dcminter

If you want justice you'd better hope the Judge follows the law instead of his own opinions and prejudices.

I'm in the UK as is the original poster. I'm not complaining, I'm just unable (at present) to do this. Even if I could search for a locker I still wouldn't be able to use one without the option on che…

Sounds great in theory. In practice I've not yet seen the option on checkout (which is apparently the only point at which you can search for suitable lockers).

I've often thought that an alliance with Starbucks or one of the other all-pervasive coffeeshops would work well. ${courier} delivers to a locker at ${coffeeshop} during working hours. Customer picks …

I was half inclined to flag it but let's just say I recognized your tone of mind :-)

While this is perhaps more rant than insight it's quite true that in the UK the courier firms are painful for individuals to use (not so much a problem for businesses I think). The classic example - I…

There is a need to manipulate relational data from object oriented code. ORMs are tools that facilitate that. The Object/Relational impedance problem doesn't go away if you hand-carve the code, it jus…

Ack. Always address one of the recipients by name in the body of the email to ensure that it's not SEP'ed.

The Thinkpad keyboard is a significant asset. It's the primary thing that keeps me a customer (though the high build quality is also a factor). I can deal with a change in the mechanics (oh how I miss…

If I write something down I'm far more likely to remember it than if I just sit back and listen. I never actually read my notes at university - they were purely to help me fix things in my mind. It dr…

Any afficionados of Ceefax might enjoy the spoof from the DVD of "Look Around You" - itself a wonderful pastiche on the BBC's 1970s "programmes for schools" public service broadcasts. http://www.yout…

For every rule an exception - data is a perfectly fine name for the scenario where we don't know what data the variable represents. For example in a logging framework that has to loop over the conte…

I don't really disagree with anything you're saying there - but if AV hadn't fouled their results I doubt I'd ever have bothered to try Google.

I don't think Google were the first to do search well - in my opinion that was DEC's AltaVista. But Altavista and the other keyword matchers suffered from the later pollution of their results by spamm…

"Organic" in this context just means carbon chemistry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_chemistry

In the short term, until enhancements like 38262 Outline view (née 3959 under OO) are taken seriously I very much doubt that office's core market of document creators will be threatened by LibreOffice…

It's the ignoring not the complexity that's frustrating. I'm suffering from an annoying bug in Google Groups. I've raised it a few times and it disappears into the void. Next time there's a bug, even …

He certainly seems quite enthusiastic about them in this making-of promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apD2CFEJ0MY

Academic publishing seems to be messed up but I'm not sure this is a good demonstration of that. Of the three links that you cite to online copies two no longer link to the article. So while your $32 …

An interesting excerpt from Accidental Empires (a great read) where this is discussed in passing: http://books.google.com/books?id=QMrfJ-OVIp4C&lpg=PA321&... …

Oh and what I meant to say before I started rambling - I remember being super impressed that my paperback copy of "Portable Unix" was larger than the disk media (2 x 1.44Mb diskettes) that encompassed…

I started with the root and boot disks - then moved onto the Soft Landing System (SLS) disk set. From that to Slackware on 100 odd disks. I remember getting a pal at Cambridge University (nice fat pip…

The thing that impressed me most at an F1 race was that the gear changes - a barely audible deep pop-pop-popping noise on TV - on corners could be physically felt in your chest. Until the second and s…

If you're going to quote Douglas Adams, then the Total Perspective Vortex seems even more apt: "And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex--just to show her. And into one end, he plugged the whole o…

Do you mean method local variables? Because if so it doesn't - it copies them and only allows you to reference them if they're declared final (const) for exactly that reason.

I'm a contractor in the UK and I get the "references first" request very often. I always say no. As far as I can tell this only happens when the agency doesn't have a real job and is just looking for …

I think the SL models are dangerously diluting the brand - the standard Thinkpad keyboard and touchpoint is a powerful selling point. Plus I can't readily get my hands on a Thinkpad (even an SL) to tr…

To me the joy of Adams' humour was his elevation of the mundane. I think this is a perfect example; the fun of this simple little paragraph is that the reality was so parochial but the thing became an…

Reminiscent of the classic 'John, where Peter had had "had" had had "had had". "Had had" had had the examiner's approval.'