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Comment Re:Maybe this is just me (Score 1) 845

Absolutely.

The only one I thought of reaching for a calculator for was the wages one, and that's just because I'm lazy. Then I noticed one had the correct cents, and so that must be the answer.

I could forgive forgetting the coordinate system, and remembering the difference between rotating about the Y axis and flipping the sign of the y coordinate, but the rest were just sums. That someone could fail to get 100% on the sums with a calculator is ridiculous.

I sincerely hope that these weren't true representations of the difficulty of the test, and that the journalists are being silly......

Otherwise the world is doomed.

Comment Re:USA only? (Score 5, Informative) 140

Ah, I found the answer, and it's "You must also have been a resident of the United States at the time of your purchase". And the $1.50 is only credit on their site! You don't even get a cheque for the money. Ridiculous. I hope the lawyers who agreed to this also get their payment in ticketmaster credit only.

Comment Re:Just moving the problem really (Score 1) 287

You know that you can easily change the behaviour of closing the lid ? First thing I do when setting up a new notebook is setting the lid close behaviour to "do nothing". If I want to standby or power down, then it takes me an extra second or so to press the power button. Otherwise, I'm just closnig the lid to get to the cables behind the notebook, or so my boss doesn't see the screen, or because I'm carrying the notebook into the other room.

Comment Re:90 minutes: partially due to speed of light lim (Score 1) 104

Math looks good (although upper case "K" is Kelvin - you need lower case "k" for kilo...), but I suspect there's a large dose of redundancy and Error-correction information included in that 6Mbps. It's not like you can have an efficient retry protocol with a 20 minute ping time. So, there'd be less than 3.2GB of useful data sent. Probably between 50% and 70% would be actual image.

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