OT "Standing in a queue"

I remember the days when software engineers writing BSD didn't know about queues. They had "queues" where processes waited and when an event came in they woke up all the processes waiting. The performance was abysmal until someone had the obvious idea of putting them in a queue and only waking one.

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dennis
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Administartive ones as calcluated by my mothers care home. There are 31 days in december therefore to calculate the yearly amount you multiply 31X12 to get teh number of days. Then as we calculate it as a weekly amount there are 7 days in a week so ea ch week you need to pay us, 12 X 31/7 = 53.14 weeks per year.

So it's £750 per week so that's £39,855 per year so divide that by 12 s o you can pay us £3321.25 monthly and a month in advance .

It took a few 'discussions' before we convinved them that there werent; 53 weeks in a year and not every month had 31 days in it.

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whisky-dave

It's known about, but won't be used except by computing professionals.

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Tim Streater

But wing, silencer, boot, and bonnet are not.

Do try not to make a fool of yourself by talking c*ck. I worked in the US for 12 years, but that doesn't mean I'm an Inner.

Pavement in the US means any paved area, including what we would call a pavement.

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Tim Streater

When you say "paved" are you referring to paving stones (which are usually concrete, not stone, slabs) or do you mean any hard smooth surface such as paving stones, concrete or tarmac?

Which gets me onto another Americanism - the use of "cement" to mean mortar or concrete rather than the grey powder which is a constituent of mortar (cement, sand and water) and concrete (cement, sand, aggregate (stones) and water). Given that they use "cement" to mean the hard finished product, I wonder what word they use for the raw material grey powder?

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NY

They have dirt in their yards, where we have soil in our gardens.

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Chris Hogg

+1 It's every 4 weeks simple as that. Alternatively you can be paid weekly.
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bert

A good illustration of the level of people running care homes.

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bert

And in the 'yard', the bit with vegetables is often called a 'garden'.

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S Viemeister

No, they wouldn't. Even a computer engineer or computer scientist or software engineer would use "line" when talking to on-specialists in the general sense, such as describing themselves queueing up at a game or at the store.

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Tim Streater

I don't think it mattered what it was paved with.

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Tim Streater

And most administrative processes it;s even wore here at times. I'm hoping the medical care is better than their admin but if they are payi ng minimuim wage or now living wage to those carers and nurses what are the admin on I'd say triple living wage as the minium that's what it's like he re.

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whisky-dave

Level of honesty and morality, that is.

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Bob Eager

In article , Tim Streater writes

Gold?

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bert

And I'm sure that the nice folk who started this whole silly argument off were perfectly aware of that - but they could be pretty sure that the usual suspects would jump up & down yelling...

One must never let anything stand in the way of a good grumble.

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Sam Plusnet

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