More retarded BS from my IT teacher... is he correct?

Nothing much changes then, and it doesn't get any better as you get further up the system either.

1990. Staffordshire Polytechnic (now University).

We had a logic exercise set by a tutor (not a lecturer) to design an XOR gate using only NAND gates. The tutor absolutely insisted that it required five gates. The whole class told him he was wrong, but he wouldn't have it.

In the end, someone had to prove the answer to show his error.

We didn't get that tutor again. :D

PS - Answer, courtesy Wikipedia (which obviously didn't exist then).
 
Your teacher is a tard. Educate him.

These are the 05/06 prices but the current ones should be on display in any cab which meter charges

london-taxi.co.uk said:
Below are details of the 2005/06 taxi tariff. The figures quoted include an environmental charge of 20p per trip to meet the cost of emissions reduction equipment. Other extra charges may be included in the final fare.
For any hiring during Monday to Friday other than on a public holiday between 6am and 8pm (Tariff 1):
For the first 335.8 metres or 72.2 seconds (whichever is reached first) there is a minimum charge of £2.20;
For each additional 167.9 metres or 36.1 seconds (whichever is reached first), or part thereof, if the fare is less than £13.40 then there is a charge of 20p;
Once the fare is £13.40 or greater then there is a charge of 20p for each additional 117.7 metres or 25.3 seconds (whichever is reached first), or part thereof.
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Minicabs may charge on a place to place basis to avoid metering and some metered taxis do set prices for set distances, eg airport runs.
 
I remember when in College, my IT lecturer tried teaching us about PHP, MySQL and Apache.

Oh what fun, he showed us Dreamweavers automatic php/mysql stuff, then proceeded to look through an apache config, see a commented line saying Port 3000, and told everyone that Apache runs on a TCP/IP port 3000.

Naturally, being a Linux user and PHP developer of 5-6 years at the time, I proceeded to correct him, explaining that the line saying #Port 3000, was commented, and just an example. I also explained that Apache, would usually run on Port 80, just like any other web server.

His respose was, # wasn't a comment, it's a command, and that it's proposterous that Apache runs on Port 80, because IIS does.

I walked out there and then, and never returned. Seriously.
 
Seeing as no-one has directly mentioned this yet, the actual number of different routes between x destinations is (x * (x-1))/2

So, conservatively estimating 25 million different destinations in the UK (~1 per household) that would make over 300 trillion routes in the database.
It would be double this if you have x -> y and y -> x as separate routes.
 
Had an interesting moment with one of my IT lecturers yesterday. She was talking about proprietary formats and used the new HD medias as an example and was talking about bluray and 'another one i can't remember the name of' and how no one knows which one will win. I put up my hand and asked her if she meant HDDVD to which she replied 'yes', so i pointed out HDDVD players and disks went out of production months ago.

She then became convinced it wasn't HDDVD and there was in fact a third HD media format that's just come out. I've never heard of it, is she right or just covering her tracks?
 
Streeteh said:
She then became convinced it wasn't HDDVD and there was in fact a third HD media format that's just come out. I've never heard of it, is she right or just covering her tracks?
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I suspect she is just trying to backtrack, why would you release a new format against one that has already won? It would have to offer significant advantages (cost/quality etc) against Bluray but more importantly would have to get the distribution channels organised and a lot of deals signed up as being technically superior is no guarantee of success.
 
As said previously they are charge by a minumum price when starting, then a tarriff of (distance and time waited) for upto a certain distance, then another tarriff there on after a certain set distance.

Others can be set prices, but are generally not based on a computer database, just local knowledge.
 
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