Re: Just a thought
"if these investors are selling due to moral outrage, who do they expect to buy the stake?"
Paedophiles.
And, possibly, terrorists.
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'"Our Pro customers like you are really important to us. Although we didn't have a chance to talk about a new Mac Pro at [this week's] event, don't worry as we're working on something really great for later next year," he wrote.'
After which, he immediately picked up the phone and rang the Mac Pro team. "Start working on an update that we can call 'really great' when we announce it next year..."
" The platform works across devices, tracking and monitoring the online activity data of consumers stored in logs including browsing history, web page content, search queries, emails, instant messages, videos from webcams, gestures from a computing device, e.g., Microsoft Kinect and results from online games."
So on the one hand we have the so-called eu cookie law, which is a pile of crap but at least the idea is to protect privacy from tracking on the web, and on the other hand we have Microsoft who want to take tracking to a whole new and far more sinister level.
"Those sites" - so presumably you're including LinkedIn in your claim.
In which case, the icon you chose is incorrect; Sherlock wears a deerstalker, not a tinfoil hat.
(I have never accessed LinkedIn on my phone, let alone on a brand of phone I will not own)
To be fair, the quote is actually "three sets of overlapping circles" rather than "three overlapping circles". What defines a set in this case, and how many circles is in one, is anyone's guess. (Mine is that by "three sets..." he really meant there were three different sizes used. It looks to me as though a number of circles at three different sizes could be used to create the logo.
According to that page, my password was on the list. "Was" because I changed it as soon as I read about the problem - I haven't seen any emails from LinkedIn, though. (I suppose it's possible they're only sending the email to those who's passwords are unchanged but, somehow, that seems unlikely.)
There's a part of me that wants to turn to Twitter and say something like:
"Crap! Apple are trying to get the competition banned yet again. They've a week to get their shit together or I'm blowing Cupertino sky high!"
Problem is, either some damned fool will take it seriously and I'll be facing extradition to Overpuddle, or, if that fails, Apple's lawyers will contact Paul Chambers and offer to sue me on his behalf for copyright infringement or something.
Well, according to the first sentence of this article, which says "Apple’s iCloud service crashed for ninety minutes on Monday, US time" it seems that Overpuddlian time may indeed differ from hours - though how by much isn't made clear.
Perhaps you've worked it out. :)
I think it's FF Enzo Black
In my defence for being such a sad git that I looked it up, I was hoping I could legitimately identify the font and then suitably pun its real name. I was wrong.
I'm not aware of a RISC OS 1, and the first version of RISC OS released was RISC OS 2 - not too long after the Archimedes was brought out with Arthur.
I've always assumed, therefore, that (although it's never been said anywhere, AFAIK) Arthur was, in effect, RISC OS 1, but just wasn't called that at the time.
And having said that, even if my assumption was correct, it still might not have been the first: Wasn't there a ARM processor for the BBC using the tube interface? If so, what ran on that? (Or was it just an internal thing, when they were developing the ARM?)
I'm confused about where Holby City even is.
Casualty used to be filmed in Bristol, but set in the fictional Holby. As a result, Holby just happened to share a number of landmarks with Bristol, even having its very own Clifton Suspension Bridge. (My, Brunel was busy that week!). Now it's moved to Cardiff, and suddenly all of Holby's familiar landmarks have vanished, to be replaced by others.
Holby City, on the other hand, as far as I know isn't even filmed in Bristol to start with, except exterior shots, which are - or were. If they're still using Bristol, are the two shows not somewhat inconsistent now?
I couldn't agree more.
What's worse is a combination of inconsistency and lack of labelling.
If the site doesn't say "Keep your filthy spaces off me, you damned dirty serf" I instinctively enter the spaces. And if I'm able to enter the full number with spaces (ie the field isn't limited to 16 characters), I'll carry on... and only find out they didn't want them when the transaction fails.
Because programming the system to automatically remove them is such a difficult task.
Or maybe some twat's gone and patented doing that, so everyone else has stopped doing it.
" As usual, this type of scam best benefits small indy computer repair shops and IT savvy friends who can get a decent income in removing these types of malware."
In the case of my friends (and family) that IT savvy guy is me - except there's no decent income from doing it, becauseI don't usually charge them.
However, I have decided to change that - if they have to pay for my time then maybe, just maybe, they'll learn to be more careful in future.
One exception: I was offered payment once: an ex colleage rang me when his laprop had an infection. He said he was near my place, and could drop it in to fix it, and said he'd give me a tenner for my time, describing it as 'a nice cash in the hand job' - what a crying shame I was out, then, because I'm always looking to undervalue my time by such a ridiculous amount (not charging at all notwithstanding)
Way back in the mists of time <cue strange swirly effect> I used Bode's Law for the coursework in a maths GCSE I took (for fun - already had an o level). I aimed to prove it by applying it to Jupiter's moons. There were a few anomalies (just as in the solar system itself), but it broadly fit.
(I think I then took the coursework in the direction of using Bode's Law to fill in some of the numbers in the Drake equation...)
I ought to try searching for the original document. I must have it still, somewhere.
" I'm always puzzled when people come out with this sort of thing. What exactly has Jessica Alba got that thousands of other women don't have?"
Nothing. He was probably just naming an attractive woman that a large umber of readers would recognise to illustrate the humourously intended point that bagging a gorgeous, but out of reach woman should be a higher priority to a teenage boy than getting a couple of shiny new toys. That if you're going to put your life at risk, there are better things to aim for as a reward.
Personally, I'd rather keep my organs - I'm rather attached to them. Badumtish!
" The number of porn sites on the internet is one of the closes approximations to infinity known to mathematics. Their rate of expansion is also astronomical."
"Yes, I'd like to register as over 18, please, so I can access pornographic websites. I'm an astronomer, you see, and I'm attempting to make a comparative study of the number of stars with the number of pornographic websites, as well as the rate of growth in terms of that number and the size of the Universe..."
" If you can mangle the spelling and grammar as well, that adds reasonable doubt over what you actually said, or meant. Some might argue that a large proportion of internet users have been doing this for years."
And there was me thinking the vast majority of internet users were just thick. The reality is that they're all clever bastards who saw this coming, and it was me being thick all along.
> After an hour of banal gibbering, he said: "What's your favourite car?"
> I replied: "I don't like cars."
> Undeterred, he insisted: "Yes, but if you did like cars, what would be your favourite?"
This does remind me of the sort of question I get from time to time, when asking about something where the answer depends on oh so many different factors. Probably the worst one was when I upgraded someone's hard drive, and they asked how many files the new drive would hold. Answer: "It depends what you put on it." Response: "But you're an expert, you must have some idea."
Yes, most of those titles are cheaper on Apple's store, but that's the point - the allegation is that Apple are mandating the same book* can't be cheaper elsewhere, not that it can't be more expensive elsewhere.
* I'd guess that means the same edition, which might (or might not) explain the one that's cheaper on Amazon in your list. Or there might be another explanation.