I had noticed that a few months ago - in "The Autobiography of Mark Twain" they include exact transcripts of telegraph messages from his papers; and there's a lot of text-style abbreviation. "U" "Pls" "4" etc. (I assume you paid based on length?)
I wonder if there were 1890s grammar-nazis whining about the inevitable demise of the English language too?
Ah, I see the problem. In Firefox and Chrome, both produce a "save file" dialog. In IE I get a page - "Forbidden Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Blocked".
> the amount of time at which this link will receive half of the clicks it will ever receive after it’s reached its peak
Whoa whoa whoa. Either that is really badly phrased, or it's not a half-life. You don't *know* and you can't ever know how many clicks the link will EVER receive. It's quite possibly an infinite number, even if it decays to one click a week, that still adds up to infinity when you say 'ever'.
I *think* what they mean is the time it takes to half the number of clicks per minute it's getting, surely? At least that's the thing that analogous to atomic half-life.
Yes, it is odd taht Labour are being so silent on this issue about the rampaging feral rich. But then I suppose there might be some embaressment because New Labour largely set them loose to run free.
*Nod* I think they need to finish their slow reinvention before they get to say anything without being laughed out of the house. Ed probably went about as far as he could saying (was it on Newsnight? I think it was) that they had been wrong to be so famously 'intensely relaxed' about the super-rich. It's a small comfort, but it's there. Fingers crossed, eh?
True, true, though for every step forward Ed seems to make, there is another step backwards somewhere else. I wonder if he's fighting his own party on it.
Does this mean the party leaders will encourage gay rights and attempt to end homophobia in the UK as well, or are they going to focus on the more flagrant abuses abroad?
Well, they're talking about gay marriage at the moment, and for a Conservative-led government have been surprisingly nice about the whole thing (with a few screaming exceptions).
I didn't just mean the government, I meant Britain in general, particularly sections of the media and sport are not always notably tolerant and accepting.
Re. The Rules of Productivity, I am well and often painfully aware that on slow sleep, I am very stupid. I actually feel stupid at those times -- of not having my usual facility of putting ideas together.
There's a Dilbert cartoon about meeting company demands for production in limited time, and the PHB suggests "have you tried sacrificing your health?"
In real life, employers want you to get a good night's sleep: they just want you to sacrifice everything except work and sleep to do it. "Were you out partying again, ha ha!?", managers joke, but they're ha ha only serious.
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I wonder if there were 1890s grammar-nazis whining about the inevitable demise of the English language too?
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They're both working fine for me. What problem are you encountering?
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Problem Exists Between Workstation and Internet.
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Whoa whoa whoa.
Either that is really badly phrased, or it's not a half-life. You don't *know* and you can't ever know how many clicks the link will EVER receive. It's quite possibly an infinite number, even if it decays to one click a week, that still adds up to infinity when you say 'ever'.
I *think* what they mean is the time it takes to half the number of clicks per minute it's getting, surely? At least that's the thing that analogous to atomic half-life.
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The usual example.
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In real life, employers want you to get a good night's sleep: they just want you to sacrifice everything except work and sleep to do it. "Were you out partying again, ha ha!?", managers joke, but they're ha ha only serious.