Posts by Blergh 110 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Sep 2012
Presumably you would still be paying off your phone over the full period of your contract. The only change is it allows you to put a second sim in the phone, which could be useful while travelling. You could even change network provider after the first 2 months, or swap phones, but you would still be paying your original contract for the next 22 months (or whatever).
And this is why I bought a printer that cost a little more but most importantly doesn't use cartridges at all (Epson ET-2850). You just get bottles of ink and squirt it into the comparatively huge ink tanks. I've no idea if I've compromised quality or longevity but I've had it a year, it prints just fine, and the ink tanks are still all 3/4 full.
Has it not always been the case that writing which uses slang/dialect has been looked down upon?
SAE looks to be a dialect. I come from a place with a very strong dialect and I would fully expect this same experiment to come to the same conclusion for it.
If a person took this point of view, they're probably making the assumption that, if English is their first language, and they haven't learned how to properly write a sentence in English then their education probably isn't brilliant. There is a very long history of this assumption being made by the upper classes for hundreds of years. However, depending on the context of why/where you're making this inference, I'm not really sure it's racist, and in certain scenarios could even be a fair conclusion to make.
> The pair cited the example of a hotel chain that analyzes customers using just two data points: whether they use the gym, and if they choose healthy food.
And how did they manage to narrow it down to just those two data points? By analysing a big pile of lots of data points!
And then of course in 6 months time the question they want to answer will change, and then they will then need three data points. But which ones?
"That's why you lot still use it, too" - only when we have to.
"how many miles would you drive to get that perfect pint, instead of jogging to shed the couple stone you picked up in these sedentary Covid Times?" - If I keep up doing my 10km jog then I might still lose that extra couple Kg that I picked up in recent times, and then I won't feel guilty when I drink my 330ml can of beer.
I must be missing something here, did they only have test groups of people with and without Covid?
If that is the case then this is rubbish because all they are testing for is if someone is faking a cough or not.
How many people with coughs caused by other non-covid ailments did they test, and what was that accuracy?
I think I would then like to subdivide those groups (covid, non-covid, other infection types) further with those who have active coughs caused by their ailments against those who have a respiratory type infection without an active cough.
It's amazing just how big those gas giants are. I guess some/all of that rocky core is made up of all the asteroids (or even planets?) that it has eaten over it's lifetime. When it was said that the rocky core could reach out as far as 60% of it's radius, I thought "well could you send something down?". However it turns out that is still 23,000km of gas, and I don't suppose even if you could keep something working under that you probably wouldn't get any signal back out.
With a regular number keypad I often find my keyboard awkwardly set off to the left on my seating position and my mouse (right-handed) set further off to the right than should be comfortable. I like having a number keypad, but I've often felt it could be better positioned on the left of the keyboard (for rightys) and I could just learn to use it with my left hand. For this fact I've always been a little envious of leftys and have thought about learning to use my mouse with my left hand, but it's so damn difficult to be precise.
I didn't realise that dark matter could be explained away so easily. It just needs to be shown that all inter-galactic distances are wrong, presumably due to an inaccurate assumption about something that is used in those calculations.
This science stuff is easy - although I'll leave it up to someone else to find what that something is.
By saying the cost of adding bricks they are insinuating a list of allowable moves. Therefore in the Lego example the implication is that everything should stay where it is and you should only stabilise the roof, not redesign the building.
However, regardless of their crap experiment design I probably do still believe their hypothesis.
I just realised that our iPad2 is therefore almost 10 years old. It still works fine and is used daily for the kids to play games and streaming video. I was pretty sure the battery should have given up the ghost by now, but it can still keep a few hours of charge.
I've always wondered why anyone would even bother to compare it to a laptop. It's always been an at home consumption device (games, streaming and video calls) and for that it is simpler and easier to handle than a laptop. However if you need anything other more complicated than that just use a proper computer.
What should be promoted is that diversity is good in the workplace and should be striven for, and I don't just mean diversity of race and gender.
It is otherwise far too easy to have two equally good candidates for a position and the final choice be down to "fit", which is an unconscious bias that discriminates against minorities of every sort. Promote that diversity within a team is a good thing because a little bit of friction caused by different viewpoints can be a good thing - but I don't mean alienate people into two opposing camps such as happens with politics.
The only thing that looks any different to what we've had in our meeting rooms (combined with a big screen) for the last 2.5 years is the sound bar. When we actually worked in the office I was always very happy to be in meeting rooms with it installed, and hated it when I got stuck in a small room without it a having to instead use a laptop which gives a much inferior meeting experience.
Also (@Lee D) I don't think Google were ever planning to shut down Meet. They've been trying to shut down Hangouts and have been pushing people towards Google Meet and Google Chat instead.
What they should do is double the cost of a patent application, and then if it gets accepted you get half the money back. This way the USPTO would be incentivised to refuse patents. Of course this might backfire and they simple refuse all patents, but that would just show how corrupt the whole thing is anyway.
But equally there is the possibility that they haven't been counting enough deaths.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-homes-insigh/uncounted-among-coronavirus-victims-deaths-sweep-through-italys-nursing-homes-idUSKBN2152V0
"Gori said there had been 164 deaths in his town in the first two weeks of March this year, of which 31 were attributed to the coronavirus. That compares with 56 deaths over the same period last year."
I don't dislike SMS 2FA because it's insecure, although that obviously isn't great. The reason I hate it is that when I went to buy something on Saturday it took multiple attempts on 3 different cards before I actually received the SMS message for the transaction. I had a signal good enough to phone one of the helpdesks so I don't think that was the issue, it's just a rubbish system.
In the UK driving test you need to make reasonable progress and will be marked down if you are not driving up to the speed limit. And this means near the speed limit not at a speed significantly lower than that. I wonder if you might just about get away with 25mph but I would personally expect a fail for anything slower if there are no hazards about.
https://www.theorytestadvice.co.uk/driving-test/marking/progress.htm
I perfectly understand the push for a common standard and when there was 40+ different connectors that was just silly. However an enforced standard would stifle innovation and we wouldn't have any USB-C connectors on mobiles because we'd all be stuck with the USB-micro connectors forever (after all that did become the defacto standard). I don't think it's a terrible hardship to have a couple of different connectors and a very small amount of variety in the ecosystem.
I personally have an old Android with a USB-micro connector and therefore when I do upgrade I'll no doubt need a new cable anyway.
"I can *sort of * see a use case whereby you buy 2 of these - one for the office and one for when you're working at home."
But even if this was the case why would you want it in a laptop form factor. If this was my use case I'd want a proper keyboard, mouse, and big ass monitor sitting at both sites. Not a laptop.
"Looked at objectively, the presence of the name indicates a clear intention to associate oneself with the email – to authenticate it or to sign it."
I'd have thought the fact the email was sent from a person's email address associates that person with the email - even without the courtesy sign off.
Anyway should email not be classed as something like a recorded verbal agreement?
All of the above problems plus the bother of spelling out an email address at the till.
Just a spur or the moment thought...
Could some sort of independent and universal store card work? Whoever ran it would end up having a mountain of your data, but maybe the receipts could be encrypted in two forms, first so only you can see it and secondly by the store account so they can see it (or is that even needed?).
Maybe something like Lastpass, or whatever, but for receipts and comes with a physical card (or contactless) which can be bopped after, or somehow with, your payment.
Or maybe it would be easier to somehow combine the full receipt with the transaction to your card provider.
I don't suppose this gets past the security guy problem, unless there's an easy system to call up your receipt from just another contactless swipe at the store.
If you don't put too many chemicals down the drain then you don't actually ever need to pump it out. My parents built their house with one 22 years ago and it is still doing fine without any intervention or smell, but they did give it a good starter with a old rotten sheep carcass and I don't suppose most people bother with that.
I'm not sure I've ever seen the point in this whole bun fight for domain names, after all they are just a dictionary for an IP address, and often the typical user just does a Google search for the company they are looking for and then clicks on the first link. The domain of this link could be a random string of letters and they would still click on it.
What we need is a new hyper-domain registrar that will simply be another layer of lookups on top of the existing one.
e.g. If someone wants The Register they do a request for it from the new hyper-domain registrar who check it's dictionary and find it lives at the domain qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm.whocares and redirects to that, whereupon the current system takes over. All the user would see in the address bar is the logo for The Register and then everything in the URL after the domain name. I'm quite sure all the Browsers will jump at the chance to support this wonderful new protocol I just made up.
Ok sure maybe there are some security implications to my new system, but the whole domain name system is just so 1985 and is starting to feel like some sort of corrupt fleecing exercise.
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