I also don't understand why they think you'll consume an entire litre of fizzy drink during a single movie.
American influence, I think. I don't remember much from my single trip to the cinema in the USA, many years ago, except that the staff wondered why the British children didn't want any food or drink. We lasted the duration of Finding Nemo with no ill effects, and without consuming 175% of a child's RDA of sugar in a single drink (figure for a supersized "42 oz" (1.25L) coke).
At McDonalds (figures from the websites): - A "large" drink in the UK is 0.5L, a "medium" about 0.4L, a "small" 0.25L (Germany has the same sizes). - A "large" drink in the US is 0.95L, a "medium" is 0.62L, a "small" 0.47L, and a "child" 0.35L.
The US "child" drink, the smallest available, is about the same as a UK/German "medium".
In 2001 not so many people had broadband internet access, and one of the kids in my class downloaded films, burned them to CD-R, and sold them at a small profit (about £1 per CD). One of my friends downloaded music and gave it away to his friends on CD.
If filesharing sites are blocked, it could limit downloading films and music to those who know how to get round the block. The result can be the same, except according to the GP, the sharing at school now happens using an SD card in a smartphone and WiFi (or Bluetooth?) to do the file transfer.
Because Windows only supports but three filesystems on non-optical media: FAT(12/16/32), NTFS and ExFAT.
I've just read elsewhere in the thread that Windows supports UDF (the open-standards unpatented alternative), in which case the problem is not with Windows, but with other devices that don't support UDF (i.e. I can have a UDF support in my hypothetical new Android phone, and my laptop and desktop, but I can't use that UDF-formatted SD card in my digital camera or the photo-gallery thing on the TV).
Ryanair can be a reasonable option in some circumstances.
If you're flying to London, then Stansted and Luton are only a little less-connected than Gatwick (5-10 minutes more travelling time, similar cost). In some cities the 'small' airport used by Ryanair can be more convenient -- e.g. Gothenberg City is nearer the centre of Gothenberg.
I've flown from London to places in Eastern Europe with Ryanair. If the destination only has one airport (e.g. Bratislava) then it shouldn't be a problem -- there will be buses to the centre of town.
Book the luggage and everything else online, or travel with hand luggage only (weigh it). Remember to include these costs when comparing with other airlines -- but remember easyJet (etc) also charge for luggage and paying by card. I have the appropriate credit card to avoid Ryanair's 'admin' fees (here), I flew to Brno for £14.99 (as advertised, with hand luggage only) + ~£20 for the train to Luton.
The last few times I've flown with easyJet the flight has been late. They fly to main airports, but they're still cheap and will be last in line for a landing slot and gate if there's congestion. You get what you pay for, after all. I'm beginning to think being reliably on-time but further from the city with Ryanair is better than being late and a little nearer with easyJet.
It's scary and even regulations on labeling can't be imposed thanks, apparently, to the need to keep the government out of the way of business. According to the USDA, in 2007 50% of the apple juice consumed in the US came from China. That number is sure to increase.
Things I buy often say things like "contains Thai chicken", but I had a look at UK law and can't see where this is required. The best I can find is a proposed bill to change the law to require it to be said, but Parliament ran out of time to debate it.
Does anyone know?
(Actually, I very rarely buy the kind of processed food that would say "contains Thai chicken", but when I do, most of the time the origin of the meat is clear. Fresh fruit and vegetables in the supermarket generally say "Grown in Kenya" or "Grown in the EU". All fish and dairy things say where they're from. But there isn't much consistency. Some things just say "Produce of several countries.")
I didn't study much maths at university (no trig, anyway), and that was three years ago. But earlier this week someone asked me something vaguely related, and when I realised they expected me to actually solve the problem I derived the necessary formula by playing with an equilateral triangle (similar to knowing how to construct this). If you're not taught about these things it's difficult to know they exist.
He does math stuff every day. Most people don't.
You should, if you're studying it! Read up on what you've forgotten as soon as you can, and repeat some of the exercises from last year. (Don't I sound old and boring? I'm not yet 25...)
Some universities in my country have too many freshmen so they deliberately try to make half of them drop out.
Which is not a bad strategy when you consider the alternative: absurdly high entrance requirements.
...and the students who don't meet those requirements go somewhere with lower entrance requirements, and don't drop out. That's the way it works in the UK.
I applied to five (or six?) places, had a couple of interviews, and got some conditional offers based on my grades. I accepted a "firm" offer (needed AAA in my final exams) and an "insurance" offer (AAB). Friends who weren't so good might have applied for different courses at different universities and ended up accepting offers of BCC or CCD (for example).
I'd like to remind you that many students in high school can barely handle Algebra III/Precalculus (whatever you call it). If you're proposing making Calculus a graduation requirement for high school or something moronic like that, you're going to do a lot of damage. I'm a college freshman right now, so I actually do remember my senior year of high school very well.
I'm not, but I did some calculus (starting in the school year for age 16-17).and that part of A-level Maths (in England and Wales) hasn't changed.
Every high school math class I was in dedicated the first half of the class to going over homework sets (generally 10-40 problems of varying complexity) which takes away from instructional time. Many math classes ran out of time so if you wanted to get the last 10 minutes of the lesson you had to stay after class
I think we'd have only covered things if someone had asked, or the teacher had noticed many of us had made the same mistakes. Did you have a class of all different abilities? Everyone in my class got a very high grade, since everyone was put into a maths class according to their ability (and moved, if necessary).
In the UK there's also The Co-operative Bank, which I recommend. I moved my account there a few years ago since they have an ethical policy (no investing in things the membership don't like). I do everything online, and haven't asked for anything like a mortgage, loan etc, so I can't really comment on their customer service. It gets high ratings in surveys.
Bakery towards the back, since it needs to go in the trolley/basket last, or it will get squashed.
Flowers, fruit and vegetables go right at the front, since people are feeling healthy and positive at that point. By the time they're at the back of the store they're ready to buy junk food snacks, fizzy drinks and alcohol.
They should also explain how cities and towns across the country have these buildings with lots of high-quality books that anybody can read completely for free.
Some of them, like the London Library Consortium (all the public, local libraries in London) already lend out eBooks.
(I tried it once, but I don't have a proper eBook reader. I'm not sure how good the service is.)
Do not compare this to other software distributors. The 99$ tag that you HAVE to pay per year to have your app in the appstore make it extremely hard for anyone to be able to make a profit
If $99 is the difference between profit and loss, was it really worth trying to make any money anyway? That's 0.5-1-2 days work at minimum wage in most developed countries.
Better to put your time into a free app, and feel good about it, rather than stressing about your $99.
For any slashdotters looking for a somewhat nerdy form of exercise, you can't get much better than cycling, and I highly recommend looking into it! [...] I do strongly recommend you NOT get a hybrid bicycle, however; the upright position is horribly inefficient and NOT comfortable for any more than a few miles because your weight is not split as evenly between your arms and butt as it is on a road bike.
It's much more complicated than that...
If the bicycle is just for exercise, and all you're going to do is ride for the sake of exercise, then a road bike is fine.
But if you want a more practical bicycle -- something to use to get to work, go shopping, etc -- then a road bike is not the best choice -- far from it. You want something you can attach mudguards and a rear rack to, with a riding position that gives you a clear view. Sensible choices are a hybrid or upright/city bike. A hybrid bike is lighter and faster, and probably the typical choice for most places in North America, the UK, and other places where cycling isn't especially popular.
At work, out of the 40 or so bikes locked outside my building there are two or three road bikes, with lycra-clad riders -- they extend their journey home for exercise, and get the train if it's raining. There are a couple of folding bikes, a work bike, and a tricycle. There are probably a couple of singlespeeds etc. The majority are a mix of hybrid and city bikes.
Possibly only correct in my country fact: When speaking, people often talk about "K"s rather than kilometres -- e.g. "I cycled 7 Ks to work today"
In my experience, that's true for Kiwis and Australians (and I don't know about other English-speaking metric countries). I've only ever heard 'kilometres' from non-native-English-speaking-Europeans, and had confused looks when I've said 'kay'.
My bike has hydraulic brakes. They're really nice, they're so responsive.
(Apparently it's complicated to bleed the liquid etc, but that's shouldn't be necessary. I've ridden 8000km and so far the only maintenance I've needed to do to the braking system is to replace a set of pads, which took about 5 minutes.)
Opera already supports a full-screen presentation/projection mode, as defined by CSS (2?). See this example, then press F11 to go full-screen. The content is split into screens/pages, use Page Down to go to the next one.
Except in demonstrations of CSS, I've only once seen this used.
The only thing people do universally agree on is child pornography.
No, they don't. Must it be a sexual situation, or does any nudity qualify? What age -- 18? 16? 14? 12? Does being male or female make a difference?
I've probably seen what could be considered child pornography - "Page 3" in British tabloid newspapers before the age limit for topless modelling was raised from 16 to 18 - Baby/child photos (mostly me or my siblings, but occasionally friends)
Think of it as a public service - most tubby city workers could probably do with some more energy expenditure in their day.
People in London are, on average, thinner than the rest of the UK. Although children in London, on average, are more obese.
Walking to and from a station, somewhere at lunchtime, and maybe somewhere after work on the way home is hardly a lot of walking, but it's more than people who drive to work and park right outside. (Conversely, city children perhaps spend less time outside, but I can't find figures for this.)
(I'm surprised the official website for the new shopping centre has "Getting Here by Car" above public transport. That doesn't look very "green". Their other London location has 60% arriving by public transport, so purely on that number it makes sense to have the various local stations higher on the page.)
Contrary to the nay-sayers who've already replied to you, BT already offer this service (BT FON) through residential connections, but only to other BT customers, and Virgin are rolling out a similar service (but with an access point in their box in the street). Some mobile phone companies offer free subscriptions to various WiFi networks (generally in pubs/restaurants) to reduce load on their 3G cells. One company offers 3G femtocells which use a home broadband connection, I don't recall any details.
Also, I'd be surprised if many buildings in "downtown" (central) London don't have direct fibre. It's certainly available. There are thousands of financial companies, tech companies, etc, and a quick Google search shows many companies offering fibre to businesses.
(10 years ago I went to school in the centre of a much smaller British city. Two telecoms companies regularly "borrowed" the playground and covered it in fibre, presumably before sticking it in pipes underground.)
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I also don't understand why they think you'll consume an entire litre of fizzy drink during a single movie.
American influence, I think. I don't remember much from my single trip to the cinema in the USA, many years ago, except that the staff wondered why the British children didn't want any food or drink. We lasted the duration of Finding Nemo with no ill effects, and without consuming 175% of a child's RDA of sugar in a single drink (figure for a supersized "42 oz" (1.25L) coke).
At McDonalds (figures from the websites):
- A "large" drink in the UK is 0.5L, a "medium" about 0.4L, a "small" 0.25L (Germany has the same sizes).
- A "large" drink in the US is 0.95L, a "medium" is 0.62L, a "small" 0.47L, and a "child" 0.35L.
The US "child" drink, the smallest available, is about the same as a UK/German "medium".
In 2001 not so many people had broadband internet access, and one of the kids in my class downloaded films, burned them to CD-R, and sold them at a small profit (about £1 per CD). One of my friends downloaded music and gave it away to his friends on CD.
If filesharing sites are blocked, it could limit downloading films and music to those who know how to get round the block. The result can be the same, except according to the GP, the sharing at school now happens using an SD card in a smartphone and WiFi (or Bluetooth?) to do the file transfer.
Because Windows only supports but three filesystems on non-optical media: FAT(12/16/32), NTFS and ExFAT.
I've just read elsewhere in the thread that Windows supports UDF (the open-standards unpatented alternative), in which case the problem is not with Windows, but with other devices that don't support UDF (i.e. I can have a UDF support in my hypothetical new Android phone, and my laptop and desktop, but I can't use that UDF-formatted SD card in my digital camera or the photo-gallery thing on the TV).
Ryanair can be a reasonable option in some circumstances.
If you're flying to London, then Stansted and Luton are only a little less-connected than Gatwick (5-10 minutes more travelling time, similar cost). In some cities the 'small' airport used by Ryanair can be more convenient -- e.g. Gothenberg City is nearer the centre of Gothenberg.
I've flown from London to places in Eastern Europe with Ryanair. If the destination only has one airport (e.g. Bratislava) then it shouldn't be a problem -- there will be buses to the centre of town.
Book the luggage and everything else online, or travel with hand luggage only (weigh it). Remember to include these costs when comparing with other airlines -- but remember easyJet (etc) also charge for luggage and paying by card. I have the appropriate credit card to avoid Ryanair's 'admin' fees (here), I flew to Brno for £14.99 (as advertised, with hand luggage only) + ~£20 for the train to Luton.
The last few times I've flown with easyJet the flight has been late. They fly to main airports, but they're still cheap and will be last in line for a landing slot and gate if there's congestion. You get what you pay for, after all. I'm beginning to think being reliably on-time but further from the city with Ryanair is better than being late and a little nearer with easyJet.
It's scary and even regulations on labeling can't be imposed thanks, apparently, to the need to keep the government out of the way of business. According to the USDA, in 2007 50% of the apple juice consumed in the US came from China. That number is sure to increase.
Things I buy often say things like "contains Thai chicken", but I had a look at UK law and can't see where this is required. The best I can find is a proposed bill to change the law to require it to be said, but Parliament ran out of time to debate it.
Does anyone know?
(Actually, I very rarely buy the kind of processed food that would say "contains Thai chicken", but when I do, most of the time the origin of the meat is clear. Fresh fruit and vegetables in the supermarket generally say "Grown in Kenya" or "Grown in the EU". All fish and dairy things say where they're from. But there isn't much consistency. Some things just say "Produce of several countries.")
I didn't study much maths at university (no trig, anyway), and that was three years ago. But earlier this week someone asked me something vaguely related, and when I realised they expected me to actually solve the problem I derived the necessary formula by playing with an equilateral triangle (similar to knowing how to construct this). If you're not taught about these things it's difficult to know they exist.
He does math stuff every day. Most people don't.
You should, if you're studying it! Read up on what you've forgotten as soon as you can, and repeat some of the exercises from last year. (Don't I sound old and boring? I'm not yet 25...)
Some universities in my country have too many freshmen so they deliberately try to make half of them drop out.
Which is not a bad strategy when you consider the alternative: absurdly high entrance requirements.
...and the students who don't meet those requirements go somewhere with lower entrance requirements, and don't drop out. That's the way it works in the UK.
I applied to five (or six?) places, had a couple of interviews, and got some conditional offers based on my grades. I accepted a "firm" offer (needed AAA in my final exams) and an "insurance" offer (AAB). Friends who weren't so good might have applied for different courses at different universities and ended up accepting offers of BCC or CCD (for example).
I'd like to remind you that many students in high school can barely handle Algebra III/Precalculus (whatever you call it). If you're proposing making Calculus a graduation requirement for high school or something moronic like that, you're going to do a lot of damage. I'm a college freshman right now, so I actually do remember my senior year of high school very well.
I'm not, but I did some calculus (starting in the school year for age 16-17).and that part of A-level Maths (in England and Wales) hasn't changed.
Every high school math class I was in dedicated the first half of the class to going over homework sets (generally 10-40 problems of varying complexity) which takes away from instructional time. Many math classes ran out of time so if you wanted to get the last 10 minutes of the lesson you had to stay after class
I think we'd have only covered things if someone had asked, or the teacher had noticed many of us had made the same mistakes. Did you have a class of all different abilities? Everyone in my class got a very high grade, since everyone was put into a maths class according to their ability (and moved, if necessary).
In the UK there's also The Co-operative Bank, which I recommend. I moved my account there a few years ago since they have an ethical policy (no investing in things the membership don't like). I do everything online, and haven't asked for anything like a mortgage, loan etc, so I can't really comment on their customer service. It gets high ratings in surveys.
I think they should just change the name to "Apfel" or "Pomme" or "Apel".
Bakery towards the back, since it needs to go in the trolley/basket last, or it will get squashed.
Flowers, fruit and vegetables go right at the front, since people are feeling healthy and positive at that point. By the time they're at the back of the store they're ready to buy junk food snacks, fizzy drinks and alcohol.
They should also explain how cities and towns across the country have these buildings with lots of high-quality books that anybody can read completely for free.
Some of them, like the London Library Consortium (all the public, local libraries in London) already lend out eBooks.
(I tried it once, but I don't have a proper eBook reader. I'm not sure how good the service is.)
There are blond geeks. I'd pretend to be one, but I'd get lots of marriage proposals.
I don't have much choice (I don't want to dye my hair). However, I'm male, so I don't think the joke applies.
Do not compare this to other software distributors. The 99$ tag that you HAVE to pay per year to have your app in the appstore make it extremely hard for anyone to be able to make a profit
If $99 is the difference between profit and loss, was it really worth trying to make any money anyway? That's 0.5-1-2 days work at minimum wage in most developed countries.
Better to put your time into a free app, and feel good about it, rather than stressing about your $99.
For any slashdotters looking for a somewhat nerdy form of exercise, you can't get much better than cycling, and I highly recommend looking into it! [...] I do strongly recommend you NOT get a hybrid bicycle, however; the upright position is horribly inefficient and NOT comfortable for any more than a few miles because your weight is not split as evenly between your arms and butt as it is on a road bike.
It's much more complicated than that...
If the bicycle is just for exercise, and all you're going to do is ride for the sake of exercise, then a road bike is fine.
But if you want a more practical bicycle -- something to use to get to work, go shopping, etc -- then a road bike is not the best choice -- far from it. You want something you can attach mudguards and a rear rack to, with a riding position that gives you a clear view. Sensible choices are a hybrid or upright/city bike. A hybrid bike is lighter and faster, and probably the typical choice for most places in North America, the UK, and other places where cycling isn't especially popular.
At work, out of the 40 or so bikes locked outside my building there are two or three road bikes, with lycra-clad riders -- they extend their journey home for exercise, and get the train if it's raining. There are a couple of folding bikes, a work bike, and a tricycle. There are probably a couple of singlespeeds etc. The majority are a mix of hybrid and city bikes.
Possibly only correct in my country fact: When speaking, people often talk about "K"s rather than kilometres -- e.g. "I cycled 7 Ks to work today"
In my experience, that's true for Kiwis and Australians (and I don't know about other English-speaking metric countries). I've only ever heard 'kilometres' from non-native-English-speaking-Europeans, and had confused looks when I've said 'kay'.
Only for Facebook to hold and process the information, not anyone else.
(A private individual's address book excepted.)
My bike has hydraulic brakes. They're really nice, they're so responsive.
(Apparently it's complicated to bleed the liquid etc, but that's shouldn't be necessary. I've ridden 8000km and so far the only maintenance I've needed to do to the braking system is to replace a set of pads, which took about 5 minutes.)
That is true for companies with which you have a contract that involves sending them personal information.
No, it's true for all companies that hold personal information. See the ICO for more details (for the UK).
They are not from a EU country
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Opera already supports a full-screen presentation/projection mode, as defined by CSS (2?). See this example, then press F11 to go full-screen. The content is split into screens/pages, use Page Down to go to the next one.
Except in demonstrations of CSS, I've only once seen this used.
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Zoom in on that raindrop. Enhance!
The only thing people do universally agree on is child pornography.
No, they don't. Must it be a sexual situation, or does any nudity qualify? What age -- 18? 16? 14? 12? Does being male or female make a difference?
I've probably seen what could be considered child pornography
- "Page 3" in British tabloid newspapers before the age limit for topless modelling was raised from 16 to 18
- Baby/child photos (mostly me or my siblings, but occasionally friends)
Think of it as a public service - most tubby city workers could probably do with some more energy expenditure in their day.
People in London are, on average, thinner than the rest of the UK. Although children in London, on average, are more obese.
Walking to and from a station, somewhere at lunchtime, and maybe somewhere after work on the way home is hardly a lot of walking, but it's more than people who drive to work and park right outside. (Conversely, city children perhaps spend less time outside, but I can't find figures for this.)
(I'm surprised the official website for the new shopping centre has "Getting Here by Car" above public transport. That doesn't look very "green". Their other London location has 60% arriving by public transport, so purely on that number it makes sense to have the various local stations higher on the page.)
...if only for preventing giving Google more power/data.
On my netbook I use Chromium, for exactly this reason. (Also, it can't really handle Firefox.)
On my desktop I use Opera. It's not open source, but I think they do good for the web, and it's Really Fast.
Contrary to the nay-sayers who've already replied to you, BT already offer this service (BT FON) through residential connections, but only to other BT customers, and Virgin are rolling out a similar service (but with an access point in their box in the street). Some mobile phone companies offer free subscriptions to various WiFi networks (generally in pubs/restaurants) to reduce load on their 3G cells. One company offers 3G femtocells which use a home broadband connection, I don't recall any details.
Also, I'd be surprised if many buildings in "downtown" (central) London don't have direct fibre. It's certainly available. There are thousands of financial companies, tech companies, etc, and a quick Google search shows many companies offering fibre to businesses.
(10 years ago I went to school in the centre of a much smaller British city. Two telecoms companies regularly "borrowed" the playground and covered it in fibre, presumably before sticking it in pipes underground.)