In several European countries with a feudal system during the middle ages, it was customary for the nobility to elect a ruler among themselves if the previous ruler had died without leaving an heir to the throne.
By electing a person, they implicitly elected the person's family and a policital faction to rule in the future. A child could be given the throne if it was correct according to the family's strict rules of succession.
A more apposite example would probably be the Holy Roman Empire - electing the next emperor must have been tricky. Only a few people could vote too, which is why George I had previously been the Elector of Hanover, though I'm not sure when the Holy Roman Empire died out....
The original name was slightly more descriptive - Torpedo Boat Destroyer. The smallest common fleet vessel (immediately) before this was the cruiser, but Torpedo Boat Destroyers came about when the Continentals started building cheap little boats just to sink our Battleships because they couldn't build enough to challenge the Royal Navy. It was a good idea but the Destroyer was too effective a counter so the next step was to build destroyer sized vessels, as well armed as destroyers, but with added torpedo capability. The mini arms race stabilized on this new vessel and the name was shortened.
But you can get a locked cellphone unlocked, for a small price. I think this is legal (can't see why not) but it does make a larger market for stolen handsets which is a major problem here in the U.K.
Is it still the case that in the U.S. you have to pay to receive calls on a cell phone? I never understood how the carriers got away with that. I know we complain (rightly) about the call charges here, but at least we don't pay to be called.
Another interesting question is why (apparently) sending text messages is so popular in the U.K. but not the U.S., I don't text much but the predictive texting on some 'phones is very impressive, it's so good it's almost worth sending messages just to use it.
And it was really bright to make the keyboard and mouse connectors identical. If you're lucky there's a little picture next to the connector, or they're colour coded, but when you've got your head under a desk reaching for the back of the box that's not a lot of help....
I know USB removes this problem but at work we can't use USB because NT doesn't. (I know, but I'm not the CTO)
What you say is mostly true, and I agree with you, except for one small point of information, scandisk is one of the few commands that is external to the kernel. Looking at the other remaining external commands (including attrib, chkdisk,debug,deltree, diskcopy, edit, extract, fdisk, format, xcopy) they are mostly the bits that go on to an emergency boot disk, the other bits dir etc being internal to command.com.
Those commands are ones which don't need the GUI, of course there are other commands which are external to the kernel but still need the GUI and still others which are basically means of accessing code in the kernel/gui - an example presumably being iexplore.exe....
Anyway the point is still valid, linux is a mostly monolithic kernel, windows is a mostly monolothic OS.
The third should be a technical and not a marketing challenge but if MS can convince every PHB that they're products are secure and that any problems are down to incompetent admins.......
Well so far the Sony heads have said they need the next PS to be 1000X the power of todays and since it will be impossible to wait for hardware to catch up they need distributed computing to help
You mean I should imagine a beowulf cluster of these?
Is it time to start work on a new software license to cover this? Add a clause to the GPL running something like "This software may not be used in the United States of America" and appropriate warning screens/click throughs indicating the same.
Sad, but those of us not in the Land Of The Free may have to consider this eventually, sort of an inverse case of the situation that used to exist with encryption and the US. Sigh.
It's clear that IBM has a monopoly in the mainframe market,....
Perhaps, but it may be a straw man. IBM may have a monoploy in mainframes but that isn't the same as a monopoly in the market for '
serious uptime, serious processing or serious throughput' - which is to say a supercomputer, a farm of minicomputers or similar are all competitors for the same market as mainframes.
In other words does IBM have a monopoly in its market segment? Otherwise it's like accusing Ford of having a monopoly of selling Fords. (I know, generally car makers don't sell to the end users, but you get point)
Isn't this normally called perjury and can lead to a jail sentence?
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If you're happy with zero padding or condescension go for K&R. I learnt C from K&R in 1985 and it is a great read. You may look at it and think it's a little on the thin side but it has all you need for the core languages. But it's not a tutorial. NB I haven't read the revised version (2nd ed?) but I'll probably get around to buying it sometime.
Of course I haven't done any C programming for a while and there may be better books, but I know how good K&R is.
Anything I say on/. shouldn't really be considered Objective Truth, and I get tired of adding IMNSHO, but really I was being mischevious in response to the way I perceived the tone of your previous post:-)
And I bought the VHS version as soon as it came out, and assuming that is close enough to the theatrical release I am way more familiar with that than I am with the DC (yes I have that on DVD). I was considering a VHS-mpeg4 transfer, I may still do it if I can't get the 'proper' version on DVD.
All comments tongue-in cheek, but expressing my real views of the film.
And I haven't had any dreams of Electric Sheep........
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Hmm, isn't the US a Republic and not a democracy?
The smallest common fleet vessel (immediately) before this was the cruiser, but Torpedo Boat Destroyers came about when the Continentals started building cheap little boats just to sink our Battleships because they couldn't build enough to challenge the Royal Navy. It was a good idea but the Destroyer was too effective a counter so the next step was to build destroyer sized vessels, as well armed as destroyers, but with added torpedo capability. The mini arms race stabilized on this new vessel and the name was shortened.
Which brings us back yet again to the question of the legality/validity of EULAs.
Et moi, j'aime les Francais aussi.
Is it still the case that in the U.S. you have to pay to receive calls on a cell phone? I never understood how the carriers got away with that. I know we complain (rightly) about the call charges here, but at least we don't pay to be called.
Another interesting question is why (apparently) sending text messages is so popular in the U.K. but not the U.S., I don't text much but the predictive texting on some 'phones is very impressive, it's so good it's almost worth sending messages just to use it.
Apart from there being no such thing as centrifugal force you don't need to to spin the 'laser head', you can use a lightweight spinning mirror.
I know USB removes this problem but at work we can't use USB because NT doesn't. (I know, but I'm not the CTO)
Looking at the other remaining external commands (including attrib, chkdisk,debug,deltree, diskcopy, edit, extract, fdisk, format, xcopy) they are mostly the bits that go on to an emergency boot disk, the other bits dir etc being internal to command.com.
Those commands are ones which don't need the GUI, of course there are other commands which are external to the kernel but still need the GUI and still others which are basically means of accessing code in the kernel/gui - an example presumably being iexplore.exe....
Anyway the point is still valid, linux is a mostly monolithic kernel, windows is a mostly monolothic OS.
The third should be a technical and not a marketing challenge but if MS can convince every PHB that they're products are secure and that any problems are down to incompetent admins.......
You mean I should imagine a beowulf cluster of these?
As opposed to random breath-testing you mean?
Foucaults Pendulum?
Sad, but those of us not in the Land Of The Free may have to consider this eventually, sort of an inverse case of the situation that used to exist with encryption and the US. Sigh.
In other words does IBM have a monopoly in its market segment? Otherwise it's like accusing Ford of having a monopoly of selling Fords. (I know, generally car makers don't sell to the end users, but you get point)
Gee now where can I download hardware?
Of course a lot of pubs are named after mythical creatures.....
Isn't this normally called perjury and can lead to a jail sentence?
NB I haven't read the revised version (2nd ed?) but I'll probably get around to buying it sometime.
Of course I haven't done any C programming for a while and there may be better books, but I know how good K&R is.
You might want to check out French law again, If I remember correctly they did a 180 and now encourage strong crypto.....
..and the speed bumps that increase noise and emissions pollution, cause excess damage to vehicles and slow emergency vehicle response times....
And I bought the VHS version as soon as it came out, and assuming that is close enough to the theatrical release I am way more familiar with that than I am with the DC (yes I have that on DVD). I was considering a VHS-mpeg4 transfer, I may still do it if I can't get the 'proper' version on DVD.
All comments tongue-in cheek, but expressing my real views of the film.
And I haven't had any dreams of Electric Sheep........