostly because I'm making a mess on the carpet (I don't want to think about the row I'd get if I bled to death on the nice rugs).
* See point #2
Your mistake here is to assume that things cannot evolve with one purpose and then be co-opted to another. Close relations of bacterial flagella proteins have been found in ancestor bacteria and many continue to feature elsewhere in cells found today. Once existing and in use they have been adapted or simply appropriated to this new purpose.
Incredibly unlikely? Maybe. But bacteria had a long time to chance this out. This pattern of development is the very reason why the design of the flagella is so unnecessarily complex: it's a biological botch job. If this is 'intelligent' design, the designer was on crack.
'Irreducible complexity' of a functioning trait and 'numerous, successive, slight modifications' to achieve it are not mutually exclusive.
Link please.
Lesson: When you share something you both end up with nothing worth having?
My experience at a the University of Edinburgh ("a good uni") was that Psychologists really don't know math. I spent ~6 months being subjected to lectures on statistical theory about chi-squared and normal distribution that frankly didn't make any sense: "Why do we add +1 here?" "Because it works"
Seriously.
At the end of the course we were given a summary lecture that (shock horror, ladies fainting at the back) gave us a FORMULA that explained the whole point of what we'd been taught. I wasn't the only person who, at this point, suddenly realised wtf they had been blabbering on for the past 2 months... and more to the point, how much crap they'd been talking. Psychologists were taking formulae based on reason and using them to support conjecture. That's not inflammatory, it's fact.
Probably not, but they might "'google it' on Yahoo!" much like people happily "hoover with a Dyson".
I think that is best single argument I have ever heard against state interference in people's behaviour (aka. the 'nanny state'). Interesting, thanks.
Birmingham already has the best intersections in the world... That's a city centre you're looking at.
Of course there is the obligatory reference to Spaghetti Junction.
I love this city.
Do negative balances count as enough?! Maybe they wanted to make sure it wasn't fraud so when I couldn't pay up they could do me over without excuses.
P.S. I could send you one if you wanted, I've got spares.
I'm with the Royal Bank of Scotland and we've been using them for over a year so far. Me and the missus have 2 accounts each (1 person, 1 joint) so they sent us 4 of the things: my overdraft charges at work. On the one hand it takes the whole convenience out of "online banking" when you have to carry a calculator around with you. On the other, it is obviously secure and vaguely "futuristic".
They've also implemented an online increased security thing that 'intercepts' banking transactions and requires you enter particular digits out of an additional password. Annoying, but more secure. Now you're entering a name, a card number, an expiry date, a 3 digit security code off the signature strip, and 3 digits from a password. Convenience. I'm waiting for v3 where they take a sperm sample.
Rather than these little boxes of tricks, I've wondered if they couldn't just provide you with a sum to remember ("number plus 5, times 3") and then supply you with a random number at login to calculate with . Might require a bit of mental arithmetic but lets face it, the plebs need the practise.
...and Computer Misuse Act 1(1) and European Convention on Cybercrime, Articles 2, 3 and 6.
IANAL but the UK law covering this is the Computer Misuse Act and more recently the European Convention on Cyber Crime.
As I read it BT are guilty under CMA 1(1) which relates to unauthorised access to any program or data held in a computer. Whether the information checking is done on the computer or the ADSL hub it is a violation. With regard to the Convention on Cybercrime they appear to be guilty under Articles 2, 3 and 6.
I hope someone sues their buttocks off.
...but where does Taco Bell fit in?
This is pretty damning.
Agreed. Maybe if they made Slashdot look like this we'd actually get some work done?
Auto-completing words when writing bullet lists. If you don't end the lines with full-stops, hitting Enter will auto-complete some random word instead of starting a new line. You're list of "My Favourite Animals" becomes:
catastrophicdogmaticfishfingermousetrap
Which, as you can imagine, is quite distressing.
The bit at the top of the Wikipedia article that says... It was one of the victorious powers of World War II[6] and a founding member of the United Nations.
Thanks for the (up-to-date, non-wiki) info