Troll too
'nuff said.
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I heard something about that recently, it seems that some companies set up to supply power at wholesale variable prices, because under normal conditions this is cheap. At least one of these suppliers, when they realised what was going to happen (ie. their customers would be hit with bills for thousands of dollars worth of now-expensive wholesale power) tried to warn customers, ie. said "drop us now".
Sadly many of these customers were not in a position to read email or switch power suppliers at that moment due to the weather conditions.
Indeed, "dummy" means a non-functioning replica, which is where both the baby's dummy (pacifier) and the dummy data meanings come from. Nothing wrong here.
Using it to mean a stupid person is an insult but are we really suggesting banning the use of any word that can or has ever been used as an insult in another context?
While it's nice to try to compensate the consumer for overcharging, does anyone think that an iphone would have been £30 cheaper without this issue? They are priced at a specific point decided by marketing, eg. if they want to sell it at £500 they won't be selling it at £470 just because the chips were a bit cheaper.
I read that twitter thread yesterday morning and what is notable is the number of people reporting similar types of errors on their medical records or during interactions with healthcare workers. One person was told by someone literally standing next to her that she was a foot shorter than she actually was.
Actually Atheism isn't a hypothesis. It's the default state until the hypothesis ("one or more gods exist") is shown to be likely to be true. As in not believing in various other things, until one gets a good reason to do so. I don't need a hypothesis that there are no fairies at the bottom of my garden either, unless the default state is that they exist.
I agree, it seems increasingly common now for settings not to have any way to "confirm" or "save" your changes. Once they're done, they are done, apparently. So how do you cancel?
Do these people have no regard for 40 years of user interfaces?
Not to pick on you since you did say "why would someone fake an image", but It's sad that people's first thought is "it's a fake!!!" rather than "I wonder why the debri isn't visible".
Unfortunately that seems to be the trend these days. Everyone commenting thinks they know better and if they don't understand something it's either a fake or the fault of the other party. Never because the commenter doesn't have the full picture, oh no.
I've never understood why people have found it hard - maybe they are trying to do different things than I am with GIMP (astronomy image processing) or maybe they are seeing it through a Photoshop-shaped filter.
I would probably have trouble with Photoshop since it's apparently so different from GIMP.
Airline prices go up in times of great demand because they are being helpful? I'm sure the stranded passengers you mention are so grateful that the prices just tripled to enable them to get home!
No, the only reason prices go up in times of great demand is because they can get away with it.
"someone unaware of it's limitations and a lack of knowledge outside of a Microsoft ecosystem."
I think you've hit the nail on the head there.
Someone who had to come up with a solution didn't have the knowledge or experience to know that there were better solutions available. "Excel can hold thousands of rows of data and it's on everyone's desktop, what's not to like?"
Non-techies probably wouldn't even consider that there may be a limit on the number of rows.
Of course. That's why the vaccines currently in development haven't been released yet.
However there will always be some who refuse to accept the standard clinical trial methodology and will demand ever stronger "proof".
Strangely they are often the ones who go for the products that have not undergone any decent clinical trials at all.
It's a grey area because he's listening to the originals and figuring it out then publishing the tabs and notation for how to play the same tune. The publishers don't like that because they will have licensed the right to sell official tabs to another publisher, or done it themselves.
Calling it his own arrangement just means he doesn't go into as much detail as the original, might miss out some notes etc. Does that mean it's derivative and fair use? or just an inaccurate copy?
And I say that as an amateur guitar player and user of such things myself.
The point of fining people is to ensure that people pay for their parking.
If it can be shown that you paid the correct amount for parking for the duration in that location, then there is no justification for a fine for a minor, trivial, or inconsequential mistake in the process.
Yet these companies and their rules seem to make it their mission to make it hard for drivers and refuse appeals for no obvious reason.
They need to be held to some kind of standards when awarding them the contracts.
Ruling that a paper ticket is non-transferrable to a different vehicle is another one that's unjustifiable in my view, but that's a different story.
This does sound like a disaster, and I agree with the sentiment that they shouldn't just foist an upgrade on people under the disguise of a regular update.
However, don't people just use the Android built-in back button, which seems to serve as a Browser "back" in my experience?
I am more likely to use the browser's "forward" button for times when I accidentally pressed back, than the browser's "back".
if someone sends a CSV and it opens in excel just by double-clicking, then people are going to double-click. You can't stop people doing things the easy way except by actually preventing it from working.
(Corrupting the data silently so they may not notice doesn't count as preventing it from working)