Re: You stuck a label with your mobile phone number....on the back of your mobile?
Yeah, point taken.
Maybe they should require at least the caller's Social Security number, so they can verify first.
OK, the police'll do this automagically for you.
Going down well in Blighty? It was a SHOCK! I tell you - SHOCK!! to discover in the Daily Flail (Saturday) that (apparently) some garages read your number plate to verify you're not a known petrol thief, before they'll dispense petrol...
OK, I was used to this in the US, but all you had to do was take your credit card to the cashier, swipe, then you could fill up.
Finland's got it licked. No attendants. Machines accept notes or CC's, THEN you can fill up. Simples.
You stuck a label with your mobile phone number....on the back of your mobile?
Not stupid at all. Dunno about anywhere else, but in my country I just call a number (118?) and the operator tells me the name and address of the person. Some elect to have this info. withheld, but I reckon the benefits override privacy.
Apparently residents of other countries don't have such good options as you do in the UK.
Dunno. Where I live, there was a temporary outage of panOulu - the city-wide free network. I was in adult education at the time, and a lot of folks were griping they couldn't use their online Finnish - English/Persian/Gaelic directories anymore.
Got the N8 out, fired up Joikuspot, tethered the phone, broadcast the WiFi without password, everyone happy. I'm uncapped, but I was surprised how (relatively) little data transferred. Less than a gig. for most of the classes on my floor. They got 'acceptable' bandwidth, too.
Dunno what country you're in, but I'm in Finland. About as metric as can be. Yet, my bike tyres are measured in INCHES (24"), and the wheelnuts are WHITWORTH!!! **
Bike* is of Finnish design, but nowadays made in Taiwan...Go figure!
Somebody should've told Steve Jobs about those "Shafts of Wit" (no, no, Dr. Spooner...Nooo!!)
It's cultural, of course. My boss (at one time head of a department at Nokia) would wear a t-shirt and jeans. I guess the reason was to ensure we were all in a team - but this was Finland. Can't imagine the same behaviour in, for example Germany, where to 'roll your sleeves up' is regarded as slovenly.
(The shirt doesn't matter that much, unless people are so stupid as to be judging you by your clothes, not by ability)
IDEA! If the head of IT has the same IT experience, why doesn't he/she take the ENTIRE IT department on a 'fact-finding mission' to...Seattle...moldovia...Finland, even....for a week on the understanding they can't take phones, nor read e-mails.
Interesting result.
(Of course, the might return to find the entire department has been farmed out to an Indian helpdesk, but...)
OK, my current 'work experience' is to 1) design a video capture system (done), and 2) create an internal network to turn the old building into a cultural powerhouse, with an internal network, webserver, and several computers.
If I can't finish the task to the PHB's satisfaction, I could lose my dole for 90 "werkin daze'" As it's "work experience" I get an extra €9 per "werkin' day".
Now, I am to IT as a ballet-dancer is to hod-carrying. I'm a radio engineer, FFS.
Windows Server 2008 R2? Never played with it.
Anyway, I arrive duly every morning at 09:00 and struggle. Struggle? OK, the 'office' (OK, desk) is in an "Asukastupa" (Citizen's house) - a place in each subdistrict that anyone can go to, to use Internet, do sewing, take some strange course like "Psychic Writing", learn a language, eat cheap food, chat, etc. The area is populated by many immigrants. Somalians, mainly, who take advantage of the facilities. Great, that's what they're for! (asukastpa's, not somalians)
BUT, we have limited bandwidth.
So, when someone wants to watch their fave Arabic movie, I haven't a chance of getting a page on the internet. Boss is no help, spending most of his time in a remote "office" (=home). In fact, when he buys the Dell R510 - 2xquad-cores, 12 raid-6 disks he's been convinced to buy, I cannot imagine in the 2 months left I can work out how to deal ANYTHING about it. (God knows why he needs such computing power on the first shot...expand as you grow, surely?)
If I hit him over the head with the Dell, he wouldn't know that was the server I'm supposed to setup.
You guys earn reasonable money. I'm kept awake for the price of a couple of beers per night (werkin daze Only!)
"I have even had one company tell me they were putting my Overalls down as a tax benefit as it was possible to use them at home."
Christ, almost snorted again! I'm sure whoever told you that would have put his/her suit down as tax-exempt. And, naturally left them at work, driving home in T-shirt and jeans...
On a 'free-seat' flight Helsinki-Oulu - not fully loaded - I found a dual seat.
First: Sit on the aisle seat, with the seat next you unoccupied.
Second, hang your coat up on the SPARE seat's hanger.
Third, most, most important if you want a peaceful flight... Take out and hold the 'sick-bag', shake a bit if you can if someone looks like they want to sit there. Open it, if necessary, and peer into it as the others board.
(OK, I never tried THIS extreme, but I'd love to. Empty a pot of coleslaw into the bag, and eat it with a plastic fork).
A vertical line from each balloon to the end of the truss it's above, another diagonal line from each balloon to the opposite end of the truss?
with the higher balloon now providing more lift, the lower balloon has less work to do, so can rise and maintain equilibrium.
To prevent LORAN hitting the lines, mount it on a small pier at 90 degrees from the centre of the truss. Have a similar 'pier' on the other side with a counterweight, to maintain balance.
This could easily be tested with a couple of cheap party helium-filled balloons (naturally, not 'scientifically filled - there will be an imbalance) , some strong fishing nylon line, a long bit of bamboo (to replicate the truss) and an observer about a couple of kilometres away - preferably on a hill - , armed with a humongously good telescope, or a big telephoto lens on a tripod-mounted (video?) camera. Material cost? About a tenner.
Just a thought.
Truss, indeed! "I thank you for your support. I shall wash it and return it presently"
That'll be a British sauna, stoked up to something warm-ish, like 60C
Try it in a Finnish one, wound up to 95C.
You wouldn't be able to touch the bloody phone after 10 minutes! Even the glass of a bottle of beer gets unbearably hot after a short time. (But Finns have 'grunt' and will bear the temperature of the bottle as long as the alcohol hasn't been persuaded to evaporate...)
Re: Re: "Interesting". Its funny actually what a close resemblance to certain aspects.....
I have to agree.
I'm on the 'Dole' - yet I have a 3-month contract to design a viable Audio/Visual studio - which I have. Network design's next... It's called work experience. (I love it - chance to learn something different from GSM/3G)
Yet, I get an extra €9/day - tax free, in addition to my €450 (after tax) for being unemployed.
The extra money is designed to pay for my monthly bus pass, and lunch.
Now, if the UK Gummint could pay a bit, like 150/month, folks would clamour for this. But, no. Refuse a job, which you can't afford to get to, and forage garbage bins for food.
The helium balloons are now to be referred to as 'Bulgarian Airbags'. Well, they'll save a playmobil 'naught from a fate worse than meltdown, I expect....
When I used to fly microlights, someone came up with the most stupid suggestion to blu-tak a piece of cotton to the front strut, thus one could tell from which direction the airflow was coming.
It made its way into the BMAA (British Microlight Aircraft Association)' monthly rag.
No-one thought that, if the plane is flying forward, in whatever air was about, it'd always point backwards. Dullards.
it's a 4-digit number, allocated by the bank which I can't change. 3 wrong tries and the ATM swallows the card, blows the chip, or the shop cashier receives a message that she must retain it.
Hard to remember?
No - I write it on the back of the card, coded with an algorithm only I know (no, not inversion, shifting, etc. Much more evil) If I forget the number, I can always remember the algorithm, as it's the same for all 4 cards I own.
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Re: You stuck a label with your mobile phone number....on the back of your mobile?
Yeah, point taken.
Maybe they should require at least the caller's Social Security number, so they can verify first.
OK, the police'll do this automagically for you.
Going down well in Blighty? It was a SHOCK! I tell you - SHOCK!! to discover in the Daily Flail (Saturday) that (apparently) some garages read your number plate to verify you're not a known petrol thief, before they'll dispense petrol...
OK, I was used to this in the US, but all you had to do was take your credit card to the cashier, swipe, then you could fill up.
Finland's got it licked. No attendants. Machines accept notes or CC's, THEN you can fill up. Simples.
The time should be quoted in Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4). We switched this past Sunday.
Great move! So the folks in EDT can switch to Farenheit at the same time...so, EDT and Libyan temperature are now aligned?
Sorry, folks, but I'll stick to UT.
(I suppose this would equate why a US Dollar theoretically would have a different value on the West coast, as the East coast?)
Launching 5 at once?
Worried about "carbon tax?"
OTOH, I'd love to have that nice big box of matches...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/21/international-airlines-carbon-emissions?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
You stuck a label with your mobile phone number....on the back of your mobile?
Not stupid at all. Dunno about anywhere else, but in my country I just call a number (118?) and the operator tells me the name and address of the person. Some elect to have this info. withheld, but I reckon the benefits override privacy.
Apparently residents of other countries don't have such good options as you do in the UK.
Dunno. Where I live, there was a temporary outage of panOulu - the city-wide free network. I was in adult education at the time, and a lot of folks were griping they couldn't use their online Finnish - English/Persian/Gaelic directories anymore.
Got the N8 out, fired up Joikuspot, tethered the phone, broadcast the WiFi without password, everyone happy. I'm uncapped, but I was surprised how (relatively) little data transferred. Less than a gig. for most of the classes on my floor. They got 'acceptable' bandwidth, too.
Wouldn't you have to be in close proximity to the hobo?
Homeless? Might pong a bit....
Well, it stuffed Facebook yesterday...
I, for one, welcome our CME (Corona Mass Ejaculating) Overlords.
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This thread should've been closed for comments.
I'm actually seriously wondering why El. Reg. decided there should be any comments. No real IT angle, just angst.
PIRATTITUDE!!!
We need more before the next Solar Fart.
Now, me beauties, shut yer left eye and go "Avast!"
Else, the world will turn to a blob of tomato sauce - not ordinary tomato sauce, but the stuff the Great Unwashed buy from Lidl.
I'd rather goto hell.
Re: Beer!
You're taking the piss!
This will sell beautifully in third-world countries...
...like Britain.
"Microsoft encourages developers to be careful with their memory use "
Ha, Haha, hahaha (snort) ahahaha.
Chortle. Snort.
OK, take a lesson on memory management from the Great God Vista.
Wahahaha! (Help me from the floor, someone...)
Re: And yet..
"correctly typing teh"...
Joke, surely?
FSM?
Makes me glad to be a midget!
Re: I just went ouside, looked up
Must be neighbours, 65 North equates to my town Oulu...
Pi-day??
Shouldn't they move the date to 16/March?
That'd be a "Fri-day"
(Mine's on order...)
Re: Brave bugger.
You're a better man than me, Gunga Din.
S'funny...
Why is it when they test a deep submersible, they take it to 'crush depth', to make sure it doesn't.
Fill it with a few squishy 'jobseekers' for good measure.
Never understood why they don't test aircraft the same way, and give the squishies parachu...
Oh, wait...
Assembly?
Go even lower, if you like.
I was working on Nicolet 440 Spectrum Analysers, where you'd have to know microcode/machine language. 44 bits/instruction? Doddle.
The same thing happens in the laptop on a script-kiddie's sofa, but he just don't know it.
Brave bugger.
Damn sure I wouldn't do that.
<Meatloaf> "I'd do anything for love..but I won't do THAT </Meatloaf>
Re: Only about a fifth of my life has been spent in Blighty ...
"Now, tell me again how sheeps' bladders can be used to prevent issue..."
(Thanks Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Saved my day!)
$3,450 ?
So, he was doing it for the Lul$ after all...
Correction!
Tried several times before on same monitor with no success, but now (Win2K--> Ubuntu - different frame rates?) the N8 reads the code reliably...
Bloody QR codes....
Recently there were two job ads. in both the local paper, and on screen*.
Nothing else, except the agency's name - probably a legal requirement.
Only if you had a phone to read the code, did you get the URL and thus pass Stage One.
Try writing a covering letter on the laughable office suite on a Nokia N8..
*On a screen, needless to say, the thing could NEVER work, hence EPIC FAIL!!!
"God Himself couldn't sink this ship"
Seems he did...
Myth - BUSTED!
Got me this morning also
Finland was out, too, at about 7:30 local time. (5:30 GMT). Okay when I tried it about 10-ish. No big deal.
"Feng brandished his chopper and they dispersed..." <snigger>
Well, chinese are not noted for...
Maybe they just went to SpecSavers, to buy a better pair....
He'll get his pink slip soon enough.
Too much irrepairable damage.
Tux Droid, anyone?
Mine sits forlornly in the corner, 'cos its stupid owner (me) backed up onto a dodgy CD before a full system reinstall.
Now the company has gone tits-up, I can't get the software for it.
Will this go the same way?
Re: 7.85"
Your bike is metric???
Dunno what country you're in, but I'm in Finland. About as metric as can be. Yet, my bike tyres are measured in INCHES (24"), and the wheelnuts are WHITWORTH!!! **
Bike* is of Finnish design, but nowadays made in Taiwan...Go figure!
*http://www.finnishdesignshop.com/outdoor-bicycles-jopo-bicycle-white-p-2831.html
**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Standard_Whitworth
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Re: No, Shirts DO Matter
Somebody should've told Steve Jobs about those "Shafts of Wit" (no, no, Dr. Spooner...Nooo!!)
It's cultural, of course. My boss (at one time head of a department at Nokia) would wear a t-shirt and jeans. I guess the reason was to ensure we were all in a team - but this was Finland. Can't imagine the same behaviour in, for example Germany, where to 'roll your sleeves up' is regarded as slovenly.
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I'm hoping...
..it'll take me back to my Sinclair MK14 days. I learnt a helluvalot from that era.
Re: Yep
Partially agree..
(The shirt doesn't matter that much, unless people are so stupid as to be judging you by your clothes, not by ability)
IDEA! If the head of IT has the same IT experience, why doesn't he/she take the ENTIRE IT department on a 'fact-finding mission' to...Seattle...moldovia...Finland, even....for a week on the understanding they can't take phones, nor read e-mails.
Interesting result.
(Of course, the might return to find the entire department has been farmed out to an Indian helpdesk, but...)
Cor, you think you've got problems..
OK, my current 'work experience' is to 1) design a video capture system (done), and 2) create an internal network to turn the old building into a cultural powerhouse, with an internal network, webserver, and several computers.
If I can't finish the task to the PHB's satisfaction, I could lose my dole for 90 "werkin daze'" As it's "work experience" I get an extra €9 per "werkin' day".
Now, I am to IT as a ballet-dancer is to hod-carrying. I'm a radio engineer, FFS.
Windows Server 2008 R2? Never played with it.
Anyway, I arrive duly every morning at 09:00 and struggle. Struggle? OK, the 'office' (OK, desk) is in an "Asukastupa" (Citizen's house) - a place in each subdistrict that anyone can go to, to use Internet, do sewing, take some strange course like "Psychic Writing", learn a language, eat cheap food, chat, etc. The area is populated by many immigrants. Somalians, mainly, who take advantage of the facilities. Great, that's what they're for! (asukastpa's, not somalians)
BUT, we have limited bandwidth.
So, when someone wants to watch their fave Arabic movie, I haven't a chance of getting a page on the internet. Boss is no help, spending most of his time in a remote "office" (=home). In fact, when he buys the Dell R510 - 2xquad-cores, 12 raid-6 disks he's been convinced to buy, I cannot imagine in the 2 months left I can work out how to deal ANYTHING about it. (God knows why he needs such computing power on the first shot...expand as you grow, surely?)
If I hit him over the head with the Dell, he wouldn't know that was the server I'm supposed to setup.
You guys earn reasonable money. I'm kept awake for the price of a couple of beers per night (werkin daze Only!)
Re: Conspiracy
MOSSAD. OK, so they've 3 weeks to nuke the "nukes" in Iraq ("Eye-wrack" for our western friends).
Re: Cough....Giggle....Snort...Hack
"I have even had one company tell me they were putting my Overalls down as a tax benefit as it was possible to use them at home."
Christ, almost snorted again! I'm sure whoever told you that would have put his/her suit down as tax-exempt. And, naturally left them at work, driving home in T-shirt and jeans...
Sod-my-Guts.
Tried this once, hugely successful...
On a 'free-seat' flight Helsinki-Oulu - not fully loaded - I found a dual seat.
First: Sit on the aisle seat, with the seat next you unoccupied.
Second, hang your coat up on the SPARE seat's hanger.
Third, most, most important if you want a peaceful flight... Take out and hold the 'sick-bag', shake a bit if you can if someone looks like they want to sit there. Open it, if necessary, and peer into it as the others board.
(OK, I never tried THIS extreme, but I'd love to. Empty a pot of coleslaw into the bag, and eat it with a plastic fork).
Makes Mr. Bean look tame....
@ Christoph
Yes, you did. I missed a word. Sorry.
Re: Double balloon with tension lines
Did You mean...
A vertical line from each balloon to the end of the truss it's above, another diagonal line from each balloon to the opposite end of the truss?
with the higher balloon now providing more lift, the lower balloon has less work to do, so can rise and maintain equilibrium.
To prevent LORAN hitting the lines, mount it on a small pier at 90 degrees from the centre of the truss. Have a similar 'pier' on the other side with a counterweight, to maintain balance.
This could easily be tested with a couple of cheap party helium-filled balloons (naturally, not 'scientifically filled - there will be an imbalance) , some strong fishing nylon line, a long bit of bamboo (to replicate the truss) and an observer about a couple of kilometres away - preferably on a hill - , armed with a humongously good telescope, or a big telephoto lens on a tripod-mounted (video?) camera. Material cost? About a tenner.
Just a thought.
Truss, indeed! "I thank you for your support. I shall wash it and return it presently"
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That'll be a British sauna, stoked up to something warm-ish, like 60C
Try it in a Finnish one, wound up to 95C.
You wouldn't be able to touch the bloody phone after 10 minutes! Even the glass of a bottle of beer gets unbearably hot after a short time. (But Finns have 'grunt' and will bear the temperature of the bottle as long as the alcohol hasn't been persuaded to evaporate...)
Re: Hmmm...solid stuff in my bloodstream...
It won't be a human, that's for 'bloody' certain.
I first thought "pig", but then - elephant is more likely.
"African or Indian?" "Er..I don't know! - .....WAAAAH!"
Re: Re: "Interesting". Its funny actually what a close resemblance to certain aspects.....
I have to agree.
I'm on the 'Dole' - yet I have a 3-month contract to design a viable Audio/Visual studio - which I have. Network design's next... It's called work experience. (I love it - chance to learn something different from GSM/3G)
Yet, I get an extra €9/day - tax free, in addition to my €450 (after tax) for being unemployed.
The extra money is designed to pay for my monthly bus pass, and lunch.
Now, if the UK Gummint could pay a bit, like 150/month, folks would clamour for this. But, no. Refuse a job, which you can't afford to get to, and forage garbage bins for food.
"but they have small fingers"
Schindler's list reference not lost on me.
I vote....
The helium balloons are now to be referred to as 'Bulgarian Airbags'. Well, they'll save a playmobil 'naught from a fate worse than meltdown, I expect....
Re: Re: Need a stabliser for yaw
Centre of drag??
When I used to fly microlights, someone came up with the most stupid suggestion to blu-tak a piece of cotton to the front strut, thus one could tell from which direction the airflow was coming.
It made its way into the BMAA (British Microlight Aircraft Association)' monthly rag.
No-one thought that, if the plane is flying forward, in whatever air was about, it'd always point backwards. Dullards.
Here in Finland...
it's a 4-digit number, allocated by the bank which I can't change. 3 wrong tries and the ATM swallows the card, blows the chip, or the shop cashier receives a message that she must retain it.
Hard to remember?
No - I write it on the back of the card, coded with an algorithm only I know (no, not inversion, shifting, etc. Much more evil) If I forget the number, I can always remember the algorithm, as it's the same for all 4 cards I own.
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