Oh for feck's sake
Why don't you try learning about how this reactor works instead of spouting nonsense?
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There is something about the 'phone industry that brings out the absolute worst in any organisation. No matter how good you start out, you'll end up a lying, thieving, pack of incompetents in the end. I don't pretend to understand it, but appears to be universal and international.
Sigh. They are part of a model. Don't confuse the model with the real universe. Without them the model does not match reality.
You, and your Religion professor (why the lower case? does he merely profess to religion, rather than holding a Professorship? Just kidding, you there), need to study a little more about how science, and physics in particular, works.
.. the plot "twist" was extremely obvious if you pay any attention to what is going on. I know people have been conditioned by Hollywood schlock to sit and watch passively and wait to be spoon fed, but I do wonder how anyone could miss the fact that the only character who reacts to him at all is the "I see dead people" kid? It was an interesting idea tragically overplayed.
Now that's a point I'd never considered and it explains behaviour I've seen here at the ABC (Aussie, that is). I'd always put it down to the perpetrators having "soft" arts degrees* devoid of any requirement for critical thinking. I may have been completely wrong and it's intrinsic to the production of the medium rather than those producing it. That would explain many things about the nature of TV and film production.
I like a day when I've been presented with a new idea before 9AM...
* I should clarrify, I mean degree courses with soft options, not that arts degrees are all soft...
Why does it cost me less to buy stuff from overseas, then? Even after paying exorbitant freight costs the difference is still more than the GST, Gerry. It's often still better than 30%.
The only things you have to offer me are a peek at the merchandise before paying and immediate delivery. The former is less and less important because every feckin' major store stocks the same feckin' stuff. There is actually very little variety in what is available in this country. The latter is also hit and miss because retailers try to avoid holding stock and rely on their suppliers for just-in-time delivery.
If your cost-of-sales is is more than piecemeal international shipping I'll be very surprised (and also think you are doing something wrong). If you are paying so much more for stock, maybe you should grow a pair and sort out a better deal with your suppliers. Or you might just have to accept lower profit margins now that you have competition.
In short, large retailers have failed their market and it's going elsewhere. I suggest that the likes of Gerry Harvey should shut up shop or just shut up.
“We’re trying to strategically figure out what to do with MySpace,” Miller said. The $580m digital [edit for clarity and space] "We're just right now really starting that in earnest." ®
You blew $580m for a business with no idea what you were going to do with it?! There's proof that senior management at Newscorp are even clueless about business...
which ran to two series on the ABC here before the Sydney Olympics. The writers seemed to have a pretty amazing knack of predicting the following week's Olympic scandal / screw up / swindle. It's still very funny ten years on.
I must look up the BBC's remake. As long a Ricky Gervais has nothing to do with it I figure it sounds promising.
If you are going to make comments like this, you might want to have some basic knowledge of Australia.
First up, no one east of Broken Hill gives a rats about Adelaide. Traditional city rivalries are Sydney-Brisbane and Adelaide-Melbourne. Melbournians would like to move up to the first division and have a Melbourne-Sydney rivalry, but no one in Sydney cares so they are stuck. Perth is too far away the best they can do is a kind of one sided rivalry with the rest of the country, Hobart too small and Darwin too, well, Darwin.*
Second, do you really remember those phone calls or do get your current affairs knowledge from commercial TV? Given the number of migrants in Melbourne (second biggest Greek city in the world) that must have been a shit load of anonymous phone calls. Should be fairly easy to find the culprit: he's the one with the HUGE phone bill. As for the Goldcoast hinterland, that's always been 30 years behind the rest of the country, we just ignore them and I suggest you do the same.
* I seem to have forgotten Canberra - well it gets forgotten in every other respect.
Took offence at something someone here said, did you? I think you need to stop taking what Aussie's say so seriously. Apart from the usual lunatic fringe (in which I include parts of the the Liberal Party these days) I'm hard pressed to think of anyone I know who genuinely hates poms, wogs, lebbos, towel heads, coons, slopes, doggas, curry munchers or any other minority group prominent enough to have their own derogatory nickname. We may make the odd racist joke here and there but it's a joke FFS.
All of which is completely beside the point of a story about Sol Trujillo and his latest attempt to excuse his more or less complete failure as CEO of Telstra by blaming racism. Good riddance to bad rubbish and give our money back.
You missed two major concepts when you skimmed whatever page Google took you to.
The power required depends on the aerodynamic resistance of the vehicle. It's not a constant. Alfa Romeo got better than 100mph on 25hp from a production car in the 50s. It was small and slippery. The bigger the frontal area and the less aerodynamic the vehicle the more power is required to push the air out of the way.
Those numbers you quote are increases not absolutes and apply only to that car.
Better to understand the physics behind it than blindly quote numbers. The drag is proportional to the frontal area and the square of the speed. If you double the speed you quadruple the power required.
Now, the amount of fuel burnt to make that power is another matter altogether...
I fear that you are commenting on a subject about which you know very little and most of that is wrong.
"to miss the point ..."
No, he was discussing other possible effects of reducing the speed limit. Much of it is marginal or irrelevant, but it does speak to the point
"Internal combustion engines (whether by design... yada, yada"
I think you are confusing maximum efficiency with peak torque. The former would be the point where the engine does the work required for the least cost whereas the latter is where the engine provides the most motive force. There is no reason the two should coincide in real life as the former is overwhelmingly dependant on environment and situation.
Those numbers you quote may be correct for your car. They do not apply to every engine at all and gearing can be different even with models of car.
"Drag does play a part, but it's relatively trivial at those speeds"
Oh yes is it does! At 100km/h drag is the overwhelming limit. All others are vanishingly small by comparison. Drag is proportional to the square of the speed (from memory - please correct me if I'm wrong) so doubling the speed quadruples the work required to push the car along.
Seen pretty much all of the above over the years: My personal most hated words are "while you are here..." These days I've become quite hard nosed about it. You pay for my time. Make the job more difficult and you pay more hours. That's it.
Had one not long ago for a company that shall remain nameless because they're management are a pack of fools. Job must be done after hours for the usual reasons. I drive across town on the appointed afternoon to find that everyone at that office has knocked off on time 'cause no one told them I was coming. Ring my contact, log time. Next appointed day I find the warehouse manager waiting for me, but he doesn't have a key to the main office. I call my contact and log time. The third time turns out to be impossible because the central IT guys have some update process running for the hideous bespoke system the business runs on (it seems to be the major component of the franchise cost, near as I can tell) and it cannot be interrupted on pain of the whole thing going tit up. I ring my contact and log time. I also realise that they have remote access so I grant it to myself and go home via the pub.
Practical upshot: they have 4 hours on the meter before I even get started, all because. their collective left hand does not talk to the their collective right. My business partner was all for billing them the alotted hours each time the job was aborted which would have been over a grand without any actual work done. I vetoed that on the basis that there would a quite a lot of future work there if what I saw was anything to go by.
I suggest that the platters be removed from the HDDs and a prize issued for designing a sculpture made from them. It should be errected within site of Parliament. I've seen the way "artists" weld, and I'll garantee you the hash they make will render those platters unreadable while forming a lasting memorial for those whose data is still on those platters.
Maybe Liberty giving the finger. Suggestions should be sent on the back of a Guy Fawkes mask to someone other than me.
You don't think they actaully bought those BMWs, etc do you? Like everything else, the car is on lease. A flash, new car is seen as a necessity in the trade.
Every real estate agency I've ever dealt with has been run on an absolute shoe string. The number of times I've installed shiney new monitors, keyboards and mice and hidden a crappy, 5 year old PC away under the desk. Don't get me started on the software they run - I swear one was going to wear out the Office 97 disc it was installed so many times. They just will not spend money anything unless they absolutely have to.
They lawyers I've worked for on the other hand, have all been fine. Just so long as they think they are getting good service...
I must say that things must be going downhill in the UK. Out here in Aus, no agent would be seen dead in a 1 Series, Audi or Mini. A 3 series will do for your first year, but really it's 5 Series or C-Class minimum. Actually, you might get away with a Mini if you are particularly hip and metro, but not for long.
I was starting to think I was the only person in the world that was driven nuts by this nonsense. It's a legacy of tiny screens and faux-multitasking. The menu belongs attached to what it refers to.
Fritts Law is moot if what you are looking for is not even there because the menu bar belongs to another application. Personally, I don't find it a huge effort to stop a mouse movement after I've started it and clearly I have above average hand-eye coordination menu header on the first attempt...
Don't get me started on the Dock, Windows Sidebar, floating menu bars, etc.
Call centres are not there to help you. They are their to finish calls. Everything about the way these places are run places emphasis on getting through the maximum number of calls. That's the basis that the poor bastards employed there are paid and their performance evaluated The company that runs the hell-hole tenders on the basis of how many calls they can handle per hour and gets paid accordingly. The company contracting them does so on the basis of how many calls they can deal with per hour per whatever currency the deal is done in.
Customer satisfaction is way down the list, if it's on it at all. From the operator's point of view any bad feeling they generate is directed at whoever they work for, not them. From the employer's point of view, they don't have to deal with (or know about) their unhappy customers. If it get's really bad they'll change supplier and start the game over again.
So when you call these people always remember that they are not employed to solve your problem, they are paid to get you off the phone within their allotted target time.
[Sarcasm turned up to 11]
So leaving aside the disabled, elderly and infirm, what about the other 90% of the population? Oh, you actually meant you! I guess it makes you feel important that you "care" enough for someone to not turn you phone off. Such an effort you've made there. What DID we do before mobile phones? All those disabled, elderly and infirm getting murdered in their bed's 'cause they couldn't phone YOU. Get over yourself.
Right, rant over. This is actually a pretty good example of a very limited case being used to justify self indulgent behaviour. I want an expensive toy so I'll justify it by claiming it's for the benefit of someone else. I've come to suspect people who use this sort of reasoning genuinely believe their own BS.
For the record, my phone is usually turned on overnight because I forget to turn it off. Number of important phone calls at 2AM in the last 10 years: 0
For sufficiently small values of genius, perhaps.
If I hadn't seen the title there's no way I'd have guessed that was supposed to be bacon. The "bacon" graphics are so poor they look like red and white stripey things. Could be so much better.
The concept isn't bad. Take a theme, knock up some graphics and spam the app store. Bacon clock, fish clock, chocolate straw clock, etc. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination for stick like things to make the numbers out of. All at 99c of course...
No I don't think he's missed the point at all.
Google wanted to provide a stock quote so they used data from their own service. Have you ever dealt with stock trade systems? Their owners tend to regard their data as proprietary even when you can get it for free from anywhere. They get all antsy when a third party uses it. So Google using their own data is the only sensible route to avoid a Google News style lawsuit. As for the maps question, I suspect a similar reasoning applies since they are displaying a map, not just linking.
The stock quote argument is also flawed because, in Australia at least, you don't click through to buy or sell.
Second paragraph shows your age. You'd use the command line FTP to download whatever browser you like, just like we had to BEFORE MS bundled IE.
Now this actual story: these guys (Foundem) are a shopping comparison site, FFS! I don't want them in my search results at all. Even when I'm looking to buy something I don't want to see them. Where is the "don't show price comparison sites at all" switch in Google?
"If freebie security scanners werent so keen on popping up warnings and false positives to scare the users"
I fear you need to learn to distinguish between free scanners and rogue antivirus. I've not seen free scanners that "pop up warning and false positives", at least no more of the latter than say, Trend. Norton's free scanner is borderline, mind. I'd suggest that if you are seeing a lot of "you have 60,000 viruses" type messages, you don't have a virus scanner at all but and infection.
Fail.
Seriously, what is it with telephone companies?. It doesn't seem to matter where in the world you are even the best of them are, um... a little odd to deal with. The industry seems to be infested with the semi competent and outright dishonest well beyond the norm of utilities. Anyone got any suggestions as to why this is?
It's a big seller around here, I was drinking it last night. It's called Cooper's Pale Ale. You can find it just about anywhere in Aus and I'm reliably informed that it can be found as far as Oxford (no idea where) and San Diego (somewhere near the navy base, FWIW). Try the Sparkling Ale and the Stout while your at it, but steer clear of anything that isn't an ale - it's just a marketting excercise.
One of the marvelous things about beer is that you can travel the whole world without drinking the mass produced cat's piss of the major brewers. So many beers, so little liver (or rather, such an enlarged one...)