Ha. A mate and I considered setting up something like Pagemasters years ago. I'm actually quite glad we didn't, for all manner of reasons.
Anyway: fuck it, at least the stuff's getting subbed. But woah, "as little as £45"? Yesterday I did an eight-hour shift -- actually eight and a half, given I stayed late to fix fuck-ups -- and drew/subbed, what ... well, let's say the equivalent of four broadsheet pages. (I drew a total of seven and revised at least one more, but I had some subbing assistance. So I think "drew and subbed" four is just about fair).
Which means (does sums) ... FUCK ME, I AM CHEAP. There's not much chance of our place outsourcing to this lot in a hurry. Wow.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 10:53 (fifteen years ago) link
to fix fuck-ups
Not mine, I should add: rather more fundamental ones, such as the output pages not reaching the print plant.
Oh, and that was eight hours without anything that looked too like a break.
Jesus fucking wept.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe moving back to Australia isn't such a bad idea after all!
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 12:28 (fifteen years ago) link
How would you fix this sentence (from here) so it doesn't sound like most laptops can be recharged 997 times?
Its chief breakthrough is what Apple claims is an eight-hour battery that can be recharged 1,000 times (three times more than most laptops).
― Gorgeous Preppy (G00blar), Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:42 (fifteen years ago) link
thrice as many times
― ledge, Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:44 (fifteen years ago) link
triple the amount of most laptops ?
― ledge, Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
three times more than most laptops' can be
― Alba, Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:49 (fifteen years ago) link
scratch that, I misunderstood
― Alba, Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:50 (fifteen years ago) link
a 300% improvement on most laptops
― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Except it's a 200% improvement
― Alba, Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:53 (fifteen years ago) link
do that whole thing once more = 100% moredo it twice more = 200% moredo it 3 times more = 300% more
or is it???
― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/29/100276794_548c83c4eb.jpg
― Gorgeous Preppy (G00blar), Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha no, I can see my error there actually, you're quite right. x-post
― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Is this time to dig out the original number and say something like "compared to 350 for most laptops"? Maybe that isn't sufficiently punchy, though. Don't ask me, I can barely form a sentence.
― britisher ringpulls (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link
You could dispense with the troublesome "times":
"Its chief breakthrough is what Apple claims is an eight-hour battery that can offers 1,000 recharge cycles (three times as many as most laptops)."
But maybe not enough people know what "recharge cycles" means.
― Alba, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:06 (fifteen years ago) link
(three times more recharges than most laptops)
Can you use recharge as a noun?
― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
"that can offers", rather.
― Alba, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
or (three times more recharge cycles than most laptops) then you've defined cycle already, kind of
OR ...
(three times the number of most laptops)
― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Its chief breakthrough is what Apple claims is an eight-hour battery that can be recharged 1,000 times (a threefold improvement over most laptops).
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Ooh - threefold. How could I forget lovely threefold?
― Alba, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
*applauds*
― Gorgeous Preppy (G00blar), Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually I would have said "triple what other laptops can do" but I guess that's a bit conversational?
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:17 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah I don't think you'd use 'do' in this context
― Gorgeous Preppy (G00blar), Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
triple what other laptops can offer
― Alba, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link
triple what other laptops' batteries can offer?
― Gorgeous Preppy (G00blar), Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:23 (fifteen years ago) link
"Apple laptop batteries come with three times as many complimentary donuts."
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link
three times the recharge cycle lifespan of most other laptops
― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:31 (fifteen years ago) link
three times as often as most other laptops
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Flib flabbity fram jamma!
xpost That makes it sound like you need to charge it more often.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
well, "can be charged three times as often " as opposed to "needs to be charged three times as often" but yeah see your point there.
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
How about more than the work of three normal laptops?
― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Its chief breakthrough is what Apple claims is an eight-hour battery that can be recharged 1,000 times (which would take a thousand monkeys working feverishly at a thousand normal laptops to achieve).
― Gorgeous Preppy (G00blar), Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:03 (fifteen years ago) link
How about just:
"Monkeys!"
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link
"Apple lie about battery life."
― Francisco Javier Sánchez Brot (onimo), Thursday, 15 January 2009 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh god, company names as plural, grrrrr
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 January 2009 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Next you'll be saying band names are singular.
Blur: is shite.
― Francisco Javier Sánchez Brot (onimo), Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, this is ridiculous, but does the word "pants" (in the UK English sense) always mean men's underwear? This is what I am arguing now. Women don't generally wear pants, do they?
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 26 January 2009 10:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, they do. Next.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Monday, 26 January 2009 10:40 (fifteen years ago) link
You're more likely to call them knickers, though.
― Madchen, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, I think I might call them 'pants' as much as 'knickers'.
― Madchen, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I love the fact you appear to have spent a whole minute thinking about that.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 23:54 (fifteen years ago) link
If the planet we live on is the Earth, why is the moon not the Moon?
― Zoe Espera, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Cos that's its name, right? Our moon happens to be called Moon, no?
― Zoe Espera, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Where I work, it's "the Moon" when referring to it as an astral object ("The Moon is thousands of miles from Earth") and "the moon" in more poetic or metaphorical usages ("man in the moon," "reach for the moon").
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, there seems to be a trend toward deleting the "the" before "Earth," as I have just done, since it's just one planet among eight, but no one seems to be suggesting that the same be done for "Moon."
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, I have seen "the" dropped from Moon quite a bit.
― Surfjan Stevens (libcrypt), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
it's "the moon" for the same reason it's "my mom" vs "Mom" or "the sun" vs "Sol" etc
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I like the sound of Man on Moon. But that is not a good guide for usage.
― Alba, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
merriam-webster says both "often capitalized" and "usually used with 'the,'" which i dont really agree w/
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link