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imc

This week's geekery

Feb 17, 2007 01:33

About three weeks ago one of our research groups took delivery of an expensive serverwhich went into our machine room. Although it's from Sun it's based on 64-bit ( Read more... )

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Comments 6

bopeepsheep February 17 2007, 09:42:22 UTC

I didn't get that one! Humph. My most recent YG poll was all about buying music on the internet vs. illegally downloading it.

atreic February 17 2007, 09:56:24 UTC

Having a stupid moment - is your problem with the first one that numbers are a continuum, not discrete in pounds? I'm not sure what the problem with the second is (the fact it's radio buttons, not ticky boxes, so once you've thought people aged 50 are old people aged 60 are off the hook, or the continuum of age, or the fact it's a rather strange question?) No idea what's wrong with the third one, except "DVD/ video/ LCD/ Plasma TV" is a strange grouping of things. But yes, even I can see the last one is stupid!

imc February 17 2007, 10:54:16 UTC

OK, first one: read it carefully and tell me which one you'd pick if your salary were 30,500. The rest you've pretty much sussed. For the age one, I want to say something like "people over 70 are old", not "people between 70 and 74 are old". I've no idea what "DVD/ video/ LCD/ Plasma TV" actually means - do I tick it if I own a DVD player, or does it have to be built into the TV? I suspect actually it was meant to be two separate questions.

atreic February 17 2007, 11:58:15 UTC

read it carefully

Doh! I am not that observant first thing in the morning!

shadowphiar February 17 2007, 11:42:43 UTC

What if I have a "chat room forum" on my own website, through which people have told me about items on eBay I subsequently bid on?

(like this...)

oldbloke February 18 2007, 11:00:10 UTC

I ordered some curtains once, to be 1.5 metres, guess what they did?

1m5cm, obv.

Doh!

Had similar problems trying to explain their error to them.