Don't know much about grammar but is it not a common practice to put an apostrophe mark in a plural sans the trailing "s"? I mean, you cant write "..Founders's Push" since it would be incorrect; neither "..Founder's Push" since there is more than one founder here.
An alternative technique of cleaning spill called "bioremediation" has been extensively researched by TERI in the past decade. Bioremediation involves harvesting a certain type of bacteria that feeds upon oil waste. A technique called "Oilzapper" involves four types of bacteria feeding simultaneously on four different layers of oil. More of this in an article in Times Of India.
I live in an apartment of a 5th storey building and the locality houses a large number of crows. I recently witnessed an interesting incident from my terrace that reflected how strong the feeling of togetherness in these birds is; just as this experiment has proved. In the backyard of a house at ground-floor; a baby crow was confronted by a cat. An adult crow flying across that place noticed this and raised a distress call. It started cawing in a shrill voice to attract others' attention and soon a crowd of nearly 50 crows assembled at the place. Perched on boundary walls and ledges nearby all the crows started cawing at the same time. This collective action was meant to dissuade the cat from attacking the baby. Each single step that the cat took towards the baby crow was met with increased collective cawing of all the crows. Practically they could have done nothing to actually stop attacking the cat the baby. The cat however grew nervous with all that attention and backed off. The baby crow finally managed to hop to a higher place for safety.
Crows do have a very closely knit society; at least in way that we humans can easily perceive.
I am in lookout for an AMD notebook since last two weeks. Was surprised to see HP and Dell aren't offering AMD on any of their models now . Only Lenovo and Acer have some AMD offerings. Not sure about Dell but HP did have AMD models in Compaq series in the past. Its bad to see the two major PC makers unfairly promoting the bigger brand.
As someone from India I can attest to that. VCDs are still sold on street shops as well as in music stores. On a standard CRT television or on a PC with a cheap graphics card, you won't be able to tell the difference in video quality - between a VCD and a DVD movie.
Indian movies are released in DVD as well as VCD versions, the latter being cheaper. The difference in price is not much but if the same content can be stored in 1/3rd of the storage space with barely noticeable loss in quality, isn't that a good deal?
My brother works in Indian Railways as a Permanent Way Engineer. He says that his job of track(railroad) maintenance becomes really tough if goods (freight) trains share the same line along with passenger trains. Goods train wagons when loaded are a lot more heavier than passenger wagons causing frequent wear and tear of tracks. They are planning to separate freight lines from passenger lines in the coming years, for faster transit as well as easier maintenance.
They made the beta version of AIX 6.1 available on their site some couple of years back. IBM is just paranoid about AIX/Power; they want it to remain in a sort of exclusive aka privileged domain.
I still have a couple of 43P Model 150 boxes running AIX 5.2 and AIX 5.3. They remain up and running for most of the time (this year I rebooted those twice or thrice at max). I've been running these since 2005 and can't recall if I had to ever reboot these because of a application crash or slow performance - typical reasons for rebooting wintel machines. So these are quite reliable on this regard. Problem is that Java apps are painfully slow and besides, these won't support AIX 6.1.
Thanks for pointing this out. The first thought that appeared to me after i read this story was that hasn't this already been discussed on Slashdot some time ago?
Correct..that's horrible grammar. Maybe it could be paraphrased as "he would want to work for a company that hires those who code in their spare time"..?
Correct. That was where the First Post got me confused too. The summary meant that Wine can support more legacy Windows apps then probably Vista can. Where does the "user base" argument come here?
I am using a 3.25 GB RAM machine with Windows XP on it. Was using a PF size of 2048 MB. After reading the post, i lowered it to 128 MB, well below the Windows recommended 4603 MB. To my surprise, there has been no negative effect on the system performance. The resource hungry Java apps which I use frequently in fact seem to be running much faster. As a tech support pro, I've always been recommending higher PF sizes for those running apps with large mem requirements. Seems that I got it wrong till now.
And yes, Linux uses a much less amount of swap, almost a fraction of what Windows PF uses for running the same Java app under similar conditions on machines with identical configuration.
I have a Creative SoundBlaster Pro card on my P-II 350 MHz machine. Up till Win98, I had to install separate Creative drivers for it. Windows XP has built-in drivers for legacy cards and Creative cards work fine on that. Also on every flavor and version of Linux I've installed so far on that machine (RedHat/Fedora, Debian Sarge, Open SUSE), the card works perfectly well.
In particular, I've never heard anyone so far cribbing about SoundBlaster drivers. Did you ever try to get it work on Linux or Windows XP?
Last month I mailed to IBM pServer support regarding availability of IntelliStations running AIX 6.1. Since we do only application testing we didn't need a server class machine. Never received a reply. I suspected that this was going to happen. HP did this long back to HP-UX.
I cannot understand though since with AIX 6.1 they seemed to be making a plunge towards desktop segment. They were supporting a full-blown version of GNOME with Firefox instead of the crappy CDE. There were many other promising user-friendly features. AIX isn't for home users but a workstation class machine running AIX can be invaluable to an administrator managing large Unix environments.
The two URLs would point to the same site. According to the DNS convention, the trailing dot at the end of URL is always implicit. You specify it or not, http://dk/ will always be parsed as http://dk./ (See RFC 3696). That is what the whole argument about - what implications can occur if you allow a character or a string of characters to be specified as TLD instead od the dot(.). This is certainly going to break the entire concept of DNS that we have known since years.
Nope, its as simple as this. If i can ride on my bicycle from my home to office why would I need a car? The bicycle solves my purpose. So if i just want to read my email and RSS feeds, why should I switch to broadband? Makes no sense.
In the same context, I don't quite understand what Apple got has against the "right-click" functionality. Their mouse design is simply un-ergonomic; it doesn't fit into the palm nicely, it doesn't have distinguished buttons, the scroll ball is just too tiny and worst of all - it doesn't have a right click feature. Clicking on an object while holding down the shift jey is simply counterintuitive; but they won't change it because they don't want to 'copy' Windows; or Linux whatever it may be.
Looks nice that at last somebody has taken notice of this. Nobody bothered when storage sizes were small. So if 1 GB was pared down by a few bytes by the 1000/1024 calculation, it didn't matter much. But when 40 GB actually came down to near 38 GB and 80 GB to 76 GB, you felt sort of cheated. Rounding off, if necessary, should always done to the lower value. For instance, my old P-II processor machine actually ran at 352 MHz but its advertised speed was 350 MHz.
The problem with these so called "Experts" and "Business Analysts" is that they simply lack the foresight to see into the distant future. Based on some petty statistics, they can predict the business trend for a next couple of years but they simply can't tell what's going to happen 10 or maybe 15 years down the line. Take them 20 years back, and these same "experts" could never have been able to predict that Microsoft would become such a behemoth as it is now.
So simply shut your eyes and ears when "experts" say some thing. Ten years from now they would be saying: Well, there is nothing that can displace Linux from the desktops. OS "XYZ" (some futuristic OS not Microsoft) is not remotely capable of offering a competition to Linux's monopoly and blah blah blah.
Correct. It makes much sense for the web server to see where the request is coming from- whether from a PC or a mobile. If its the latter, the web server can serve a stripped version of the page; if requested. Not all web sites can (or will) implement this feature, but a few select ones can give this a try. Getting a client agent to check what to serve and what to discard will be very sluggish.
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The word 'push' has been used as a noun here - the act of pushing.
Don't know much about grammar but is it not a common practice to put an apostrophe mark in a plural sans the trailing "s"? I mean, you cant write "..Founders's Push" since it would be incorrect; neither "..Founder's Push" since there is more than one founder here.
An alternative technique of cleaning spill called "bioremediation" has been extensively researched by TERI in the past decade. Bioremediation involves harvesting a certain type of bacteria that feeds upon oil waste. A technique called "Oilzapper" involves four types of bacteria feeding simultaneously on four different layers of oil. More of this in an article in Times Of India.
..installed on your laptop. Else the thief would have dutifully returned it to you.
I live in an apartment of a 5th storey building and the locality houses a large number of crows. I recently witnessed an interesting incident from my terrace that reflected how strong the feeling of togetherness in these birds is; just as this experiment has proved.
In the backyard of a house at ground-floor; a baby crow was confronted by a cat. An adult crow flying across that place noticed this and raised a distress call. It started cawing in a shrill voice to attract others' attention and soon a crowd of nearly 50 crows assembled at the place. Perched on boundary walls and ledges nearby all the crows started cawing at the same time. This collective action was meant to dissuade the cat from attacking the baby. Each single step that the cat took towards the baby crow was met with increased collective cawing of all the crows. Practically they could have done nothing to actually stop attacking the cat the baby. The cat however grew nervous with all that attention and backed off. The baby crow finally managed to hop to a higher place for safety.
Crows do have a very closely knit society; at least in way that we humans can easily perceive.
I am in lookout for an AMD notebook since last two weeks. Was surprised to see HP and Dell aren't offering AMD on any of their models now . Only Lenovo and Acer have some AMD offerings. Not sure about Dell but HP did have AMD models in Compaq series in the past. Its bad to see the two major PC makers unfairly promoting the bigger brand.
As someone from India I can attest to that. VCDs are still sold on street shops as well as in music stores. On a standard CRT television or on a PC with a cheap graphics card, you won't be able to tell the difference in video quality - between a VCD and a DVD movie.
Indian movies are released in DVD as well as VCD versions, the latter being cheaper. The difference in price is not much but if the same content can be stored in 1/3rd of the storage space with barely noticeable loss in quality, isn't that a good deal?
My brother works in Indian Railways as a Permanent Way Engineer. He says that his job of track(railroad) maintenance becomes really tough if goods (freight) trains share the same line along with passenger trains. Goods train wagons when loaded are a lot more heavier than passenger wagons causing frequent wear and tear of tracks. They are planning to separate freight lines from passenger lines in the coming years, for faster transit as well as easier maintenance.
They made the beta version of AIX 6.1 available on their site some couple of years back. IBM is just paranoid about AIX/Power; they want it to remain in a sort of exclusive aka privileged domain.
I still have a couple of 43P Model 150 boxes running AIX 5.2 and AIX 5.3. They remain up and running for most of the time (this year I rebooted those twice or thrice at max). I've been running these since 2005 and can't recall if I had to ever reboot these because of a application crash or slow performance - typical reasons for rebooting wintel machines. So these are quite reliable on this regard. Problem is that Java apps are painfully slow and besides, these won't support AIX 6.1.
Thanks for pointing this out. The first thought that appeared to me after i read this story was that hasn't this already been discussed on Slashdot some time ago?
I was just trying to remove all negatives with minimal changes to the sentence. Where does the word "only" come from in your translation?
Correct..that's horrible grammar. Maybe it could be paraphrased as "he would want to work for a company that hires those who code in their spare time"..?
Correct. That was where the First Post got me confused too. The summary meant that Wine can support more legacy Windows apps then probably Vista can. Where does the "user base" argument come here?
I am using a 3.25 GB RAM machine with Windows XP on it. Was using a PF size of 2048 MB. After reading the post, i lowered it to 128 MB, well below the Windows recommended 4603 MB. To my surprise, there has been no negative effect on the system performance. The resource hungry Java apps which I use frequently in fact seem to be running much faster. As a tech support pro, I've always been recommending higher PF sizes for those running apps with large mem requirements. Seems that I got it wrong till now.
And yes, Linux uses a much less amount of swap, almost a fraction of what Windows PF uses for running the same Java app under similar conditions on machines with identical configuration.
I have a Creative SoundBlaster Pro card on my P-II 350 MHz machine. Up till Win98, I had to install separate Creative drivers for it. Windows XP has built-in drivers for legacy cards and Creative cards work fine on that. Also on every flavor and version of Linux I've installed so far on that machine (RedHat/Fedora, Debian Sarge, Open SUSE), the card works perfectly well. In particular, I've never heard anyone so far cribbing about SoundBlaster drivers. Did you ever try to get it work on Linux or Windows XP?
Ever tried restoring a corrupt ODM? Its a hell lot simpler than restoring a Windows Registry. Get your facts right before flamebaiting.
Last month I mailed to IBM pServer support regarding availability of IntelliStations running AIX 6.1. Since we do only application testing we didn't need a server class machine. Never received a reply. I suspected that this was going to happen. HP did this long back to HP-UX.
I cannot understand though since with AIX 6.1 they seemed to be making a plunge towards desktop segment. They were supporting a full-blown version of GNOME with Firefox instead of the crappy CDE. There were many other promising user-friendly features. AIX isn't for home users but a workstation class machine running AIX can be invaluable to an administrator managing large Unix environments.
The two URLs would point to the same site. According to the DNS convention, the trailing dot at the end of URL is always implicit. You specify it or not, http://dk/ will always be parsed as http://dk./ (See RFC 3696). That is what the whole argument about - what implications can occur if you allow a character or a string of characters to be specified as TLD instead od the dot(.). This is certainly going to break the entire concept of DNS that we have known since years.
Nope, its as simple as this. If i can ride on my bicycle from my home to office why would I need a car? The bicycle solves my purpose. So if i just want to read my email and RSS feeds, why should I switch to broadband? Makes no sense.
In the same context, I don't quite understand what Apple got has against the "right-click" functionality.
Their mouse design is simply un-ergonomic; it doesn't fit into the palm nicely, it doesn't have distinguished buttons, the scroll ball is just too tiny and worst of all - it doesn't have a right click feature. Clicking on an object while holding down the shift jey is simply counterintuitive; but they won't change it because they don't want to 'copy' Windows; or Linux whatever it may be.
Looks nice that at last somebody has taken notice of this. Nobody bothered when storage sizes were small. So if 1 GB was pared down by a few bytes by the 1000/1024 calculation, it didn't matter much. But when 40 GB actually came down to near 38 GB and 80 GB to 76 GB, you felt sort of cheated. Rounding off, if necessary, should always done to the lower value. For instance, my old P-II processor machine actually ran at 352 MHz but its advertised speed was 350 MHz.
The problem with these so called "Experts" and "Business Analysts" is that they simply lack the foresight to see into the distant future. Based on some petty statistics, they can predict the business trend for a next couple of years but they simply can't tell what's going to happen 10 or maybe 15 years down the line. Take them 20 years back, and these same "experts" could never have been able to predict that Microsoft would become such a behemoth as it is now.
So simply shut your eyes and ears when "experts" say some thing. Ten years from now they would be saying: Well, there is nothing that can displace Linux from the desktops. OS "XYZ" (some futuristic OS not Microsoft) is not remotely capable of offering a competition to Linux's monopoly and blah blah blah.
Correct. It makes much sense for the web server to see where the request is coming from- whether from a PC or a mobile. If its the latter, the web server can serve a stripped version of the page; if requested. Not all web sites can (or will) implement this feature, but a few select ones can give this a try. Getting a client agent to check what to serve and what to discard will be very sluggish.
Boy! slashdot desperately needs a new moderation system.