Don't know what fuel costs in the states but here in the UK, we are already paying the equivalent of over US$2 for unleaded.
That is presumably per litre and not per gallon BTW (3.79 litres per gallon). Most of that is tax which is one reason the US is where I plan to be the rest of my life.
Don't try and scp disk files directly from the server, it won't work due to the special filesystem vmware ESX server uses (and unfortunately, you can't export to stdout or to a network share so be careful when setting up initial partitions). You have to export it first. You may need to import them if you scp them to it too (I haven't had the need to do that so far).
Go out, buy a $2 roll of duct tape and take some responsibility for your environment. Two or three strips should be enough to stop someone using the thing. Sheesh.
Having had to go through every "stuff" box in the house several times looking for things before, I now leave everything out of the boxes I have gone through and explain that hiding things in boxes is *not* tidying.
Though I actually don't do that anymore because my wife managed to break herself of the habit (though it could have gone badly so YMMV). However, some compromise did help. Setting up a couple of "junk drops" where my wife can deposit *my* stuff I have left out means she can get stuff straight in a hurry if she needs to. Trying to make sure that important stuff isn't left out at all makes things easier too (the junk drops help there too). Every now and then when I'm heading in the right direction, I'll grab some stuff from the junk drops and put it away where it's supposed to go.
Rich
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Where does that two-pin connector that is used in AC adaptors come in? The one which lets you choose which end connector and which has absolutely no kind of retention other than friction and hope and, because it is reversible, when it does fall out, you have to hope you are plugging it back in the right way or that your equipment has reverse polarity protection (That one has to get my vote for #1 worst connector ever).
Rich
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1961: The Japanese hollow tube power plug! 10001 different voltages and currents in one connector! Lotsa sales there of replacement radios.
Not to mention comes in a dozen or so slightly different dimensions including some that are almost-but-not-quite the right size but work if you angle the plug.
1972: Of the Ma Bell RJ modular connectors, we will not speak. Anybody can make a mistake and make a sturdy, usable, latching connector once in a while. Luckily our agents infiltrated the factories and made the latches prone to snag on wires and break off after five uses. A partial recovery for the forces of connector darkness!
Round these parts, the phone co attempts to make up for it by installing a socket box with a spring loaded cover which means you need two hands to insert or remove the thing.
1974: 40-pin flat cable connectors: Another goal for our side! Connectors with no latching or detents, plus 180 degree ambiguity! Lots of smoke if you guess wrong!
And let's not forget the floppy connector which frequently didn'd have any kind of enclosure leading to off-by-one errors whilst fumbling around inside low-visibility cases.
2003: The SATA connector! A home run! No useful grounding, no shielding, and it falls out if you just look at it!
Real smart. Like everyone isn't going to think that IO stands for Input/Output
Rich
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You jest but I have the SATA connector hot-glued on my home system because it took only a little force to break the plastic bit off. Luckily the electrical connections were still good. I put the plastic bit back, slid the conenctor back on then hot-glued one big lump. (This after trying a couple of times to reglue the plastic bit. I didn't ever have much hope of that though).
The issue in the past is that when any company has become sufficiently succesful in a particular IT field, Microsoft has moved in and either bought them out or thrown money at developing their own version. Any company that hopes to stand up to Microsoft has been unable to fund the fight and must either give in or go down fighting. So far.
What we're hopefully seeing here with Google is a company that can face up to and outperform Microsoft and continue to do so while Microsoft burns through money trying to put them out of business. Then end of Microsoft's ability to do whatever it wants and put down whoever it wants would be a great boon to the world of computing.
The slow uptake of XP and the potential even slower uptake of Vista only feed into the process. Truly we are living in interesting times.
Oh and the universe is expanding, and God only knows how fast that is going.
Don't they teach anything in schools anymore?...
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at 900 miles an hour That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned A sun that is the source of all our power The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way
Our galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars It's 100,000 light-years side-to-side It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick But out by us it's just 3000 light-years wide We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point We go round every 200 million years And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whiz As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure How amazingly unlikely is your birth And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space Because there's bugger all down here on Earth"
Agreed. I love my Palm TX and thought it was a sign of better things to come. Palm has released nothing in the same line for over 12 months seemingly only concerned with the Treo line. By all evidence, Palm has given up the PDA market and is just hanging around for the end.
No, a smart college kid would choose a career based on what would bring in huge wads of cash, become independently wealthy and then semi-retire doing what they loved to do. Much preferable to the alternative of getting into a career where your choices are limited by what your employer offers and it's hard (if, admittedly not impossible) to dig yourself out of having to work for someone else.
If I had it all over again, I would have studied law and been thinking of retiring about now to do more or less what I'm doing now but on my agenda and in the hours that I choose.
Another tip is to get your career on the course you want before you get married. Big changes in career become a lot harder when you have dependents, particularly children.
The parent is the first post in this topic that actually describes the way in which shilling is actually fraudulent. It's the withdrawing of the topping bid that causes the trouble. Someone please mod informative.
As an additional note, the "pound and a shilling" makes sense pre-decimilization since the shilling was 12p and there were 20 shilligs to a pound. Since that is already divisible by 2,3,4 and 6, (prime factors 2 and 3), the guinea adds the prime factor 7 and makes the amount divisible by many more numbers (though not 5).
The shilling was replaced by the decimal "5p" of course, bringing an end to all that nonsense. It's not obvious what a modern equivalent would be. 1.05 gives divisible by 7 and 3 but not 4 or 6 or perhaps most importantly, 2. 1.20 give 2,3,4,5 and 6 and then 8 and 10.
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Don't know what fuel costs in the states but here in the UK, we are already paying the equivalent of over US$2 for unleaded.
That is presumably per litre and not per gallon BTW (3.79 litres per gallon). Most of that is tax which is one reason the US is where I plan to be the rest of my life.
Rich
With the large number of comments in the same vein on this thread, I'd like to propose a new nickname for the late Mr Valenti:
Saltpetre Jack"
Rich
RIP Mr Valenti
I tried to but I couldn't crack the DRM.
Rich
Looks like Rim is going from the embrace to extend phase of their relationship with Microsoft. It's only a matter of time before Extinguish.
Didn't get the reference then? :)
Rich
I've heard that they don't actually drink Um Bongo in the Congo either. Shocking.
Rich
Don't try and scp disk files directly from the server, it won't work due to the special filesystem vmware ESX server uses (and unfortunately, you can't export to stdout or to a network share so be careful when setting up initial partitions). You have to export it first. You may need to import them if you scp them to it too (I haven't had the need to do that so far).
And this one
Rich
I though Alanis Morissette was Canadian-American, not Irish
Rich
Go out, buy a $2 roll of duct tape and take some responsibility for your environment. Two or three strips should be enough to stop someone using the thing. Sheesh.
Rich
Having had to go through every "stuff" box in the house several times looking for things before, I now leave everything out of the boxes I have gone through and explain that hiding things in boxes is *not* tidying.
Though I actually don't do that anymore because my wife managed to break herself of the habit (though it could have gone badly so YMMV). However, some compromise did help. Setting up a couple of "junk drops" where my wife can deposit *my* stuff I have left out means she can get stuff straight in a hurry if she needs to. Trying to make sure that important stuff isn't left out at all makes things easier too (the junk drops help there too). Every now and then when I'm heading in the right direction, I'll grab some stuff from the junk drops and put it away where it's supposed to go.
Rich
Where does that two-pin connector that is used in AC adaptors come in? The one which lets you choose which end connector and which has absolutely no kind of retention other than friction and hope and, because it is reversible, when it does fall out, you have to hope you are plugging it back in the right way or that your equipment has reverse polarity protection (That one has to get my vote for #1 worst connector ever).
Rich
1961: The Japanese hollow tube power plug! 10001 different voltages and currents in one connector! Lotsa sales there of replacement radios.
Not to mention comes in a dozen or so slightly different dimensions including some that are almost-but-not-quite the right size but work if you angle the plug.
1972: Of the Ma Bell RJ modular connectors, we will not speak. Anybody can make a mistake and make a sturdy, usable, latching connector once in a while. Luckily our agents infiltrated the factories and made the latches prone to snag on wires and break off after five uses. A partial recovery for the forces of connector darkness!
Round these parts, the phone co attempts to make up for it by installing a socket box with a spring loaded cover which means you need two hands to insert or remove the thing.
1974: 40-pin flat cable connectors: Another goal for our side! Connectors with no latching or detents, plus 180 degree ambiguity! Lots of smoke if you guess wrong!
And let's not forget the floppy connector which frequently didn'd have any kind of enclosure leading to off-by-one errors whilst fumbling around inside low-visibility cases.
2003: The SATA connector! A home run! No useful grounding, no shielding, and it falls out if you just look at it!
Also fragile and prone to breakage.
Rich
Real smart. Like everyone isn't going to think that IO stands for Input/Output
Rich
You jest but I have the SATA connector hot-glued on my home system because it took only a little force to break the plastic bit off. Luckily the electrical connections were still good. I put the plastic bit back, slid the conenctor back on then hot-glued one big lump. (This after trying a couple of times to reglue the plastic bit. I didn't ever have much hope of that though).
Rich
Hey, the US came in 2nd and 7th. That's just greedy.
Rich
The issue in the past is that when any company has become sufficiently succesful in a particular IT field, Microsoft has moved in and either bought them out or thrown money at developing their own version. Any company that hopes to stand up to Microsoft has been unable to fund the fight and must either give in or go down fighting. So far.
What we're hopefully seeing here with Google is a company that can face up to and outperform Microsoft and continue to do so while Microsoft burns through money trying to put them out of business. Then end of Microsoft's ability to do whatever it wants and put down whoever it wants would be a great boon to the world of computing.
The slow uptake of XP and the potential even slower uptake of Vista only feed into the process. Truly we are living in interesting times.
Rich
Oh and the universe is expanding, and God only knows how fast that is going.
Don't they teach anything in schools anymore?...
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way
Our galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars
It's 100,000 light-years side-to-side
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick
But out by us it's just 3000 light-years wide
We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point
We go round every 200 million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
Because there's bugger all down here on Earth"
Agreed. I love my Palm TX and thought it was a sign of better things to come. Palm has released nothing in the same line for over 12 months seemingly only concerned with the Treo line. By all evidence, Palm has given up the PDA market and is just hanging around for the end.
Rich
No, a smart college kid would choose a career based on what would bring in huge wads of cash, become independently wealthy and then semi-retire doing what they loved to do. Much preferable to the alternative of getting into a career where your choices are limited by what your employer offers and it's hard (if, admittedly not impossible) to dig yourself out of having to work for someone else.
If I had it all over again, I would have studied law and been thinking of retiring about now to do more or less what I'm doing now but on my agenda and in the hours that I choose.
Another tip is to get your career on the course you want before you get married. Big changes in career become a lot harder when you have dependents, particularly children.
Rich
You know, I see a lot of people say that. Yet none of them ever actually do state what the plural of anecdote is. I think they have something to hide.
RIch
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the whole nine yards.
It failed because that's too big to slip into your pocket.
Rich
The parent is the first post in this topic that actually describes the way in which shilling is actually fraudulent. It's the withdrawing of the topping bid that causes the trouble. Someone please mod informative.
Rich
As an additional note, the "pound and a shilling" makes sense pre-decimilization since the shilling was 12p and there were 20 shilligs to a pound. Since that is already divisible by 2,3,4 and 6, (prime factors 2 and 3), the guinea adds the prime factor 7 and makes the amount divisible by many more numbers (though not 5).
The shilling was replaced by the decimal "5p" of course, bringing an end to all that nonsense. It's not obvious what a modern equivalent would be. 1.05 gives divisible by 7 and 3 but not 4 or 6 or perhaps most importantly, 2. 1.20 give 2,3,4,5 and 6 and then 8 and 10.
Rich