The article doesn't give any useful information about what was actually going on and doesn't mention dodgy landlord Haresh Parmar cited in the summary.
Fourth way, if you live near high voltage cables run cables beneath to tap of electricity by induction. People have been prosecuted in the UK for doing this.
The electric company meters the supply upstream of the domestic supplies so they have an idea if someone is drawing electricity illegally as all the individual readings should add up to the global reading minus losses.
Citroen DS lights work this way. In order to get a bit more visibility out of the puny late 1960s headlamps the reflector behind the lamp would pivot to point in the direction you pointed the steering wheel.
It's the same strategy used by police and councils, sending out fines with threats of prosecution for minor motoring offences. Realistically the case is unlikely to go to court...
For example, someone driving at 67mph in a 60mph zone may be faced with a £30 fine, but if they let it go to court they risk getting 6 points on their license (halfway to losing it!) and a fine in the thousands.
You are contradicting yourself. You say that the case in unlikely to go to court then you say that it will go to court and they risk fines in the thousands.
The latter is more accurate, the case will go to court if you don't pay or contest the fine and you will face additional costs if you lose. Parking and speeding fines are no brainers for the police and councils.
> and that it seemed the average age was going YOUNGER
You should try working in my company. Only the MD and me are over 40, there are a few guys over 30 and everyone else is under 30, it is like Logan's run. I assume they kill IT folk when they reach 30 because they get too expensive, salary wise.
Jenny Aguter has never been a stranger to nudity, from the Railway Children where she was only too ready to rip off her bloomers to Spooks where she has a fcuk in the stairwell of Mi.5. Still got a good ass despite drawing a pension.
> The main reason, in my mind, to upgrade is being able to effectively use 64-bit machines fully--and have more than 4GB of RAM.
in which case you'll need to wait for proper 64 bit support for many windows 7 applications and given the hell of 32 bit / 64 bit software not talking Windows 7 is a bit of a nightmare in my experience.
I've also not noticed any performance increase between 32 and 64 bit apps or between windows 7 64 bit and windows xp 32 bit. Basically, compared with Ubuntu, I would say that Windows 7 64 bit is not ready for prime time.
I see a gap of 239 miles and a 4700 foot pass, no way you can get maximum milage on a pass
That might be an issue depending on the grade. It has a direct drive powertrain like most electric bike. Electric bikes are generally wound for town cruising speeds (25km) and the motors are prone to overheating and powerloss climbing steeper grades, electric bikes used in the hills are often powered at the crank to use the bike's gears. Sounds like they will have similar problems without a gearbox.
This sounds a lot like a Mach 3.0 uK variant I worked on that ran on the Intel Hypercube. Before Intel canned that project. The interesting thing about that project was that in order to simulate the Hypercube we ran the OS on clusters of i386 machines. To me, this was the real application of the technology, exploiting the power of commodity boxes with a single OS.
Interestingly a lot of the original Mach 3.0 team got hired by Microsoft never to be be seen again (they were sent to some gulag somewhere cold and wet near alaska... Seattle I think they call it).
The main issues to look for with LEDs is some of the cheaper ones give out a horrible ghostly white light.
An article I read in the Economist.com claimed the horrible light output from Chinese cheap CFLs and LEDs was due to the fact that ambient light is whiter in those countries so they like their indoor lighting that way. They are now starting to adapt their bulbs for European/US markets.
Interesting. My local supermarket is selling LED bulbs rated at 50 years! I bet the electronics give out sooner though, esp. if they are made in China.
Regarding CFL, I fitted my house out 5 years ago in all the rooms where lights tend to stay switched on for a long time (e.g. all evening) and have only had 1 blow so I count that as a win. The wiring isn't great (it's France). In rooms like the loo where the light goes on and off I still have incandescents but will move to LED technology soon.
We only have a 6kw supply to the house and heat with electricity so saving power is very important to me.
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I've read it. To be honest I didn't find Gates contribution to be very inspiring, I think he has far more to say about business. I think Simonyi is way overrated.
This book sounds like an update to that work to some extent.
I'm surprised at what happened but it is the same here in France and Switzerland. Almost impossible to get a new Network with Linux - the stores say they get too many returns because people can't install stuff like Outlook.
Of course I haven't RTFA but suspect this is a knapsack type problem which is NP-hard. That is a computer actually has to try all the permutations to find the solution whereas humans can usually arrive at a solution much more quickly by some kind of intuitive process that cannot be captured in software.
I worked for a bus company which ran a number of charter like routes. My boss asked me to write a program to find the most efficient way of moving groups from A to B via C etc. I never achieved the same efficiencies as the human planner the program replaced (he had left by the way).
The basic lesson is, solve the Napsack problem and the world, including DHL, UPS, FedEx will make you a millionaire.
Yes, for me that is the grand daddy of SciFi doomsday machines (apart from Pandora's box) Scared me silly at 8 years old to think that thing might be out there somewhere
I agree, interesting comments from Mickwd. The only mistake MS could have made would be to actually have bought Yahoo! at $31 in a stock and cash deal. Yang was right that the two firms are very different.
I remember coming into the office and everyone was standing around looking glum. Finally someone suggested we have a cup of tea. What do do? There was no Usenet coming down the pipe, how would we get through the day without reading news? It was horrible. Little did we know we'd be offline for 3 days and it wouldn't be until the next week that service would get back to normal. We actually had to go and do some work!
He was supposed to overfly my house at the weekend for the Icarus Cup. I was all set up with a high definition video camera to get some nice shots and was very disappointed that he couldn't fly due to the high winds. He had the same problem yesterday and the flight has been delayed.
1. give away free software under the GPL 2. build a user community 3. gets lots of worthwhile contributions 4. change software license on next version 5. Profit!
> The statement from Nasa chief Mike Griffin is a good example of what's wrong with NASA: "...it's only a step from there to an independent, European manned-spaceflight capability; and I for one would like to see it." [bbc.co.uk]
would it be possible for a human to stow away on the Jules Vernes to hitch a ride to the ISS? I imagine the cargo hold isn't pressurized and are the G forces for an unmanned craft much higher? I guess the extra 80kgs would also have to be taken account of.
I'm just wondering whether that is really true. As I recall they are Mach 2.5 based and Avie then back ported some of the development work on Mach 3.0. Mach 3.0 is a uK architecture so to say that OSX is Mach 3.0 but not a uK doesn't make sense to me.
erm, are you sure? I believe OSX is based on Mach 2.5 which is derived from BSD Unix and it is not uKernel based. Mach 3.0 and OSF/1uK are microkernel variants. I used to develop Mach 3.0 at CMU and the OSF but I will admit it is about 15 years since I've done any uK work. OSF/1uK was not taken up commercially because it was 8-10% slower than OSF/1 with the similar functionality. We had 3 OS personalities ported to Mach including OSF/1 Unix. Incidentally the OSF considered using NT as the uK layer with OSF/1 sitting atop, that would have been an interesting development.
There were aspects of OSF/1 uK that were interesting but were not followed up commercially. For example you could build clusters on cheap hardware with certain functionality - like a RAID driver, running on certain uKs and not others.
Still maybe 2008 is the year of the microkernel on the desktop?
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The article doesn't give any useful information about what was actually going on and doesn't mention dodgy landlord Haresh Parmar cited in the summary.
Fourth way, if you live near high voltage cables run cables beneath to tap of electricity by induction. People have been prosecuted in the UK for doing this.
The electric company meters the supply upstream of the domestic supplies so they have an idea if someone is drawing electricity illegally as all the individual readings should add up to the global reading minus losses.
Citroen DS lights work this way. In order to get a bit more visibility out of the puny late 1960s headlamps the reflector behind the lamp would pivot to point in the direction you pointed the steering wheel.
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It's the same strategy used by police and councils, sending out fines with threats of prosecution for minor motoring offences. Realistically the case is unlikely to go to court...
For example, someone driving at 67mph in a 60mph zone may be faced with a £30 fine, but if they let it go to court they risk getting 6 points on their license (halfway to losing it!) and a fine in the thousands.
You are contradicting yourself. You say that the case in unlikely to go to court then you say that it will go to court and they risk fines in the thousands.
The latter is more accurate, the case will go to court if you don't pay or contest the fine and you will face additional costs if you lose. Parking and speeding fines are no brainers for the police and councils.
> and that it seemed the average age was going YOUNGER
You should try working in my company. Only the MD and me are over 40, there are a few guys over 30 and everyone else is under 30, it is like Logan's run. I assume they kill IT folk when they reach 30 because they get too expensive, salary wise.
Jenny Aguter has never been a stranger to nudity, from the Railway Children where she was only too ready to rip off her bloomers to Spooks where she has a fcuk in the stairwell of Mi.5. Still got a good ass despite drawing a pension.
> The main reason, in my mind, to upgrade is being able to effectively use 64-bit machines fully--and have more than 4GB of RAM.
in which case you'll need to wait for proper 64 bit support for many windows 7 applications and given the hell of 32 bit / 64 bit software not talking Windows 7 is a bit of a nightmare in my experience.
I've also not noticed any performance increase between 32 and 64 bit apps or between windows 7 64 bit and windows xp 32 bit. Basically, compared with Ubuntu, I would say that Windows 7 64 bit is not ready for prime time.
I see a gap of 239 miles and a 4700 foot pass, no way you can get maximum milage on a pass
That might be an issue depending on the grade. It has a direct drive powertrain like most electric bike. Electric bikes are generally wound for town cruising speeds (25km) and the motors are prone to overheating and powerloss climbing steeper grades, electric bikes used in the hills are often powered at the crank to use the bike's gears. Sounds like they will have similar problems without a gearbox.
Is anyone working with GWT Query? What is the status of this project?
This sounds a lot like a Mach 3.0 uK variant I worked on that ran on the Intel Hypercube. Before Intel canned that project. The interesting thing about that project was that in order to simulate the Hypercube we ran the OS on clusters of i386 machines. To me, this was the real application of the technology, exploiting the power of commodity boxes with a single OS.
Interestingly a lot of the original Mach 3.0 team got hired by Microsoft never to be be seen again (they were sent to some gulag somewhere cold and wet near alaska... Seattle I think they call it).
The Amstrad PCW runs on CP/M. There were 200,000 units sold and they are still in use and there is still some 3rd party support.
http://www.luxsoft.demon.co.uk/lux/pcw.html
I believe the hitchhikers guides were written on the PCW.
The main issues to look for with LEDs is some of the cheaper ones give out a horrible ghostly white light.
An article I read in the Economist.com claimed the horrible light output from Chinese cheap CFLs and LEDs was due to the fact that ambient light is whiter in those countries so they like their indoor lighting that way. They are now starting to adapt their bulbs for European/US markets.
Interesting. My local supermarket is selling LED bulbs rated at 50 years! I bet the electronics give out sooner though, esp. if they are made in China.
Regarding CFL, I fitted my house out 5 years ago in all the rooms where lights tend to stay switched on for a long time (e.g. all evening) and have only had 1 blow so I count that as a win. The wiring isn't great (it's France). In rooms like the loo where the light goes on and off I still have incandescents but will move to LED technology soon.
We only have a 6kw supply to the house and heat with electricity so saving power is very important to me.
I've read it. To be honest I didn't find Gates contribution to be very inspiring, I think he has far more to say about business. I think Simonyi is way overrated.
This book sounds like an update to that work to some extent.
Most folks these days are in big 4x4s, you can hardly move around the place for them clogging up the roads.
> Here in Switzerland we don't have CAFE but almost everyone drives small fuel efficient cars
You obviously don't live in Geneva
I'm surprised at what happened but it is the same here in France and Switzerland. Almost impossible to get a new Network with Linux - the stores say they get too many returns because people can't install stuff like Outlook.
Of course I haven't RTFA but suspect this is a knapsack type problem which is NP-hard. That is a computer actually has to try all the permutations to find the solution whereas humans can usually arrive at a solution much more quickly by some kind of intuitive process that cannot be captured in software.
I worked for a bus company which ran a number of charter like routes. My boss asked me to write a program to find the most efficient way of moving groups from A to B via C etc. I never achieved the same efficiencies as the human planner the program replaced (he had left by the way).
The basic lesson is, solve the Napsack problem and the world, including DHL, UPS, FedEx will make you a millionaire.
Yes, for me that is the grand daddy of SciFi doomsday machines (apart from Pandora's box) Scared me silly at 8 years old to think that thing might be out there somewhere
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I agree, interesting comments from Mickwd. The only mistake MS could have made would be to actually have bought Yahoo! at $31 in a stock and cash deal. Yang was right that the two firms are very different.
I remember coming into the office and everyone was standing around looking glum. Finally someone suggested we have a cup of tea. What do do? There was no Usenet coming down the pipe, how would we get through the day without reading news? It was horrible. Little did we know we'd be offline for 3 days and it wouldn't be until the next week that service would get back to normal. We actually had to go and do some work!
Gawd, makes me feel really old. How is ol' RTM?
He was supposed to overfly my house at the weekend for the Icarus Cup. I was all set up with a high definition video camera to get some nice shots and was very disappointed that he couldn't fly due to the high winds. He had the same problem yesterday and the flight has been delayed.
I took some film of the balloons instead.
1. give away free software under the GPL
2. build a user community
3. gets lots of worthwhile contributions
4. change software license on next version
5. Profit!
> The statement from Nasa chief Mike Griffin is a good example of what's wrong with NASA: "...it's only a step from there to an independent, European manned-spaceflight capability; and I for one would like to see it." [bbc.co.uk]
would it be possible for a human to stow away on the Jules Vernes to hitch a ride to the ISS? I imagine the cargo hold isn't pressurized and are the G forces for an unmanned craft much higher? I guess the extra 80kgs would also have to be taken account of.
I'm just wondering whether that is really true. As I recall they are Mach 2.5 based and Avie then back ported some of the development work on Mach 3.0. Mach 3.0 is a uK architecture so to say that OSX is Mach 3.0 but not a uK doesn't make sense to me.
> NT (like OSX) has a microkernel
erm, are you sure? I believe OSX is based on Mach 2.5 which is derived from BSD Unix and it is not uKernel based. Mach 3.0 and OSF/1uK are microkernel variants. I used to develop Mach 3.0 at CMU and the OSF but I will admit it is about 15 years since I've done any uK work. OSF/1uK was not taken up commercially because it was 8-10% slower than OSF/1 with the similar functionality. We had 3 OS personalities ported to Mach including OSF/1 Unix. Incidentally the OSF considered using NT as the uK layer with OSF/1 sitting atop, that would have been an interesting development.
There were aspects of OSF/1 uK that were interesting but were not followed up commercially. For example you could build clusters on cheap hardware with certain functionality - like a RAID driver, running on certain uKs and not others.
Still maybe 2008 is the year of the microkernel on the desktop?