Since no one else reads the article, I'll have to explain: it has many incorrect/missing words. It's as if it was written on a phone keyboard, with word completion, or something. "unless I have specific reason to think I’ll never a full-blown computer" "most iPads cost only a few dollars" "Or at least I was at firs–at this point"
It sounds like what the author appreciates is decent battery life and an efficient small-screen-friendly window manager.
I received the email regarding this class action and, well, it's stupid. people knew how much they paid and what they were paying for and agreed to it. this whole thing is unnecessary.
From my perspective, it's dishonest when a ticket prices is advertised as £25, but there are so many fees that to actually get a ticket you end up paying £32.50.
Ticketmaster pay the venue for an exclusivity deal, which means the only option is to buy tickets from Ticketmaster, or the venue itself (which is often very impractical, or almost impossible). The fees make no sense -- buying four tickets often means paying four postage fees, four service fees and four booking fees.
Here's an article in a British newspaper complaining about it. I'm not sure if any rules or laws have been changed since 2009, I don't think so.
Someone with the reading comprehension of a eight year old would note that article quoted is by a US government agency for US residents. Hence, the time is quoted in the relevant zones. So, until you graduate elementary school, piss off.
So what?
There was another eclipse earlier this year. This article is from the BBC, which is funded by British people. The time given was GMT, even though the UK was using BST (GMT+0100) during the summer. The equivalence is given: In the UK, observers were able to view the eclipse from 2100 BST (2000 GMT). It's usual for articles containing time-sensitive events in another country to give the timezone, at least for the first mention, e.g. "The explosion occurred at 1234 local time (1034 GMT, 1134 BST)." UK-centric articles expected to be of wider interest often give the timezone too: "The result will be announced at 1234 GMT" (winter) or "...at 1234 BST (1134 GMT)" (summer).
"The action begins around 0345 AKST (1245 UTC)" is all that was required (noting that Alaska is the only bit of USA that gets to see the full eclipse).
I've never tried it, but it might be easy to add the HTML5 geolocation thing as a default: http://html5demos.com/geo .
I'm not sure if there's an easy way to get the timezone for a lat+long though. Some ideas here. I've heard of geonames.org (related to my job), but never used it.
Your USPS prices are cheap. 44 for a first class letter, anywhere in the USA.
I pay 36p = 56 for a similar service (2-3 days) just in the UK. It's 68p = $1.06 for a letter to anywhere in Europe (2-5 days). (It's 46p = 72 for usually next day service within the UK. That's not guaranteed, that costs a lot more.)
And it is fairly typical that everyone in the area gives the volunteers leeway to do their service. Or do you think non-volunteers can suddenly drop their job and rush out to put out a fire?
There's something wrong with a society if an employer is unwilling to volunteer his employees' time in an emergency. Within reason, most employees would probably try and make up the time anyway.
There's clearly a difference between being an official volunteer -- who might be telephoned and need to travel somewhere -- and a bystander. But if, for example, a speeding car crashes into the children's playground my office window overlooks, I'll have no hesitation in dropping what I'm doing to try and help.
A bystander in the right place at the right time becomes a volunteer.
I have received a single piece of mail in the past 13 years which was addressed to me other than a bill.
That's incredible, though I doubt it's true. What about a new credit/debit card? The first bank statement, before you ask for electronic statements? The annual statement for an account you can't be bothered to enable electronic banking for? A letter from the local government? Junk mail? An annual newsletter from a society, university or political pressure group you belong to?
And no personal mail? No birthday cards from a relative, postcards from your parents or friends who are on holiday? No thank-you letters from anyone, or wedding (or funeral) invitations?
You might get £35k (basic) in IT in a bank in London, with anything up to 100% bonus. You get to help screw up the economy, too. Don't worry -- after 2-3 years you'll have lost your morals.
Or similar money (and bonus) working in IT for a software company writing code for banks.
I know someone who's making nearer (over?) £120k as a contractor for banks writing Android apps, but he spent a couple of years writing apps himself (earning a decent amount selling them) before he had the reputation to do that.
What are the hours and stress like in that job though?
Rhetorical, or not?
A couple of my friends (well, more friends-of-friends) from my year went on to do that. That was when I stopped seeing them. "Let's meet for drinks after work in central London!" They rarely turned up before 10pm, and even then sometimes went back to work after an hour or two. Got to get their bonus, you see.
One of my closer friends -- I lived with this guy for two years! -- is working for a hedge fund. £200k, I think, probably with a bonus. He was never particularly social, but in the last three years I've seen him about three times. Last time, he noticed I'd cycled straight from work and asked if I thought it was quicker than taking the metro. I said it was similar, but it was nice to avoid the crowds and kept me fit. He said "but the train's always pretty empty at 5:45am"...
There is a group, Republic, trying to make the UK a republic. I considered joining around the time of Prince Whatsit's wedding.
Economically, it would be nice if we didn't have to pay for the royal family. Politically, it would be nice if we could elect a head of state. Culturally, it would be nice to look round our castles and palaces, and have the art and so on in a national museum.
But, there are much, much bigger economic, political and cultural problems. I gave some extra money to Liberty instead.
It looked interesting, but I lost interest when I saw the salary -- slightly less than what I have already, working for a different bit of government. And GCHQ is in Cheltenham.
But have you visited the UK? I live here, so it's what I'm used to, but when visiting a couple of cities in the US recently I felt more "watched" and regulated. There were many signs with lists of local laws, with violations incurring big fines. There were *more* public (government/city/whatever) CCTV cameras. (I don't know about private ones, in shops and so on -- they didn't catch my eye.) The government buildings were built like fortresses, and I had my ID scanned and bag x-rayed when visiting museums. When I tried to leave, a government employee handled my genitals.
I don't want an argument about which country is better -- they both need improvements in this respect. But I'd like to know how you felt watched (or similar) when you visited the UK.
Incidentally, HTML5 might (I'm not sure, the spec looks complicated and there's debate and what's happening) solve this, by allowing a date and time provided with a timezone to be converted into local time.
Writing -0700 (or whatever) would be better than some acronym that's more-or-less meaningless to anyone outside North America. I think New York is usually 5 hours behind here, but has different DST begin/end times, and I can never remember if "PST" is another two, three or four hours further west.
Penumbral Eclipse Begins: 11:33:32 UT Partial Eclipse Begins: 12:45:42 UT Total Eclipse Begins: 14:06:16 UT Greatest Eclipse: 14:31:49 UT Total Eclipse Ends: 14:57:24 UT Partial Eclipse Ends: 16:17:58 UT Penumbral Eclipse Ends: 17:30:00 UT
Sunset here will be at 15:52... if it's not cloudy, it's probably worth having a look.
They don't care if you have three octogenarian boyfriends that you go to BDSM nights with, so long as you don't care if people know, i.e. can't be blackmailed with the information.
Maybe, though figures tend to indicate these days that the UK public sector is paid roughly equally to the private sector, and still (even with proposed changes) gives access to far better pensions.
One of the reasons I have no sympathy with those going on strike.
I went on strike, and I certainly get paid less than in the private sector. I like contributing to the country (science research), but there's a limit.
With the current offer I'll essentially lose about £1000 pa (increased pension contributions), and that's after 24 months of flat pay.
The problem is private pensions are shit, and we shouldn't have a race to the bottom. We should improve private pensions.
Where did you go to school because that sounds *REALLY* familiar.
I think similar things happened everywhere, no?
I was a victim of someone else's "hack" twice at secondary school, although on PCs. The first time it was a Word document made to look like the login dialogue, the second time a very small VB application.
I helped my dad set up a new network at his school one summer (well, mostly messed about -- they had internet!). I was told that school's administrator password, "changeme", which it turned out was the default password that the local educational IT supplier used. It worked well at my school for over a year -- I knew enough not to change anything that would be noticed, but I increased my quota. It lasted until I told a friend, who promptly changed the password...
I was "computer monitor" for a while. I think I started in year 3 (!), probably because my dad was the IT teacher at the secondary school. Being one of the few lockable, window-free rooms, I was allowed to wheel the computers into/out of the toilets (two in the boys', two in the girls'.)
I once found a "games" disc for the RM Nimbus 186, and after trying it was "banned" from using the computer until the next time the teacher needed it, and realised she'd forgotten how to set it up. Another time one of the "naughty boys" was using the computer. He called over the teacher, who called me over, and demonstrated that typing "S-H-I-T" brought up the help. I somehow got the blame for that, I don't remember how.
I remember in year four showing the teacher that it wasn't necessary to press "return" at the end of every line in the word processor. And, if you didn't, then the text rewrapped automatically if you added a word! Amazing.
The school had an Acorn 3010, but only two or three children knew how to use it, and none of the teachers. I was never asked to wheel it into a classroom. I think it was bought with Tesco Computers for Schools vouchers. About once a year I'd be asked to use it with a "visitor", who would watch me and take notes. I didn't realise it then, but I think they were probably OFSTED inspectors.
It depends on the city. Remember that we don't have national laws about stuff like this, and there are conservatives everywhere that define "conservation" as "keeping my money in my wallet". Where specifically did you visit?
Atlanta and New Orleans.
There aren't national laws here either, but the EU has imposed a landfill tax, which has a similar effect. Almost everywhere recycles paper, cardboard, glass, plastic containers and metal containers from the kerb, or bins in the street. Things like compostables, batteries, old oil, textiles, metal/plastic non-containers, aerosols etc may be collected with that, or might need to be taken somewhere else (or be collected on request). Same with old electronics, furniture, fluorescent lights, etc.
90% of my "landfill" waste is plastic films or bags, wine corks, little bits of scrap wood, used tissues, broken stuff etc. There are four of us in the house, and we only bother to empty the landfill bin every two or three weeks.
How much recycling bins you see is very regional, so it's hard what to make of your report without knowing where you went.
Atlanta and New Orleans.
Here in the UK recycling bins aren't ubiquitous, but I generally find one before I get home (even if it's someone's kerbside box).
I liked a German ICE (high speed) train I took. I'd drunk a bottle of wine with some friends. There were some small cupboards labelled "Papier" "Plastik" "Glas" "Restmüll" (with pictures). The "Glas" one contained a very small bottle rack:-)
Does that link work for you? I get a 404 when I click "Download this torrent", I'm wondering if my ISP has done something awful since I last tried using TPB...
Where I am in London, we are supplied with 3 bins, compostables (which takes pretty much any organic matter apart from raw meat and bones)
Check that on your council's website. Mine take all food waste, including raw and cooked meat, fish and dairy products, bones and all.
The only things that go into landfill are cling film, scrunchy plastic bags (except carrier bags, which I take back to Tesco)... wine corks... erm... really dirty/foody paper.
If I pay someone to haul all of it away to a properly managed landfill, that is my right.
I am internalizing my costs.
And the better you sort your waste, the less they will charge.
Round here, many companies will take away (usually commercial) waste. They charge loads if you don't sort it, less if you do. More if you have some hazardous waste, loads more if it's mixed in with other waste. They will pay you if you have lots of sorted, recyclable waste.
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Conglomeration.
FTFY.
Since no one else reads the article, I'll have to explain: it has many incorrect/missing words. It's as if it was written on a phone keyboard, with word completion, or something. "unless I have specific reason to think I’ll never a full-blown computer" "most iPads cost only a few dollars" "Or at least I was at firs–at this point"
It sounds like what the author appreciates is decent battery life and an efficient small-screen-friendly window manager.
Is there no terminal and SSH client for the iPad2? That would be a pretty basic omission.
(That's the first thing I installed on my Android phone. Very occasionally I used a Java SSH client on my old non-smart phone.)
I received the email regarding this class action and, well, it's stupid. people knew how much they paid and what they were paying for and agreed to it. this whole thing is unnecessary.
From my perspective, it's dishonest when a ticket prices is advertised as £25, but there are so many fees that to actually get a ticket you end up paying £32.50.
Ticketmaster pay the venue for an exclusivity deal, which means the only option is to buy tickets from Ticketmaster, or the venue itself (which is often very impractical, or almost impossible). The fees make no sense -- buying four tickets often means paying four postage fees, four service fees and four booking fees.
Here's an article in a British newspaper complaining about it. I'm not sure if any rules or laws have been changed since 2009, I don't think so.
Someone with the reading comprehension of a eight year old would note that article quoted is by a US government agency for US residents. Hence, the time is quoted in the relevant zones. So, until you graduate elementary school, piss off.
So what?
There was another eclipse earlier this year. This article is from the BBC, which is funded by British people. The time given was GMT, even though the UK was using BST (GMT+0100) during the summer. The equivalence is given: In the UK, observers were able to view the eclipse from 2100 BST (2000 GMT). It's usual for articles containing time-sensitive events in another country to give the timezone, at least for the first mention, e.g. "The explosion occurred at 1234 local time (1034 GMT, 1134 BST)." UK-centric articles expected to be of wider interest often give the timezone too: "The result will be announced at 1234 GMT" (winter) or "...at 1234 BST (1134 GMT)" (summer).
"The action begins around 0345 AKST (1245 UTC)" is all that was required (noting that Alaska is the only bit of USA that gets to see the full eclipse).
Lose the xenophobia, please.
That's useful, thanks.
There's a Javascript method to retrieve the timezone of the user's PC: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_gettimezoneoffset.asp
I've never tried it, but it might be easy to add the HTML5 geolocation thing as a default: http://html5demos.com/geo .
I'm not sure if there's an easy way to get the timezone for a lat+long though. Some ideas here. I've heard of geonames.org (related to my job), but never used it.
Your USPS prices are cheap. 44 for a first class letter, anywhere in the USA.
I pay 36p = 56 for a similar service (2-3 days) just in the UK. It's 68p = $1.06 for a letter to anywhere in Europe (2-5 days).
(It's 46p = 72 for usually next day service within the UK. That's not guaranteed, that costs a lot more.)
And it is fairly typical that everyone in the area gives the volunteers leeway to do their service. Or do you think non-volunteers can suddenly drop their job and rush out to put out a fire?
There's something wrong with a society if an employer is unwilling to volunteer his employees' time in an emergency. Within reason, most employees would probably try and make up the time anyway.
There's clearly a difference between being an official volunteer -- who might be telephoned and need to travel somewhere -- and a bystander. But if, for example, a speeding car crashes into the children's playground my office window overlooks, I'll have no hesitation in dropping what I'm doing to try and help.
A bystander in the right place at the right time becomes a volunteer.
I have received a single piece of mail in the past 13 years which was addressed to me other than a bill.
That's incredible, though I doubt it's true. What about a new credit/debit card? The first bank statement, before you ask for electronic statements? The annual statement for an account you can't be bothered to enable electronic banking for? A letter from the local government? Junk mail? An annual newsletter from a society, university or political pressure group you belong to?
And no personal mail? No birthday cards from a relative, postcards from your parents or friends who are on holiday? No thank-you letters from anyone, or wedding (or funeral) invitations?
You might get £35k (basic) in IT in a bank in London, with anything up to 100% bonus. You get to help screw up the economy, too. Don't worry -- after 2-3 years you'll have lost your morals.
Or similar money (and bonus) working in IT for a software company writing code for banks.
I know someone who's making nearer (over?) £120k as a contractor for banks writing Android apps, but he spent a couple of years writing apps himself (earning a decent amount selling them) before he had the reputation to do that.
What are the hours and stress like in that job though?
Rhetorical, or not?
A couple of my friends (well, more friends-of-friends) from my year went on to do that. That was when I stopped seeing them. "Let's meet for drinks after work in central London!" They rarely turned up before 10pm, and even then sometimes went back to work after an hour or two. Got to get their bonus, you see.
One of my closer friends -- I lived with this guy for two years! -- is working for a hedge fund. £200k, I think, probably with a bonus. He was never particularly social, but in the last three years I've seen him about three times. Last time, he noticed I'd cycled straight from work and asked if I thought it was quicker than taking the metro. I said it was similar, but it was nice to avoid the crowds and kept me fit. He said "but the train's always pretty empty at 5:45am"...
There is a group, Republic, trying to make the UK a republic. I considered joining around the time of Prince Whatsit's wedding.
Economically, it would be nice if we didn't have to pay for the royal family. Politically, it would be nice if we could elect a head of state. Culturally, it would be nice to look round our castles and palaces, and have the art and so on in a national museum.
But, there are much, much bigger economic, political and cultural problems. I gave some extra money to Liberty instead.
It looked interesting, but I lost interest when I saw the salary -- slightly less than what I have already, working for a different bit of government. And GCHQ is in Cheltenham.
But have you visited the UK? I live here, so it's what I'm used to, but when visiting a couple of cities in the US recently I felt more "watched" and regulated. There were many signs with lists of local laws, with violations incurring big fines. There were *more* public (government/city/whatever) CCTV cameras. (I don't know about private ones, in shops and so on -- they didn't catch my eye.) The government buildings were built like fortresses, and I had my ID scanned and bag x-rayed when visiting museums. When I tried to leave, a government employee handled my genitals.
I don't want an argument about which country is better -- they both need improvements in this respect. But I'd like to know how you felt watched (or similar) when you visited the UK.
If you look at the final video, you'll see that it's Linux running inside a VM, on Windows.
Incidentally, HTML5 might (I'm not sure, the spec looks complicated and there's debate and what's happening) solve this, by allowing a date and time provided with a timezone to be converted into local time.
Writing -0700 (or whatever) would be better than some acronym that's more-or-less meaningless to anyone outside North America. I think New York is usually 5 hours behind here, but has different DST begin/end times, and I can never remember if "PST" is another two, three or four hours further west.
This page uses UTC: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2011.html#LE2011Dec10T
Penumbral Eclipse Begins: 11:33:32 UT
Partial Eclipse Begins: 12:45:42 UT
Total Eclipse Begins: 14:06:16 UT
Greatest Eclipse: 14:31:49 UT
Total Eclipse Ends: 14:57:24 UT
Partial Eclipse Ends: 16:17:58 UT
Penumbral Eclipse Ends: 17:30:00 UT
Sunset here will be at 15:52... if it's not cloudy, it's probably worth having a look.
Maybe try Opera, that claims to be supported with your setup.
I've used it since version 6-point-something, and it's still fast.
(Also, I occasionally use Chromium, and less often Firefox.)
Blackmail, OBVIOUSLY.
They account for this already.
They don't care if you have three octogenarian boyfriends that you go to BDSM nights with, so long as you don't care if people know, i.e. can't be blackmailed with the information.
Maybe, though figures tend to indicate these days that the UK public sector is paid roughly equally to the private sector, and still (even with proposed changes) gives access to far better pensions.
One of the reasons I have no sympathy with those going on strike.
I went on strike, and I certainly get paid less than in the private sector. I like contributing to the country (science research), but there's a limit.
With the current offer I'll essentially lose about £1000 pa (increased pension contributions), and that's after 24 months of flat pay.
The problem is private pensions are shit, and we shouldn't have a race to the bottom. We should improve private pensions.
Where did you go to school because that sounds *REALLY* familiar.
I think similar things happened everywhere, no?
I was a victim of someone else's "hack" twice at secondary school, although on PCs. The first time it was a Word document made to look like the login dialogue, the second time a very small VB application.
I helped my dad set up a new network at his school one summer (well, mostly messed about -- they had internet!). I was told that school's administrator password, "changeme", which it turned out was the default password that the local educational IT supplier used. It worked well at my school for over a year -- I knew enough not to change anything that would be noticed, but I increased my quota. It lasted until I told a friend, who promptly changed the password...
I was "computer monitor" for a while. I think I started in year 3 (!), probably because my dad was the IT teacher at the secondary school. Being one of the few lockable, window-free rooms, I was allowed to wheel the computers into/out of the toilets (two in the boys', two in the girls'.)
I once found a "games" disc for the RM Nimbus 186, and after trying it was "banned" from using the computer until the next time the teacher needed it, and realised she'd forgotten how to set it up. Another time one of the "naughty boys" was using the computer. He called over the teacher, who called me over, and demonstrated that typing "S-H-I-T" brought up the help. I somehow got the blame for that, I don't remember how.
I remember in year four showing the teacher that it wasn't necessary to press "return" at the end of every line in the word processor. And, if you didn't, then the text rewrapped automatically if you added a word! Amazing.
The school had an Acorn 3010, but only two or three children knew how to use it, and none of the teachers. I was never asked to wheel it into a classroom. I think it was bought with Tesco Computers for Schools vouchers. About once a year I'd be asked to use it with a "visitor", who would watch me and take notes. I didn't realise it then, but I think they were probably OFSTED inspectors.
It depends on the city. Remember that we don't have national laws about stuff like this, and there are conservatives everywhere that define "conservation" as "keeping my money in my wallet". Where specifically did you visit?
Atlanta and New Orleans.
There aren't national laws here either, but the EU has imposed a landfill tax, which has a similar effect. Almost everywhere recycles paper, cardboard, glass, plastic containers and metal containers from the kerb, or bins in the street. Things like compostables, batteries, old oil, textiles, metal/plastic non-containers, aerosols etc may be collected with that, or might need to be taken somewhere else (or be collected on request). Same with old electronics, furniture, fluorescent lights, etc.
90% of my "landfill" waste is plastic films or bags, wine corks, little bits of scrap wood, used tissues, broken stuff etc. There are four of us in the house, and we only bother to empty the landfill bin every two or three weeks.
How much recycling bins you see is very regional, so it's hard what to make of your report without knowing where you went.
Atlanta and New Orleans.
Here in the UK recycling bins aren't ubiquitous, but I generally find one before I get home (even if it's someone's kerbside box).
I liked a German ICE (high speed) train I took. I'd drunk a bottle of wine with some friends. There were some small cupboards labelled "Papier" "Plastik" "Glas" "Restmüll" (with pictures). The "Glas" one contained a very small bottle rack :-)
For the biggest geekfest ever, get the BBC series which accompanied the launch of the BBC micro. Truly brilliant!
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6314602/Making_The_Most_Of_The_Micro
Does that link work for you? I get a 404 when I click "Download this torrent", I'm wondering if my ISP has done something awful since I last tried using TPB...
Where I am in London, we are supplied with 3 bins, compostables (which takes pretty much any organic matter apart from raw meat and bones)
Check that on your council's website. Mine take all food waste, including raw and cooked meat, fish and dairy products, bones and all.
The only things that go into landfill are cling film, scrunchy plastic bags (except carrier bags, which I take back to Tesco)... wine corks... erm... really dirty/foody paper.
If I pay someone to haul all of it away to a properly managed landfill, that is my right.
I am internalizing my costs.
And the better you sort your waste, the less they will charge.
Round here, many companies will take away (usually commercial) waste. They charge loads if you don't sort it, less if you do. More if you have some hazardous waste, loads more if it's mixed in with other waste. They will pay you if you have lots of sorted, recyclable waste.