Most support at this stage of XP's life consist of security updates. To work with your car analogy, carmakers can be forced to recall and fix vehicles long out of warranty for safety-related issues. My 1972 Ford Capri was recalled in the mid-eighties for a faulty fuel line design. They managed to track me down through the chain of owners and send me an enormous package of paperwork to effect the repair.
A recall which I foolishly ignored, although I checked the clamp myself. I was returning from a weekend away with the then-girlfriend when the engine bay erupted in flame and smoke. That was an exciting day, fortunately no-one was hurt.
Anyway, if you're going to sell me an operating system with faults in it (and I accept that no software is perfect and will require patching to fix those faults), and not include a specific end-of-life date in the EULA, you can continue to provide security fixes until I decide to stop using it. I wonder why MSFT don't licence their OEM OSs for a specific timeframe?
Thanks - I'm glad there's at least a few people out there who don't need to be spoonfed. My assessment piece, a short film (comedy 10mins) left the ending open. You pretty much knew what was going to happen, as the last scene made it obvious that the perpetrator had been caught out, but I left it up to the audience to imagine what his wife was going to do to him. After its screening, some people in the audience came up to me and asked "what happened to him?", but others complimented me on leaving it up to them to imagine. They actually enjoyed playing it out in their own minds.
This probably originated from/b/, but it had a macabre humour to it: (to the tune of spongebob squarepants' theme) "who lives in their houses under the sea?" "japanese people"
In the L500 or L650 ranges. Get an extended warranty - they're not so much more likely to fail, as bl@@dy expensive to fix when they do. Also, Toshiba's extended warranty means courier pick-up and return.
Oh, hells yes. She has a nice feminine voice, and the accent's great, too - but I can't understand the words. I can understand David Tennant when he speaks with his natural accent, but not her.
Nah.... start with the Jon Pertwee episodes. You get Jo Grant AND Sarah Jane Smith as companions. I never liked the Tom Baker shows as much as many others - the stories were good, but the cheap effects really brought it down to the 'cheesy' level.
And as for Amy Pond.......sure she's cute, and smart, and brave, but Karen Gillan's vocal delivery is F#CKING ANNOYING! - She doesn't articulate well - it's like she's trying to get away with minimal facial movements when she talks, and the speech audio on all the shows since the reboot just doesn't seem to work - it's like they've put a narrow-pass filter over the human speech frequencies - I can't make out what they're saying half the time. And it's not my ears - I can hear other TV shows quite well, even shows on the same channel (ABC Australia)/rant
That's sort of how my house operates - except I'm off-grid with PV and batteries. The house was built with dual circuits for delivery of 240VAC and 24VDC. The inverter supplies 240VAC for devices that need it, and the 24VDC is delivered direct from the batteries to the lighting and refrigeration circuits.
The downside is that there are currently (sorry) very few (and expensive, at that) lamps suited for 24VDC - I can get 24 volt halogen bulbs, but I can't afford 24 volt CFLs or LEDs. The upside is that good 240VAC CFLs use much less energy than the 24VDC halogens - so I'm slowly replacing the halogens. Philips and Osram make 2400K CFL bulbs now, so that incandescent "warmth" can be replicated - it's not perfect, but it's getting there. The household circuits originate very close to each other, i.e. the low-voltage DC busbar is only 40cms from the high-voltage AC busbar, so if I want to cut a particular circuit from DC to AC, it's a simple job to move from one to the other. All circuits are wired with standard 3-core 10-amp 240VAC flex, I just have to be careful about loading up the DC circuits - it's easy to get more than 10 amps on a low-voltage DC circuit.
Actually, "application" has been used for some time to differentiate user-type software, from operating system-type software - I heard it used in that context back in the eighties, when I first started messing around with an AS/400.
No, but it makes a difference to WHAT we drink. Day=beer, night=beer, dry=beer, wet=beer, snow=whiskey or rum, BBQ=1 glass of red wine permitted, otherwise beer, clear skies=clear beer, cloudy skies=cloudy beer (homebrew or Cooper's). See? It's simple!
Indeed. Guinness from a tap in Eire tastes different (better) than just about anywhere else. I was impressed with the number of Guinness company cars parked outside Irish pubs - I thought they were just out delivering promo gear (like bar towels?). I eventually asked a publican about it, and he told me that they're visited regularly for quality control purposes - all aspects of the delivery system are checked - temperature, pressure, cleanliness, etc.
Guinness here in OZ doesn't taste as good, unfortunately, and even the widget cans are disappointing. BTW, Beamish is a smoother, creamier stout that I found in a few pubs - Murphy's wasn't bad, either.
And in practical terms, you only base calculations for input on 4-5 hours/day - roughly 9:30am to 2:30pm, because power levels from the panels are relatively low outside those hours. Unless of course, you're using a fancy motorised rig to make the panels follow the sun across the sky during the day, and they consume almost as much energy as they produce - every solar installer I've spoken to said the same thing - take the money you want to spend on the motorised rig, and spend it on a couple of extra PV panels.
Come to think of it, why not use a bimetallic strip to move the panels? Have it set up to face east when the strip is cold, and as it heats up and starts to bend, use it to push the face of the panels to follow the sun.
Ohhhh, bring it on - are you a cockroach, a mexican, or a croweater? VB is what you'll find in the gay bars in Fortitude Valley. It's long been known as the "bachelor's drink".
I say someone just grabs Chow Yun-Fat, gives him a bunch of guns, ten or twenty thousand rounds of ammo, and just shoot the longest running gun-battle in film history. If you're going to be shameless, do it large, and with an actor who can pull it off without blinking or flinching when he shoots the gun. Oh, and show me Mila Jovovich's tits.
Funny you should mention him - he was "approached" about playing Louis Wu in a Ringworld movie. I believe Quincy Jones' production company have/had the movie option on the story.
Slashdot Mirror
Most support at this stage of XP's life consist of security updates. To work with your car analogy, carmakers can be forced to recall and fix vehicles long out of warranty for safety-related issues. My 1972 Ford Capri was recalled in the mid-eighties for a faulty fuel line design. They managed to track me down through the chain of owners and send me an enormous package of paperwork to effect the repair.
A recall which I foolishly ignored, although I checked the clamp myself. I was returning from a weekend away with the then-girlfriend when the engine bay erupted in flame and smoke. That was an exciting day, fortunately no-one was hurt.
Anyway, if you're going to sell me an operating system with faults in it (and I accept that no software is perfect and will require patching to fix those faults), and not include a specific end-of-life date in the EULA, you can continue to provide security fixes until I decide to stop using it. I wonder why MSFT don't licence their OEM OSs for a specific timeframe?
I expected to see a little shiny endoskeleton looking around in confusion while a small blonde figure hides behind a stairway.
A random blog-pologist isn't going to save this one for you.
I parsed that as proctologist. Ah, I see it's redundant. Carry on.
Thanks - I'm glad there's at least a few people out there who don't need to be spoonfed. My assessment piece, a short film (comedy 10mins) left the ending open. You pretty much knew what was going to happen, as the last scene made it obvious that the perpetrator had been caught out, but I left it up to the audience to imagine what his wife was going to do to him. After its screening, some people in the audience came up to me and asked "what happened to him?", but others complimented me on leaving it up to them to imagine. They actually enjoyed playing it out in their own minds.
The party of the first part........
And a new meme is born.....
to make fun of it.
/b/, but it had a macabre humour to it: (to the tune of spongebob squarepants' theme) "who lives in their houses under the sea?" "japanese people"
This probably originated from
In the L500 or L650 ranges. Get an extended warranty - they're not so much more likely to fail, as bl@@dy expensive to fix when they do. Also, Toshiba's extended warranty means courier pick-up and return.
Oh, hells yes. She has a nice feminine voice, and the accent's great, too - but I can't understand the words. I can understand David Tennant when he speaks with his natural accent, but not her.
Nah.... start with the Jon Pertwee episodes. You get Jo Grant AND Sarah Jane Smith as companions. I never liked the Tom Baker shows as much as many others - the stories were good, but the cheap effects really brought it down to the 'cheesy' level.
/rant
And as for Amy Pond.......sure she's cute, and smart, and brave, but Karen Gillan's vocal delivery is F#CKING ANNOYING! - She doesn't articulate well - it's like she's trying to get away with minimal facial movements when she talks, and the speech audio on all the shows since the reboot just doesn't seem to work - it's like they've put a narrow-pass filter over the human speech frequencies - I can't make out what they're saying half the time. And it's not my ears - I can hear other TV shows quite well, even shows on the same channel (ABC Australia)
Danfoss make 24VDC compressors for refrigeration, and they're pretty tough little buggers, too.
That's sort of how my house operates - except I'm off-grid with PV and batteries. The house was built with dual circuits for delivery of 240VAC and 24VDC. The inverter supplies 240VAC for devices that need it, and the 24VDC is delivered direct from the batteries to the lighting and refrigeration circuits.
The downside is that there are currently (sorry) very few (and expensive, at that) lamps suited for 24VDC - I can get 24 volt halogen bulbs, but I can't afford 24 volt CFLs or LEDs. The upside is that good 240VAC CFLs use much less energy than the 24VDC halogens - so I'm slowly replacing the halogens. Philips and Osram make 2400K CFL bulbs now, so that incandescent "warmth" can be replicated - it's not perfect, but it's getting there. The household circuits originate very close to each other, i.e. the low-voltage DC busbar is only 40cms from the high-voltage AC busbar, so if I want to cut a particular circuit from DC to AC, it's a simple job to move from one to the other. All circuits are wired with standard 3-core 10-amp 240VAC flex, I just have to be careful about loading up the DC circuits - it's easy to get more than 10 amps on a low-voltage DC circuit.
Actually, "application" has been used for some time to differentiate user-type software, from operating system-type software - I heard it used in that context back in the eighties, when I first started messing around with an AS/400.
What you're doing - it's not working.
We make cider, too.
And Foster's isn't considered beer by anyone except its maker.
No, but it makes a difference to WHAT we drink. Day=beer, night=beer, dry=beer, wet=beer, snow=whiskey or rum, BBQ=1 glass of red wine permitted, otherwise beer, clear skies=clear beer, cloudy skies=cloudy beer (homebrew or Cooper's). See? It's simple!
Just one example for you today - their sense of visual style - kind of important in graphic design.
Australia calling on line 2
Try Cascade stout - a bit fizzy, but I think it tastes better than Cooper's.
Indeed. Guinness from a tap in Eire tastes different (better) than just about anywhere else. I was impressed with the number of Guinness company cars parked outside Irish pubs - I thought they were just out delivering promo gear (like bar towels?). I eventually asked a publican about it, and he told me that they're visited regularly for quality control purposes - all aspects of the delivery system are checked - temperature, pressure, cleanliness, etc.
Guinness here in OZ doesn't taste as good, unfortunately, and even the widget cans are disappointing. BTW, Beamish is a smoother, creamier stout that I found in a few pubs - Murphy's wasn't bad, either.
Come to think of it, why not use a bimetallic strip to move the panels? Have it set up to face east when the strip is cold, and as it heats up and starts to bend, use it to push the face of the panels to follow the sun.
I give you Fosters, Budweiser, and of course (although not beer-related) Windows. Q.E.D.
+1, that Dark Ale is a ripper. Prefer the Cascade stout, though.
Ohhhh, bring it on - are you a cockroach, a mexican, or a croweater? VB is what you'll find in the gay bars in Fortitude Valley. It's long been known as the "bachelor's drink".
Funny you should mention him - he was "approached" about playing Louis Wu in a Ringworld movie. I believe Quincy Jones' production company have/had the movie option on the story.