I hope in UK they have smaller local banks like we have here in the former colonies.
We used to have building societies but most of them converted into banks in the 90's, then they all bought each other, then they merged into the big banks or went bust. So no, not really.
Have you ever shopped for a graphic card recently, with the goal to put that in your Linux box? There's currently only 2 choices: Nvidia or ATI.
I'm just asking for my computer output on DVI / HDMI / VGA... what's that hard and expensive to make?
Has features which I don't care about (eg: 3D and gaming shit...)
Did Intel cease to exist in in the past 24 hours, or am I in a parallel universe?
Rupert Murdoch on the other hand is apparently slipping into senility and is therefore exhibiting periods of forgetfulness and general confusion, the poor man.
Molten sodium and other light metals are highly erosive and destroy the containment pipes they flow through. There are so far no materials that can withstand the corrosion.
Huh? Liquid Sodium cooled reactors are nothing new.
That's pretty much exactly what I ended up doing. Iterating over the string one character at a time (& printing a ':' every two characters) would have been far easier.
C much more so than C++ I would think, especially if you're doing anything involving strings; C really sucks for that stuff
Depends on the problem. Just this week I needed to write a "quick" script that took a MAC address (A string of twelve characters) and add a separator (':' character) every 2 characters.
It took me a good while to figure out a sensible way to do it in Python, but I could have done it in C in about two minutes. Including the time to compile it.
Trains would make more sense. Trains are stable and only go up shallow inclines so it's an ideal mobile platform. The time a train is at a stop would be plenty to top off a flywheel.
Take RedHat. The community immediately took the sources and made CentOS which is used in many small businesses instead of paying for Red Hat.
Well hang on a minute. Yes, let's take RedHat as an example. CentOS and it's cousins like Scientific Linux may well exist, but RedHat are still turning $1b a year in income. RedHat add enough value to their products that apparently there are plenty of people out there who are very happy to pay them rather than use the free alternatives.
If anything I'd argue that the likes of CentOS actually help RedHat. If a company starts on CentOS they may well decide later to "trade up" to RedHat to get access to the benefits of RHEL (perceived or real).
Except cars have standardised. If you get in any car, the gas is on the right and pushing the left stalk up indicates right.
Computers are nowhere near as standard as a car. Just how, in the world of Sundays, does a simplified representation of a dark grey spanner mean "Settings"?
The designers have taken over. We will never the see the likes of Douglas Engelbart again.
I remember the push back I had back in the early 00's when I had the temerity to suggest that icons in a toolbar should have a descriptive text placed below them, on the basis that it makes the icons discoverable. Most of the objections were because "it looked ugly".
Just looking at the Chrome instance I'm typing this in I see users are supposed to know that a grey spanner means "Settings". Ho hum.
Disabling Metro on the desktop will lower the demand for touch monitors as well.
You've missed the point. Why do Microsoft believe that people want or need touch monitors? Why do Microsoft believe large-dimension touch interfaces are better interface than a mouse?
You're missing something really, really obvious. The prices you quote are for PuppetLabs support (Enterprise Puppet). Open Source Puppet is free. Tree it: "apt-get install puppetmaster". I've had ~400 servers running from a single Puppetmaster instance (~4800 divergences per. hour).
Having said all of that, I'd recommend Chef over Puppet these days. Again, Open Source Chef will work perfectly well for free, or you can pay Opscode for support.
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Why? What does that achieve, exactly?
We used to have building societies but most of them converted into banks in the 90's, then they all bought each other, then they merged into the big banks or went bust. So no, not really.
Did Intel cease to exist in in the past 24 hours, or am I in a parallel universe?
That wouldn't be anything new. S3 managed to ruin their hardware with poor software their entire lives.
There's still the emails that James Murdoch hilariously claims to have never seen, despite him having been an executive director and a group lawyer having CC'd him. Obviously reading an email from your lawyer is something an executive director would just never do.
Rupert Murdoch on the other hand is apparently slipping into senility and is therefore exhibiting periods of forgetfulness and general confusion, the poor man.
Fucking Slashdot.
THE EASY WAY
Huh? Liquid Sodium cooled reactors are nothing new.
Are there any other jokes you'd like to drive into the ground for everybody?
573 deaths related to Fukushima? I'd love to see your figures.
2 bottles? I'm an, er, "experienced" drinker, but there's no way I could put away 2 bottles of wine and not wish I hadn't!
What restrictions? Without the GPL, Apple couldn't use the code at all. How is a license to use the code a restriction?
That's pretty much exactly what I ended up doing. Iterating over the string one character at a time (& printing a ':' every two characters) would have been far easier.
Nice try. I'd laugh in your face.
Depends on the problem. Just this week I needed to write a "quick" script that took a MAC address (A string of twelve characters) and add a separator (':' character) every 2 characters.
It took me a good while to figure out a sensible way to do it in Python, but I could have done it in C in about two minutes. Including the time to compile it.
Iterators in C++ are no harder than Python. Hell, basic pointer increments in C aren't exactly rocket surgery.
It's been done.
Well hang on a minute. Yes, let's take RedHat as an example. CentOS and it's cousins like Scientific Linux may well exist, but RedHat are still turning $1b a year in income. RedHat add enough value to their products that apparently there are plenty of people out there who are very happy to pay them rather than use the free alternatives.
If anything I'd argue that the likes of CentOS actually help RedHat. If a company starts on CentOS they may well decide later to "trade up" to RedHat to get access to the benefits of RHEL (perceived or real).
Calm down dumbass. When did I say anything about the rights or wrongs of South Africa having them, or South Africa getting rid of them?
South Africa certainly built nuclear weapons. They're the only country to ever develop an independent nuclear arsenal and then choose to get rid of it.
Except cars have standardised. If you get in any car, the gas is on the right and pushing the left stalk up indicates right.
Computers are nowhere near as standard as a car. Just how, in the world of Sundays, does a simplified representation of a dark grey spanner mean "Settings"?
The designers have taken over. We will never the see the likes of Douglas Engelbart again.
I remember the push back I had back in the early 00's when I had the temerity to suggest that icons in a toolbar should have a descriptive text placed below them, on the basis that it makes the icons discoverable. Most of the objections were because "it looked ugly".
Just looking at the Chrome instance I'm typing this in I see users are supposed to know that a grey spanner means "Settings". Ho hum.
You've missed the point. Why do Microsoft believe that people want or need touch monitors? Why do Microsoft believe large-dimension touch interfaces are better interface than a mouse?
Entire exams have been ruined by incorrect questions. Apparently, reading and writing is not a hard requirement for being a mathematician.
Jesus...
s/Tree/Try/
s/Divergence/Convergence/
You're missing something really, really obvious. The prices you quote are for PuppetLabs support (Enterprise Puppet). Open Source Puppet is free. Tree it: "apt-get install puppetmaster". I've had ~400 servers running from a single Puppetmaster instance (~4800 divergences per. hour).
Having said all of that, I'd recommend Chef over Puppet these days. Again, Open Source Chef will work perfectly well for free, or you can pay Opscode for support.
What're those things? Big, loud boxes. There's usually lots of them in a big, cold room together. Oh yeah, servers!
I think those are probably quite important, too.