Comment Re:How're they gonna say it? (Score 1) 206
At least "oh-ten" is still accurate. By comparison, I heard a lady refer to 2002 as "nineteen hundred and a hundred and two" once.
Surely you complimented her on her perl skills?
At least "oh-ten" is still accurate. By comparison, I heard a lady refer to 2002 as "nineteen hundred and a hundred and two" once.
Surely you complimented her on her perl skills?
I understood the possible "efficiency" gains when people your write "2K" or "2K3" for the years 2000 and 2003, respectively, but I have recently seen at least one advertisement using "2K10" for 2010.
Except this is a constant source of amusement for somebody who's used to seeing resistor values written in short form where the magnitude symbol (R, K, M, G) replaces the decimal point. Examples: 2K = 2000 ohms, 2K3 = 2300 ohms, 2K10 = 2K1 = 2100 ohms, etc. By the same logic: year 2K3 = year 2300... hmm...
Sure: In an emergency can I cobble together something to send out a communication that doesn't involve me fabricating a processor?(...)
For any infrastructure, there should be at least the possibility of a contingency plan that could operate using 1940's technology... ideally with a fail-safe involved as well. Anything else is bound to come back to haunt us sooner or later.
If you're interested in communicating with people over long distances with extremely simple technology, I seriously suggest you look into getting a ham license. It's not very difficult, and you can make yourself useful when other communications networks are down. See http://www.arrl.org/ for further information.
73 de OH8HTH
From the filed doc:
...a group of databases may be provided that each define one or more shorthand terms. These definitions may be structured in the database as shorthand terms paired with longhand terms. For example, one database may define the shorthand term "LOL" to mean "laughing out loud." Another database may instead define "LOL" to mean "lots of laughs." A database may also include multiple definitions for a given term. For example, a user's personal database may have two entries for the shorthand term "OMW" including "on my way" and "oh my word"
IOW, they have managed to patent a dictionary? Prior art, anyone?
Yeah, but nearly 99.9% of terrorists are Muslim.
By that logic we should strip search anyone who breathes, after all 100% of terrorists breathe air.
The terrorists will just hold their breath...
which world is this you live on, where getting drunk is not your own fault, and the subsequent events that happen is also not your fault?
Finland.
(Yes, I'm Finnish.)
I'm sure we could come up with a better term than "vishing".
You might vant to throw a coin in the vishing vell.
I think you define "average person" very widely...
Doesn't something that's average, by its nature, have to be defined widely...?
If the "average person" eats at McD, then yes.
What about europe ? Is there something with road signs somewhere that confuses people ?
Sometimes road signs themselves are confusing. I've seen signs to suburb A hanging above a left-turn-only lane that leads to suburb B.
BTW, if you can't see the sun's aura through the clouds, it's probably raining.
Another good sign that it's raining is when you get wet.
Her: Turn left here.
Me: *turns left*
Her: Oh, I meant stage left.
Me: Grrrr!
Nowadays I usually just ask for the address and look it up in a map. Here's why.
This has happened to me a couple of times:
friend (sitting in the back seat): Go that way.
me: Which way?
friend: That way.
me: Straight on or turn right?
friend: That way!
me: OK, I'm going straight.
friend: (at the very last possible moment) No, turn right!
This can end in a couple of ways. Ending A:
me: (twist twist twist the wheel / gently down the street / merrily merrily merrily merrily / tires make a squeeeeek...) You could have just told me, I can't see you from here...
friend:
Ending B:
me: You could have said it earlier, we're in the wrong lane now... We can turn back over there. You might want to be a bit more specific...
friend:
Then there's the annoying habit of giving "used to be" directions - it's especially popular where I live. If something is in the older parts of the town, and an older inhabitant is giving directions, they're bound to be of the form "where x used to be, turn towards the former y, then where z was before it moved, turn left. It's right next to the ex-..." This is usually based on a landscape that ceased to exist before I was born, and completely ignores the fact that I moved into this town in 1995.
I haven't gotten around to getting a navigator. I do use online map services to look for shortest routes, but then I just print a route description or just jot down a few key road numbers and directions. I do have a good road atlas in the car, and I know how to use it.
So what happens when you cross the border from Finland into Norway or Sweden? How much additional does it cost to make a cell phone call?
Or a more relevant to most U.S. geography, what happens when a Belgian cell phone user crosses in the Netherlands or France? When I do the equivalent (New York to New Jersey or Connecticut)here, it has absolutely no effect on my cell phone bill.
If a Finnish TeliaSonera user gets a TeliaSonera Finland base station, charges are minimal, whereas if the base station is in Sweden and belongs to TeliaSonera Sweden, charges are exorbitant. The EU was supposed to mandate a ceiling on roaming fees, making the charges somewhat less exorbitant...
I don't know where you are that a bank account number is sufficient information to withdraw money from a random account.
The United States. And it's technically not, but since banks here are not very vigilant about these things, but with the account number, bank routing number and a check number, it's possible for fraudsters to do so.
Bank routing numbers are public information; anybody can come up with a check number; so the only possible secret is the account number...
In contrast, see here.
But, here at least, if someone has your bank account number they can wreck havoc on your life, everything from identity theft to fraudulently withdrawing money from your account. How do they prevent that?
I don't know where you are that a bank account number is sufficient information to withdraw money from a random account. The only thing you can do with a bank account number is deposit.
OTOH, I do get checks on occasion, for instance, from mail-in rebates, or when my electric utility issued a refund of my initial deposit in the form of a check. I figure there's gotta be something like that still going on in Europe.
Nope. They just asked for your account number and deposit the money.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
