And I just signed a 2-year contract for 1G data, some minutes (can't remember) and lots of texts for £6/month. US$10?
Admittedly, it's an awkward deal -- it's really £12/month, with 50% rebated by sending in copies of my bill (about 6 times over the two years), so it takes some time on my part. But I've done it twice before now, and it works.
We get 5 weeks of vacation per year(not counting holidays). We can use it how we need to. I have had this my last 2 employers now and it makes sense. Whether you want to take off for Christmas, goof off or if you get the flu, to the company its all the same.
Where I work, I get six weeks of vacation per year (not counting holidays). I use it to go on holiday, or take a day off for my leisure.
If I'm ill, I don't go into work. If I'm ill for less than seven days I fill in a form. If it's longer than seven days, I have to have a note from a doctor (which is free).
So, basically, stay home, but keep working? Remember when sick days were to allow you to actually rest?
Like yesterday. A colleague phoned in sick, but we received an email from her a little later.
We told our manager, who emailed the sick colleague and reminded her that she should rest if she's ill (or otherwise follow medical advice). It's stupid to worry about work, or do any work, when that's likely to delay your return to work.
I used to run my own email server, when I was 18. I ran it for a couple of years, but migrated to Google Apps as soon as the free version was launched. I no longer have to worry if my server goes offline, or if there are security updates, or updates to spam filters, or my email being marked as spam, or all the rest.
Since I'm using my own domain, if a better service comes along I can migrate.
It says both Canada and the UK replaced notes with coins at a ratio of 1:1.6 to make up for people keeping them (in jars, pockets etc), which increases the initial cost but makes extra money from seigniorage.
I was on holiday in the US (as a child) when one of the $1 coins was introduced, and a relative gave me about $30 worth -- I'm not sure why -- which I never spent. I went back last year, and took them along to spend. I obviously didn't want to carry them all at once, but didn't want them left-over at the end of the trip, so I took a few to spend each day. I sometimes had trouble -- people didn't want to accept them, or thought (given my accent) they were foreign. I put most of them in machines in the end, but was still surprised to find machines that didn't accept them.
Unless you run a business, I think getting coins from banks is odd (a few people have commented about doing that). I've never withdrawn coins from a bank; I get coins in change, almost always in amounts less than £5. Getting more than £5 in coins as change comes with an apology, and usually an effort to increase the change due to £10 to avoid it, I wouldn't do it voluntarily!
I think that's irrelevant. Some people do keep a change jar, but it's only the low-value coins -- exactly the same as many Americans who presumably already have a jar of 25 (or less) coins.
A coin worth £1 has actual value, and a jar of them is worth a *lot*. Just this many (hardly a handful) looks like £16, i.e. US$25. It's unusual, but no-one would mind you paying for something with 16 £1 coins.
Irish, Maltese and Cypriot pounds were worth more than €1.
(Not sure about those currencies, but the British pound had £1 and £2 coins when the Euro was introduced, which were worth something like €1.60 and €3.20 at the time.)
Several I used in China use plastic coins with an embedded RFID chip. They worked quite nicely -- I think the coin slot on the exit gates was more obvious to tourists holding a plastic coin than the ticket-shaped slot on the older systems with both one-use and multi-use tickets.
British coins are very easy to tell apart -- low-value (½p, discontinued), 1p and 2p are brown with plain edges, mid value coins are silver: 5p and 10p are thin and have milled edges, 20p and 50p are heptagonal with plain edges; £1 and £2 are gold-coloured and thick.
And is your life really so drab that you ACTUALLY give a rats ass about the quality of evidence for minimum price of drinks in countries that you don't even live in?
Not for more than a few seconds. I live in England. Anyway, I was just covering what was on Facebook on that day, not generally.
Wouldn't you be really happier without all that garbage do deal with?
I'd probably be happier without argumentative crap on Slashdot, but I still read it and sometimes reply to it...
We've been looking at work, but not for 6 months or so due to another project taking priority. At the moment we use MySQL and a commercial database, and another part of the organisation uses MS SQL Server. That's clearly not optimal. The software using MySQL is the least-complicated stuff, so it's the easiest to switch. We're going to stop using the commercial database (cost, generally unsatisfactory). I think we should move to Postgres, but the rest of my team either aren't bothered, have bigger worries, or are too-scared of change.
When I get time I need to do a proper comparison between SQL Server and Postgres (and MySQL), but that takes quite some time to do properly (i.e. trying to set appropriate configuration settings for each system), and frankly I don't find it very interesting.
My wife has an FB account and all they do is post bizarre stuff on her wall and make her feel uncomfortable. I cannot imagine why anyone would want anything to do with FB.
Some of us don't have your wife on Facebook...
Today, I was reminded about an invitation I'd received to a birthday party (the host noticed I hadn't responded), and after an enquiry from another invitee a couple of people have organised sharing a car to the house.
A few others are debating the quality of the evidence for putting a minimum price on alcoholic drinks in England and Wales.
My own profile doesn't have much recent activity: just a couple of "check-ins" from friends who were at the same places I was at, and me saying which party I'm going to on New Year's Eve.
It's hardly critical stuff, and apart from the useful way to manage events I wouldn't really miss it if it went, but that doesn't make it useless or pointless.
The ball mice I used (1990s onwards) had two optical sensors. The ball touched two perpendicular wheels (horizontal and vertical), which had wheels with tiny holes in on the other end. The wheel was between a light (or IR) sensor and emitter, so I assume it detected the frequency of the flashing to know how fast the mouse was moving.
Sorry to come over as pissed, but it aggravates the hell out of me that projects like these [j1nx.nl] gets ignored when they raise money to create a really fully open system and there is so much non news posted about the RPI. I find these kind of projects a lot more interesting for another RPI add on.
Well, now that the Charles River is, I believe, the cleanest water way in an urban city in the world, then other smells start to get noticed more.
I'm not sure about that. It's certainly very much improved, according to this article, but I don't see a claim that it's now the cleanest -- it has a B+ rating, so there's room for further improvement.
This article lists the Thames, but I don't believe that (I live in London). It's not bad, and this suggests a lot has improved (and I've seen some newly-created wetland areas and they do indeed have lots of birds etc). But it still gets sewage dumped into it after heavy rain.
I think the most likely.int you've used (probably linked to from Slashdot) is esa.int, the European Space Agency. (In Europe, we sometimes pronounce that "ay-sa").
What freedom would that be, exactly? The right not to be tracked, or to go where you please without having to carry an ID? You have that right... and yet you are still required to bring your RFID card to the office, and you still need an ID to pick up a parcel at the post office.
I don't. If your country has already lost those rights, that doesn't mean they shouldn't be regained, or that it's time to give up.
I fail to see what principle of freedom or privacy is violated by the requirement to carry an ID card (with or without a chip) at school.
"The right not to be tracked, or to go where you please without having to carry an ID."
You're acting out of fear, and trying to solve a social problem with cheap technology rather than fixing expensive underlying problems.
Most paedophiles aren't random strangers, but people known to the child. They probably have access to a pass (take it from son/nephew/etc), or can just follow someone into the building. My school had occasional problems with theft, as -- even though we had code-locks -- thieves would just follow a child (and it wasn't the responsibility of an 11 year old to challenge the thief).
Officially, the school I went to was Christian, but the students reflected the general make-up of the city. A bit under half were (parents were) either Hindu or Muslim, and the rest were mostly Christian or atheist, depending how much thought they put into answering the question. When I attended (10 years ago) I remember the phrase "Christian ethos", I think it was on the sign on the building, but looking at the prospectus now the first mention of religion is at the bottom of the last page, and starts with "...School was founded with Christian principles". (Surveys have shown that many, perhaps most, British people like the tradition of religion, but that's quite enough, thank-you very much.)
There are some religious schools that are partly or entirely funded by religious organisations, and only accept pupils whose parents follow the religion. Those are where I suspect there's more bullying. I don't think intellect could make much difference, but sexuality (or perception of it) definitely does.
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Visual Basic had:
On Error Resume Next
I last typed that when I was about 13...
The documentation shows a couple of valid uses for it.
And I just signed a 2-year contract for 1G data, some minutes (can't remember) and lots of texts for £6/month. US$10?
Admittedly, it's an awkward deal -- it's really £12/month, with 50% rebated by sending in copies of my bill (about 6 times over the two years), so it takes some time on my part. But I've done it twice before now, and it works.
We get 5 weeks of vacation per year(not counting holidays). We can use it how we need to. I have had this my last 2 employers now and it makes sense. Whether you want to take off for Christmas, goof off or if you get the flu, to the company its all the same.
Where I work, I get six weeks of vacation per year (not counting holidays). I use it to go on holiday, or take a day off for my leisure.
If I'm ill, I don't go into work. If I'm ill for less than seven days I fill in a form. If it's longer than seven days, I have to have a note from a doctor (which is free).
I get paid either way.
So, basically, stay home, but keep working? Remember when sick days were to allow you to actually rest?
Like yesterday. A colleague phoned in sick, but we received an email from her a little later.
We told our manager, who emailed the sick colleague and reminded her that she should rest if she's ill (or otherwise follow medical advice). It's stupid to worry about work, or do any work, when that's likely to delay your return to work.
Of course, this wasn't in America.
That's a significant investment in time.
I used to run my own email server, when I was 18. I ran it for a couple of years, but migrated to Google Apps as soon as the free version was launched. I no longer have to worry if my server goes offline, or if there are security updates, or updates to spam filters, or my email being marked as spam, or all the rest.
Since I'm using my own domain, if a better service comes along I can migrate.
I've now read the document someone else linked to: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11281.pdf
It says both Canada and the UK replaced notes with coins at a ratio of 1:1.6 to make up for people keeping them (in jars, pockets etc), which increases the initial cost but makes extra money from seigniorage.
I was on holiday in the US (as a child) when one of the $1 coins was introduced, and a relative gave me about $30 worth -- I'm not sure why -- which I never spent. I went back last year, and took them along to spend. I obviously didn't want to carry them all at once, but didn't want them left-over at the end of the trip, so I took a few to spend each day. I sometimes had trouble -- people didn't want to accept them, or thought (given my accent) they were foreign. I put most of them in machines in the end, but was still surprised to find machines that didn't accept them.
Unless you run a business, I think getting coins from banks is odd (a few people have commented about doing that). I've never withdrawn coins from a bank; I get coins in change, almost always in amounts less than £5. Getting more than £5 in coins as change comes with an apology, and usually an effort to increase the change due to £10 to avoid it, I wouldn't do it voluntarily!
I think that's irrelevant. Some people do keep a change jar, but it's only the low-value coins -- exactly the same as many Americans who presumably already have a jar of 25 (or less) coins.
A coin worth £1 has actual value, and a jar of them is worth a *lot*. Just this many (hardly a handful) looks like £16, i.e. US$25. It's unusual, but no-one would mind you paying for something with 16 £1 coins.
Irish, Maltese and Cypriot pounds were worth more than €1.
(Not sure about those currencies, but the British pound had £1 and £2 coins when the Euro was introduced, which were worth something like €1.60 and €3.20 at the time.)
That's why all new transit systems use cards.
Several I used in China use plastic coins with an embedded RFID chip. They worked quite nicely -- I think the coin slot on the exit gates was more obvious to tourists holding a plastic coin than the ticket-shaped slot on the older systems with both one-use and multi-use tickets.
The British (technically, English) £1 note was abandoned before I was born, but here's an article from the time: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2012/nov/13/pound-note-replaced-coin-1984
And here's another: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/12/newsid_2518000/2518637.stm
British coins are very easy to tell apart -- low-value (½p, discontinued), 1p and 2p are brown with plain edges, mid value coins are silver: 5p and 10p are thin and have milled edges, 20p and 50p are heptagonal with plain edges; £1 and £2 are gold-coloured and thick.
And is your life really so drab that you ACTUALLY give a rats ass about the quality of evidence for minimum price of drinks in countries that you don't even live in?
Not for more than a few seconds. I live in England. Anyway, I was just covering what was on Facebook on that day, not generally.
Wouldn't you be really happier without all that garbage do deal with?
I'd probably be happier without argumentative crap on Slashdot, but I still read it and sometimes reply to it...
Those lists are 7 years old. Does anyone have a more up-to-date list?
The last time I looked, Postgres was indeed slow at select count(*) from x, but even that's now been fixed: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Counting
We've been looking at work, but not for 6 months or so due to another project taking priority. At the moment we use MySQL and a commercial database, and another part of the organisation uses MS SQL Server. That's clearly not optimal. The software using MySQL is the least-complicated stuff, so it's the easiest to switch. We're going to stop using the commercial database (cost, generally unsatisfactory). I think we should move to Postgres, but the rest of my team either aren't bothered, have bigger worries, or are too-scared of change.
When I get time I need to do a proper comparison between SQL Server and Postgres (and MySQL), but that takes quite some time to do properly (i.e. trying to set appropriate configuration settings for each system), and frankly I don't find it very interesting.
The server is down at the moment, but here's a Google search for the document -- the UK's Open source software options / recommendations / something document.
MySQL and Postgresql are both listed, along with some big users.
Another example (not listed) is Ordnance Survey, the UK's National Mapping Agency (presentation).
My wife has an FB account and all they do is post bizarre stuff on her wall and make her feel uncomfortable. I cannot imagine why anyone would want anything to do with FB.
Some of us don't have your wife on Facebook...
Today, I was reminded about an invitation I'd received to a birthday party (the host noticed I hadn't responded), and after an enquiry from another invitee a couple of people have organised sharing a car to the house.
Some friends are tracking how many hits their parody of Gangnam Style has (23,064 so far).
A few others are debating the quality of the evidence for putting a minimum price on alcoholic drinks in England and Wales.
My own profile doesn't have much recent activity: just a couple of "check-ins" from friends who were at the same places I was at, and me saying which party I'm going to on New Year's Eve.
It's hardly critical stuff, and apart from the useful way to manage events I wouldn't really miss it if it went, but that doesn't make it useless or pointless.
The ball mice I used (1990s onwards) had two optical sensors. The ball touched two perpendicular wheels (horizontal and vertical), which had wheels with tiny holes in on the other end. The wheel was between a light (or IR) sensor and emitter, so I assume it detected the frequency of the flashing to know how fast the mouse was moving.
Sorry to come over as pissed, but it aggravates the hell out of me that projects like these [j1nx.nl] gets ignored when they raise money to create a really fully open system and there is so much non news posted about the RPI. I find these kind of projects a lot more interesting for another RPI add on.
http://slashdot.org/~SilenceBE/submissions
Hmm, looks blank. Can you complain?
I expect they use stolen phones -- a phone stolen that day, or the day before, if necessary -- so none of what you proposed will work.
Well, now that the Charles River is, I believe, the cleanest water way in an urban city in the world, then other smells start to get noticed more.
I'm not sure about that. It's certainly very much improved, according to this article, but I don't see a claim that it's now the cleanest -- it has a B+ rating, so there's room for further improvement.
This article lists the Thames, but I don't believe that (I live in London). It's not bad, and this suggests a lot has improved (and I've seen some newly-created wetland areas and they do indeed have lots of birds etc). But it still gets sewage dumped into it after heavy rain.
I think the most likely .int you've used (probably linked to from Slashdot) is esa.int, the European Space Agency. (In Europe, we sometimes pronounce that "ay-sa").
http://www.esa.int/
Indeed, ws has an A record.
dig -t A ws.
; > DiG 9.8.1-P1 > -t A ws. ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER
http://ws/ should work (though it's only a redirect), so try typing things like ws or ws. in your address bar.
No, that list includes 18 countries. The 10 that are eastern are:
Serbia
Montenegro
Croatia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Macedonia (Former Yugoslav Republic of)
Albania
Belarus
Moldova
Russia
Ukraine
(The first few would often be called southeastern.)
What freedom would that be, exactly? The right not to be tracked, or to go where you please without having to carry an ID? You have that right... and yet you are still required to bring your RFID card to the office, and you still need an ID to pick up a parcel at the post office.
I don't. If your country has already lost those rights, that doesn't mean they shouldn't be regained, or that it's time to give up.
I fail to see what principle of freedom or privacy is violated by the requirement to carry an ID card (with or without a chip) at school.
"The right not to be tracked, or to go where you please without having to carry an ID."
You're acting out of fear, and trying to solve a social problem with cheap technology rather than fixing expensive underlying problems.
Most paedophiles aren't random strangers, but people known to the child. They probably have access to a pass (take it from son/nephew/etc), or can just follow someone into the building. My school had occasional problems with theft, as -- even though we had code-locks -- thieves would just follow a child (and it wasn't the responsibility of an 11 year old to challenge the thief).
Officially, the school I went to was Christian, but the students reflected the general make-up of the city. A bit under half were (parents were) either Hindu or Muslim, and the rest were mostly Christian or atheist, depending how much thought they put into answering the question. When I attended (10 years ago) I remember the phrase "Christian ethos", I think it was on the sign on the building, but looking at the prospectus now the first mention of religion is at the bottom of the last page, and starts with "...School was founded with Christian principles". (Surveys have shown that many, perhaps most, British people like the tradition of religion, but that's quite enough, thank-you very much.)
There are some religious schools that are partly or entirely funded by religious organisations, and only accept pupils whose parents follow the religion. Those are where I suspect there's more bullying. I don't think intellect could make much difference, but sexuality (or perception of it) definitely does.