Of course! Terrorism has been redefined as a concept in the last 10 years. Not just by Dubya and his coterie of criminal cretins, but in fact in concert with many other world leaders paranoid about secessionist groups, civil rights campaigners and environmental groups. Therefore it should be no surprise when lawyers and civil servants get to paste this label onto civilian foreheads at will. I mean, you haven't even got to blow any shit up or even hurt anyone to be called a terrorist any more!
UK schools have never provided anything like sensible IT education. There was no real IT class in my school and no PCs until I left to go to 6th form college. Up until then it had been Acorns and RM Nimbuses, as you say.
That we have an IT industry at all is testament to pupils doing individual study at home and then going to University; the education system through the eighties and nineties was a massive disadvantage to our economy. If someone had pulled their finger out in 1985, who knows, Google or Yahoo may have been British...
Local schools seem to be the worse offenders. They constantly bitch and moan about lack of funds, then piss away a pile of cash on a site license for Microsoft Office
I agree most secondary school IT teachers seem to think IT education == Microsoft training. But it's worse than that - in the UK, most schools actually buy all their MS stuff from a reseller such as RM Computers. Which is a giant rip because, for example with servers, they just take Windows 2003 and bolt a load of "admin tools" onto the side. They deliberately make it non-standard and harder to use so they can then charge the schools giant support contracts. It also doesn't help that most school IT techs are completely hopeless.
Yeah in theory however because some of them have a pretty big turbo fitted you can get a fair bit of lag. Actually those graphs illustrates my point better than my post did - the torque curve for the petrol is a lot "wider" than the diesel.
Yeah I'm not knocking Diesels, the brand new VW's, BMWs, Audis and even Fords are really really good. But that's the brand new cars. If you're looking for a 2nd hand motor, you may end up with a smoky, noisy, slow old thing if you go for a diesel.
I stand corrected! Well done X guys, poor show Mozilla. Although thinking about it, I wasn't just on about passwords. Keyloggers can be useful when spying on people by getting phone numbers, credit card details, addresses and personal correspondence.
Yeah they're massively popular in Europe, two thirds of all Audis are sold with TDIs IIRC. I can't remember why the US has lagged on Diesel, I think it's something to do with (bizarrely) emissions standards.
They do have all the torque if you look at the PEAK figure, however the curve tends to be worse and they often don't rev as high. Therefore you usually get bugger all torque at lower revs, then when you hit the boost you get a huge surge of the twisty stuff, then you've hit the limiter. All within a narrow rev band. Cue lots of changing gear.
WTF??? Tell me those aren't real place names? Sounds like you nicked them from India then messed them up a bit to make them sound like you thought of them.
More glial cells, I heard. Something to do with there being a greater flow of information between the left and right lobes of his brain. (I saw that on TV so it may be wrong.)
I studied neural nets at University (years ago, I'm sure it's move on a lot since then) and this seems a hopeful turn-up.
Clearly, it'll be a very, very long time before there are computers with enough memory or power to model a mammalian brain. On the other hand, an avian brain seems to have extremely useful capabilities and is far, far more compact. Perhaps something useful can be inferred from the greater volume-to-power ratio of a magpie's grey matter?
Pheasants are one of the dumbest creatures imaginable. Ants have more nous. Are they a product of selective breeding like cows and sheep? If so, perhaps they've been bred for stupidity. Also politicians.
I was walking in the forest near home once with my little boy when we saw a pheasant meandering along. When it saw us it froze and stood there stock still, presumably hoping we wouldn't notice it.
When my son saw it, naturally (for a three year old) he charged straight towards it with his arms out, laughing. The pheasant looked pretty surprised and eventually bolted for the nearest bush. Hilariously, it just stuck it's head in while it's body and legs remained flat on the floor, completely exposed.
Possibly one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
I think an animal should know it's in big trouble when it's easy meat for a human toddler.
Is there any hypothesis about how brain size relates to intelligence and sapience?
You always hear people saying it isn't proportional, yet it seems counter-intuitive that you could get that much interesting stuff happening in such a small volume of nerve cells!
I think the suspicion is that they hired a few ex-Microsoft execs to manage the iPlayer project who promptly implemented an all-MS stack.
Fair enough, lots of people are using it now (it's been a huge success for them overall and has helped justify the increasingly controversial license fee) but there's that 5% who don't want to use Windows, who are completely excluded.
That makes it look as though they're conspiring with (or are being used by) MS to marginalise the competition. That is pretty obviously inappropriate for a publicly-funded body.
Yeah I know a few people who've had the same bad luck. I guess the lesson is not to get too dead-ended with a certain technology or proprietary stuff. Got to keep on learning stuff and never settle, stay on an upward curve.
Also, some companies are a LOT more stable than others; for example banks hardly ever go under; also the firm I work for is (boring, but...) incredibly secure - their capital reserves boggle the mind. I guess you have to trade some excitement off against security.
Yeah I work in IT too, I used to work as a programmer FOR a market research firm, now I work for a software house so I can see both sides. In actual fact, the software house is far, far better in terms of lifestyle and family stuff. However the MR firm was far more dynamic and offered faster career progression for those it sees as having "the right stuff" (which seemed to mean "no kids and an alcohol problem").
There are laws in the UK (where I'm at) about ageism and sacking someone for no good reason. Essentially, if you've worked for the same firm for more than two years, you'd almost literally have to murder someone in the office to get fired. Alternatively they stuff you a bunch of cash on the way out. You'd think people would take advantage of that, but they generally don't.
Yeah I think that's probably right to an extent but I reckon it goes for other industries too. I think advertising/marketing/market research is more or less the same (not that I would ever consider doing that!). I do think it varies depending on how old you are. Seems as though "the norm" these days is to start popping out sprogs at about 30-35. If you do it at 25 though, you're seriously handicapping your career. That isn't good for society and given falling birth rates and the demographic wall we're heading for, there should probably be specific legislation against that sort of subtle discrimination.
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Sounds a bit like the Chunnel. That had to built from scratch but the drive-on concept is the same as you suggest.
I've always thought we should get freight off the road and onto freight so you wouldn't need as much road capacity.
Of course! Terrorism has been redefined as a concept in the last 10 years. Not just by Dubya and his coterie of criminal cretins, but in fact in concert with many other world leaders paranoid about secessionist groups, civil rights campaigners and environmental groups. Therefore it should be no surprise when lawyers and civil servants get to paste this label onto civilian foreheads at will. I mean, you haven't even got to blow any shit up or even hurt anyone to be called a terrorist any more!
UK schools have never provided anything like sensible IT education. There was no real IT class in my school and no PCs until I left to go to 6th form college. Up until then it had been Acorns and RM Nimbuses, as you say.
That we have an IT industry at all is testament to pupils doing individual study at home and then going to University; the education system through the eighties and nineties was a massive disadvantage to our economy. If someone had pulled their finger out in 1985, who knows, Google or Yahoo may have been British...
Local schools seem to be the worse offenders. They constantly bitch and moan about lack of funds, then piss away a pile of cash on a site license for Microsoft Office
I agree most secondary school IT teachers seem to think IT education == Microsoft training. But it's worse than that - in the UK, most schools actually buy all their MS stuff from a reseller such as RM Computers. Which is a giant rip because, for example with servers, they just take Windows 2003 and bolt a load of "admin tools" onto the side. They deliberately make it non-standard and harder to use so they can then charge the schools giant support contracts. It also doesn't help that most school IT techs are completely hopeless.
I speak from bitter experience, BTW.
Yeah in theory however because some of them have a pretty big turbo fitted you can get a fair bit of lag. Actually those graphs illustrates my point better than my post did - the torque curve for the petrol is a lot "wider" than the diesel.
Yeah I'm not knocking Diesels, the brand new VW's, BMWs, Audis and even Fords are really really good. But that's the brand new cars. If you're looking for a 2nd hand motor, you may end up with a smoky, noisy, slow old thing if you go for a diesel.
I went LPG in the end.
I stand corrected! Well done X guys, poor show Mozilla. Although thinking about it, I wasn't just on about passwords. Keyloggers can be useful when spying on people by getting phone numbers, credit card details, addresses and personal correspondence.
Yeah they're massively popular in Europe, two thirds of all Audis are sold with TDIs IIRC. I can't remember why the US has lagged on Diesel, I think it's something to do with (bizarrely) emissions standards.
They do have all the torque if you look at the PEAK figure, however the curve tends to be worse and they often don't rev as high. Therefore you usually get bugger all torque at lower revs, then when you hit the boost you get a huge surge of the twisty stuff, then you've hit the limiter. All within a narrow rev band. Cue lots of changing gear.
A keylogger wouldn't need root access. All it has to do is monitor the keyboard and send out packets. I'm sure there are more examples.
Money-transports don't usually go around losing money.
No, because you can't fit £4m in cash into something the size of a matchbox.
Mallacuta/Delegate/Bombala right?
WTF??? Tell me those aren't real place names? Sounds like you nicked them from India then messed them up a bit to make them sound like you thought of them.
Bombala indeed!
Don't be silly. No hands! What are they going to do, gore an oil tanker to death?
Why? Aren't you? I know I am. All that licking and rolling... mmmmmmaurgh....
More glial cells, I heard. Something to do with there being a greater flow of information between the left and right lobes of his brain. (I saw that on TV so it may be wrong.)
I studied neural nets at University (years ago, I'm sure it's move on a lot since then) and this seems a hopeful turn-up.
Clearly, it'll be a very, very long time before there are computers with enough memory or power to model a mammalian brain. On the other hand, an avian brain seems to have extremely useful capabilities and is far, far more compact. Perhaps something useful can be inferred from the greater volume-to-power ratio of a magpie's grey matter?
Pheasants are one of the dumbest creatures imaginable. Ants have more nous. Are they a product of selective breeding like cows and sheep? If so, perhaps they've been bred for stupidity. Also politicians.
I was walking in the forest near home once with my little boy when we saw a pheasant meandering along. When it saw us it froze and stood there stock still, presumably hoping we wouldn't notice it.
When my son saw it, naturally (for a three year old) he charged straight towards it with his arms out, laughing. The pheasant looked pretty surprised and eventually bolted for the nearest bush. Hilariously, it just stuck it's head in while it's body and legs remained flat on the floor, completely exposed.
Possibly one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
I think an animal should know it's in big trouble when it's easy meat for a human toddler.
>>A big creature with a small brain , would be completely dumb.
Sounds like my ex-wife!
Is there any hypothesis about how brain size relates to intelligence and sapience?
You always hear people saying it isn't proportional, yet it seems counter-intuitive that you could get that much interesting stuff happening in such a small volume of nerve cells!
Yep - I stand corrected. Would be nice to get "top draw" support though.
I think the suspicion is that they hired a few ex-Microsoft execs to manage the iPlayer project who promptly implemented an all-MS stack.
Fair enough, lots of people are using it now (it's been a huge success for them overall and has helped justify the increasingly controversial license fee) but there's that 5% who don't want to use Windows, who are completely excluded.
That makes it look as though they're conspiring with (or are being used by) MS to marginalise the competition. That is pretty obviously inappropriate for a publicly-funded body.
Yeah I know a few people who've had the same bad luck. I guess the lesson is not to get too dead-ended with a certain technology or proprietary stuff. Got to keep on learning stuff and never settle, stay on an upward curve.
Also, some companies are a LOT more stable than others; for example banks hardly ever go under; also the firm I work for is (boring, but...) incredibly secure - their capital reserves boggle the mind. I guess you have to trade some excitement off against security.
Yeah I work in IT too, I used to work as a programmer FOR a market research firm, now I work for a software house so I can see both sides. In actual fact, the software house is far, far better in terms of lifestyle and family stuff. However the MR firm was far more dynamic and offered faster career progression for those it sees as having "the right stuff" (which seemed to mean "no kids and an alcohol problem").
There are laws in the UK (where I'm at) about ageism and sacking someone for no good reason. Essentially, if you've worked for the same firm for more than two years, you'd almost literally have to murder someone in the office to get fired. Alternatively they stuff you a bunch of cash on the way out. You'd think people would take advantage of that, but they generally don't.
Yep - dual monitors with code on one side and a browser on the other...
Yeah I think that's probably right to an extent but I reckon it goes for other industries too. I think advertising/marketing/market research is more or less the same (not that I would ever consider doing that!). I do think it varies depending on how old you are. Seems as though "the norm" these days is to start popping out sprogs at about 30-35. If you do it at 25 though, you're seriously handicapping your career. That isn't good for society and given falling birth rates and the demographic wall we're heading for, there should probably be specific legislation against that sort of subtle discrimination.
Of course you can, because you're a special android man with magical powers from beyond the mooooooon!