Unsurprisingly, it's the same in the UK, with one exception -- KitKat (cheap chocolate covered biscuit) is wrapped in foil, as the marketing has always tied in to this. One of the products with the GPS thing is a KitKat, the other as Aero, which is a normal plastic-wrapped cheap chocolate bar.
(Most of the good chocolate here is probably the same brands you can buy.)
The guy is relatively attractive for his age, is a Billionaire, is famous, has an accent, has a Jet, has a car that turns into a plane, has a car that turns into a boat, owns an island, and owns a spacecraft...
Well, I have the accent...
* Or near enough, for non-Brits.
(He also has 56 high (ish) speed trains, at least for another few weeks.)
There's a big difference between "store bought" and "processed"/"fast" foods.
I buy almost all my food at the nearest supermarket, but they have more kinds of fruits and vegetables than I can name, and it's hardly bad. It's not as nice as the luxury supermarket, or the health food / organic supermarket, which is reflected in the price, but it's fresh and healthy enough. However, about the most processed thing I buy is pre-cooked ham.
Admittedly, the supermarket doesn't have fresh seaweed (though they probably have dried seaweed, packed in a fancy box next to a "sushi kit" or whatever), but I don't think the lack of seaweed is what prevents the people stocking up on ready meals and chips from eating healthily.
(This is England, and previous discussions have shown that some basic stuff that I don't think of particularly "processed", like canned tomatoes or fresh bread, contain added sugar and salt in the US. Government and consumer pressure prevents that here.)
- English think everything tastes better with malt vinegar on it.
Speaking as an Englishman, that's really only chips (and possibly battered fish). I propose instead: - English think everything tastes better with nothing added to it. (Herbs and spices? What're they?)
How important is Sourceforge, really? Aren't all the cool guys on GitHub by now?
It's important that the content remains, if nothing else.
At my current job, at least three times when I've looked at the internal documentation for a piece of software it's started with "check out from CVS on SourceForge [here]". This is niche scientific data/web stuff. The code was probably put on SF thinking that would be stable, and a suitable place to share it from, after the funding for the project ran out.
(NB none of these are our projects. We're one of the larger organisations in the field, we've been around for 250 years and expect to last at least another 250. That's not the case for everyone, though.)
The code is here. Get a domain and some hosting, post some interesting stories. If you edit the summaries, and avoid flamebait articles, people might look!
I grew up in a rural-ish bit of England, and there were occasional power cuts -- perhaps every 6 months or so. The natural gas never failed -- the electronic ignition for the gas cooker wouldn't work, but it could easily be lit with a match. A bland roast dinner can still be made in the dark.
Don't you have natural gas supplied by pipe in the US? That's the normal way it's supplied in the UK, many buildings (including houses) use it for heating and cooking. Probably the majority.
It's pretty common in the rest of Europe too. Prices go up every year when Russia reduces the supply...
I've had the "pat down", which was far from it's name -- it's much closer to a "rub up". I didn't like it -- few people have rubbed their fingers around my scrotum, and I certainly wasn't expecting the TSA screener to when I "consented" to the search.
However, not being an American, and being on my way out of the country, I had no choice.
I didn't bother writing a letter. Should I? (Would a letter from a British person be ignored?) If so, where to?
(In Europe, the most invasive search I've had is literally a "patting down" of clothing to look for concealed weapons, or else having the metal detecting wand waved over me. Although normally I walk straight through having not set off the metal detector.)
American colleges require internships to help a student find careers, make connections and secure a job. If you've ever had an internship - no one in the company is making millions off of your labor - usually you're nothing more than a gopher or paperwork bitch.
That's crap if it's true -- we have placement students at my workplace, and they have to do "real work" (on my team, they do second-line support and have a small project assigned to them in-between (infrequent) calls). The universities check, and if they thought the students were wasting their time they'd recommend next year's students work elsewhere.
I think you should really check if a neighbour is stealing your electricity or something -- 1-2 to 3-4kW is huge! Alternatively, buying a power meter might let you find what's eating your power, and replace it -- a new appliance could pay for itself within a year or two.
I make a normal effort to keep energy usage low -- I intend to turn off lights in rooms I'm not in (but often forget), buy energy efficient light bulbs, and feel I should unplug (or rather, switch off on the wall socket, since these are British sockets) unused stuff, but almost always forget the last one. The flat is rented, but most of the appliances are only a couple of years old, and are good quality.
According to the power usage meter the electricity company sent, my flat is using 190W right now.
Turning stuff off: - My desktop was using 40W. - The amplifier (which wasn't playing anything), 5W - This laptop (finished charging), 20W - Flatmate's laptop (switched off, finished charging) 15W - Unplugging my flatmates switched-off finished-charging laptop, 110W. - Lights in this room, 30W - Turned off desktop and standby monitor, 20W (!) - Flatmate's turned off desktop and standby monitor, 22W (!) - Wireless router, 6W - The lighting circuits at the breaker box, 0W (good!) - Breaker "kitchen sockets", 16W (I think that's the clock on the oven) - I think the fridge/freezer must have been cold enough to not be running, since turning them off made no difference. They should use about 20W on average over a year.
The meter now reads 16W.
(Switching back on what actually needs to be on, I'm back up to 130W, and I've realised the remaining 16W is a Raspberry Pi, an alarm clock, and a phone charger with no phone attached.)
My mum's a teacher in a British school (like the article). They've just this month opened a new building, with all-new classrooms and IT equipment. She says the best improvement over what they had before is new (Windows) laptops and correctly set up docking stations on the teacher's desk in every room -- connecting to the projector, a real keyboard/mouse, the interactive whiteboard, and the network, is done instantly. (Most classrooms have had an interactive whiteboard for years now, teachers love them. The main complaint seems to be the usual IT bureaucracy: tiny quota for email, laptop expected to be used while at home not working properly on the home network, etc.)
She teaches at a secondary school (age 11/12 to 15/16).
They're based in the UK, however, so your card will show a "foreign transaction fee" if you're in the US.
They seem cheap (but it's years since I last looked at this stuff), but it's a bit annoying that they don't seem to have an option to charge me (in the UK) in pounds.
I've just moved house in London, and the new place can't get cable broadband, only ADSL. We've gone from 60Mbit/s down, 3Mbit/s up, to 13Mbit/s down, something (1?) up. (There was an option of 100 down, 5 up at the old place, but it was twice the price, so we didn't bother with it.)
It's not the end of the world, and the other things about the new place (location, cost etc) make up for it. But it's going to be more annoying -- I'm going to have to go back to checking if my flatmate is gaming before starting a large download, and uploading photographs is going to take 3 times longer.
This company: https://hyperoptic.com/web/guest/home is doing fibre-to-the-building in the UK, but they're just starting out and don't seem to have many buildings yet. I'll sign up as soon as they do!
A malware attack targeted at 18 countries that cost unsuspecting users £15 every time they tried to open a ‘free’ app has been cut off by PhonepayPlus, the UK’s premium rate telephone services regulator. Sanctions imposed by the regulator’s Tribunal will see all money returned to UK consumers on top of a £50,000 fine imposed on the provider of the premium rate shortcodes that enabled the apps to fraudulently charge smartphone users.
none of this £27,850 of UK consumers’ money reached the fraudsters.
(The apps were "free" versions of popular apps, downloaded from alternative app stores -- not the Google one -- or websites.)
The method used to elect the London Assembly (local government for London, headed by the Mayor) has 14 members elected for a constituency, and 11 members without a constituency. Usually, the 14 constituency members are from the larger parties (or potentially running for a local issue), but some of the 11 are from general-issue minor parties, like the Green Party, with a small portion of votes across the whole city.
Also, Barney Frank only got 54% of the vote (bottom of page). What about the rest of the people in that district? One option is to increase the size of the district to cover a larger part of Massachusetts, and increase the number of representatives accordingly. Then, instead of having (say) 5 democrats each elected with 55% of the vote (giving the democrats 100% of the representation with 55% of the vote), we would have 2 democrats (55%) and 2 republicans (say, other 35%) and an independent for a local issue (remaining 10%). That's a fairer representation of the votes cast by the people.
Normal atmospheric pressure is about 100kPa, so that was clear to many of us anyway.
(For some reason they use millibars on the British weather forecasts (here), which is metric but not SI. 1000millibars === 100kPa. The weather today is 1023mb)
The biggest difference is the time travelled during the reaction time.
In 1.5s (standard reaction time), a car travelling at 85miles/hour travels 10 metres further than one travelling at 70miles/hour.
Once the brakes are applied, perhaps to avoid an obstacle, the car travelling at 85miles/hour will be travelling significantly faster than the 70miles/hour one when it hits the obstacle -- braking isn't linear, and the difference between hitting the obstacle at 5mph and, say, 40mph can be fatal)
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Unsurprisingly, it's the same in the UK, with one exception -- KitKat (cheap chocolate covered biscuit) is wrapped in foil, as the marketing has always tied in to this. One of the products with the GPS thing is a KitKat, the other as Aero, which is a normal plastic-wrapped cheap chocolate bar.
(Most of the good chocolate here is probably the same brands you can buy.)
The guy is relatively attractive for his age, is a Billionaire, is famous, has an accent, has a Jet, has a car that turns into a plane, has a car that turns into a boat, owns an island, and owns a spacecraft...
Well, I have the accent...
* Or near enough, for non-Brits.
(He also has 56 high (ish) speed trains, at least for another few weeks.)
It's the normal British spelling of artefact. No red squiggly line for me :-)
There's a big difference between "store bought" and "processed"/"fast" foods.
I buy almost all my food at the nearest supermarket, but they have more kinds of fruits and vegetables than I can name, and it's hardly bad. It's not as nice as the luxury supermarket, or the health food / organic supermarket, which is reflected in the price, but it's fresh and healthy enough. However, about the most processed thing I buy is pre-cooked ham.
Admittedly, the supermarket doesn't have fresh seaweed (though they probably have dried seaweed, packed in a fancy box next to a "sushi kit" or whatever), but I don't think the lack of seaweed is what prevents the people stocking up on ready meals and chips from eating healthily.
(This is England, and previous discussions have shown that some basic stuff that I don't think of particularly "processed", like canned tomatoes or fresh bread, contain added sugar and salt in the US. Government and consumer pressure prevents that here.)
- English think everything tastes better with malt vinegar on it.
Speaking as an Englishman, that's really only chips (and possibly battered fish). I propose instead:
- English think everything tastes better with nothing added to it.
(Herbs and spices? What're they?)
How important is Sourceforge, really? Aren't all the cool guys on GitHub by now?
It's important that the content remains, if nothing else.
At my current job, at least three times when I've looked at the internal documentation for a piece of software it's started with "check out from CVS on SourceForge [here]". This is niche scientific data/web stuff. The code was probably put on SF thinking that would be stable, and a suitable place to share it from, after the funding for the project ran out.
(NB none of these are our projects. We're one of the larger organisations in the field, we've been around for 250 years and expect to last at least another 250. That's not the case for everyone, though.)
Why do you need a kickstarter?
The code is here. Get a domain and some hosting, post some interesting stories. If you edit the summaries, and avoid flamebait articles, people might look!
I think that would be very unlikely.
I grew up in a rural-ish bit of England, and there were occasional power cuts -- perhaps every 6 months or so. The natural gas never failed -- the electronic ignition for the gas cooker wouldn't work, but it could easily be lit with a match. A bland roast dinner can still be made in the dark.
Don't you have natural gas supplied by pipe in the US? That's the normal way it's supplied in the UK, many buildings (including houses) use it for heating and cooking. Probably the majority.
It's pretty common in the rest of Europe too. Prices go up every year when Russia reduces the supply...
I've had the "pat down", which was far from it's name -- it's much closer to a "rub up". I didn't like it -- few people have rubbed their fingers around my scrotum, and I certainly wasn't expecting the TSA screener to when I "consented" to the search.
However, not being an American, and being on my way out of the country, I had no choice.
I didn't bother writing a letter. Should I? (Would a letter from a British person be ignored?) If so, where to?
(In Europe, the most invasive search I've had is literally a "patting down" of clothing to look for concealed weapons, or else having the metal detecting wand waved over me. Although normally I walk straight through having not set off the metal detector.)
Socialism means the workers control the means of production.
You seem to have got it mixed up with communism.
American colleges require internships to help a student find careers, make connections and secure a job. If you've ever had an internship - no one in the company is making millions off of your labor - usually you're nothing more than a gopher or paperwork bitch.
That's crap if it's true -- we have placement students at my workplace, and they have to do "real work" (on my team, they do second-line support and have a small project assigned to them in-between (infrequent) calls). The universities check, and if they thought the students were wasting their time they'd recommend next year's students work elsewhere.
"The rack for the supercomputer has been built using Lego under the guidance of Professor Cox's son James Cox (aged 6)."
Also "reached out" is a stupid phrase.
I think you should really check if a neighbour is stealing your electricity or something -- 1-2 to 3-4kW is huge! Alternatively, buying a power meter might let you find what's eating your power, and replace it -- a new appliance could pay for itself within a year or two.
I make a normal effort to keep energy usage low -- I intend to turn off lights in rooms I'm not in (but often forget), buy energy efficient light bulbs, and feel I should unplug (or rather, switch off on the wall socket, since these are British sockets) unused stuff, but almost always forget the last one. The flat is rented, but most of the appliances are only a couple of years old, and are good quality.
According to the power usage meter the electricity company sent, my flat is using 190W right now.
Turning stuff off:
- My desktop was using 40W.
- The amplifier (which wasn't playing anything), 5W
- This laptop (finished charging), 20W
- Flatmate's laptop (switched off, finished charging) 15W
- Unplugging my flatmates switched-off finished-charging laptop, 110W.
- Lights in this room, 30W
- Turned off desktop and standby monitor, 20W (!)
- Flatmate's turned off desktop and standby monitor, 22W (!)
- Wireless router, 6W
- The lighting circuits at the breaker box, 0W (good!)
- Breaker "kitchen sockets", 16W (I think that's the clock on the oven)
- I think the fridge/freezer must have been cold enough to not be running, since turning them off made no difference. They should use about 20W on average over a year.
The meter now reads 16W.
(Switching back on what actually needs to be on, I'm back up to 130W, and I've realised the remaining 16W is a Raspberry Pi, an alarm clock, and a phone charger with no phone attached.)
My mum's a teacher in a British school (like the article). They've just this month opened a new building, with all-new classrooms and IT equipment. She says the best improvement over what they had before is new (Windows) laptops and correctly set up docking stations on the teacher's desk in every room -- connecting to the projector, a real keyboard/mouse, the interactive whiteboard, and the network, is done instantly. (Most classrooms have had an interactive whiteboard for years now, teachers love them. The main complaint seems to be the usual IT bureaucracy: tiny quota for email, laptop expected to be used while at home not working properly on the home network, etc.)
She teaches at a secondary school (age 11/12 to 15/16).
You could host secondary DNS yourself.
Can anyone tell me: if this is done, what happens when either DNS server is down, from the point of view of the user?
They're based in the UK, however, so your card will show a "foreign transaction fee" if you're in the US.
They seem cheap (but it's years since I last looked at this stuff), but it's a bit annoying that they don't seem to have an option to charge me (in the UK) in pounds.
I've just moved house in London, and the new place can't get cable broadband, only ADSL. We've gone from 60Mbit/s down, 3Mbit/s up, to 13Mbit/s down, something (1?) up. (There was an option of 100 down, 5 up at the old place, but it was twice the price, so we didn't bother with it.)
It's not the end of the world, and the other things about the new place (location, cost etc) make up for it. But it's going to be more annoying -- I'm going to have to go back to checking if my flatmate is gaming before starting a large download, and uploading photographs is going to take 3 times longer.
This company: https://hyperoptic.com/web/guest/home is doing fibre-to-the-building in the UK, but they're just starting out and don't seem to have many buildings yet. I'll sign up as soon as they do!
It has some uses (see other replies), and it's OK if you have strong regulation of the service providers.
Example here, which was news here last week:
A malware attack targeted at 18 countries that cost unsuspecting users £15 every time they tried to open a ‘free’ app has been cut off by PhonepayPlus, the UK’s premium rate telephone services regulator. Sanctions imposed by the regulator’s Tribunal will see all money returned to UK consumers on top of a £50,000 fine imposed on the provider of the premium rate shortcodes that enabled the apps to fraudulently charge smartphone users.
none of this £27,850 of UK consumers’ money reached the fraudsters.
(The apps were "free" versions of popular apps, downloaded from alternative app stores -- not the Google one -- or websites.)
There are many variations of PR.
The method used to elect the London Assembly (local government for London, headed by the Mayor) has 14 members elected for a constituency, and 11 members without a constituency. Usually, the 14 constituency members are from the larger parties (or potentially running for a local issue), but some of the 11 are from general-issue minor parties, like the Green Party, with a small portion of votes across the whole city.
Also, Barney Frank only got 54% of the vote (bottom of page). What about the rest of the people in that district? One option is to increase the size of the district to cover a larger part of Massachusetts, and increase the number of representatives accordingly. Then, instead of having (say) 5 democrats each elected with 55% of the vote (giving the democrats 100% of the representation with 55% of the vote), we would have 2 democrats (55%) and 2 republicans (say, other 35%) and an independent for a local issue (remaining 10%). That's a fairer representation of the votes cast by the people.
The US system excludes far more than 5% -- it's essentially pointless to vote for anyone other than the two main parties.
That's not an argument against proportional representation.
That's an argument for the larger parties not to cave in to stupid demands from the coalition partner.
Normal atmospheric pressure is about 100kPa, so that was clear to many of us anyway.
(For some reason they use millibars on the British weather forecasts (here), which is metric but not SI. 1000millibars === 100kPa. The weather today is 1023mb)
A thrown ball is an expected event.
Red lights from cars ahead braking is an unplanned event, then you have your 0.8s.
My 1.5s is the standard figure for a surprise event.
The biggest difference is the time travelled during the reaction time.
In 1.5s (standard reaction time), a car travelling at 85miles/hour travels 10 metres further than one travelling at 70miles/hour.
Once the brakes are applied, perhaps to avoid an obstacle, the car travelling at 85miles/hour will be travelling significantly faster than the 70miles/hour one when it hits the obstacle -- braking isn't linear, and the difference between hitting the obstacle at 5mph and, say, 40mph can be fatal)