Billion not Million
Aug. 15th, 2010 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysAh memories. Way back in my student days I lived in a flat with an engineer, an economist and an english student who worked part-time as a newspaper subeditor. It was a fun flat, probably the best of the ones I lived in over the years.
From time to time, the sub come home with a copy of the paper and ask about some technical aspect of an editing decision that had been made. The team of subbies weren't sure what was correct. The mistake count wasn't huge, but enough dumb mistakes were made to be disconcerting. The paper my flatmate worked for wasn't well regarded and shut down while she worked there. I'm pretty sure there wasn't any correlation between the editing mistakes and the shutdown.
This memory was bought to you today by the Stuff web site, this story about a company improving internet speeds and this disclaimer An earlier version of this story mentioned the device would improve speeds "more than 50 times" instead of "up to 50 per cent". Manawatu Standard apologises for the error.
From time to time, the sub come home with a copy of the paper and ask about some technical aspect of an editing decision that had been made. The team of subbies weren't sure what was correct. The mistake count wasn't huge, but enough dumb mistakes were made to be disconcerting. The paper my flatmate worked for wasn't well regarded and shut down while she worked there. I'm pretty sure there wasn't any correlation between the editing mistakes and the shutdown.
This memory was bought to you today by the Stuff web site, this story about a company improving internet speeds and this disclaimer An earlier version of this story mentioned the device would improve speeds "more than 50 times" instead of "up to 50 per cent". Manawatu Standard apologises for the error.