When I recently moved locally, I took my (BT) number with me - to my new house, which only has cable. I'm also now ex-directory.
I still get phone calls from telemarketers who think I live at my old address, who try to sell me stuff. I also get calls from people who try to get me to move from BT to a cheaper service. They seem nonplussed when I tell them I'm not with BT.
Yes, I'm registered with the TPS, it seems to make little difference.
I understand that the DVD format isn't free, but getting everything to work correctly was a bit of a chore. THAT is not freedom. THAT is frustration to a new user.
That's nothing to do with linux, in a technical sense. That's an artifically-imposed legal restriction caused by entertainment monopolies who have no idea how to use technology. Don't like it? Write your congresscritter.
If you're on an industrial estate near Scunthorpe, why haven't your cheapskate employers leased, y'know, a proper business connection to the internet instead of trying to squeeze bandwidth out of a consumer product?
By that reasoning then it IS okay for me to walk into Barnes & Noble bookstore and start scanning the books into my portable device. Then take it home and publish it online. After all the books are just sitting there, in public view, for everyone to see or copy. Right?
Nope, not right. Once you step inside Barnes & Noble's door you are no longer in a public place. If on the other hand you attempt to take a book outside to scan it, you have either bought it or stolen it.
Perhaps in the large, cylindrical service module which will be launched by Ares 5 before the crew takes off? The crew capsule is just for earth takeoff and landing. They dock with the rest of the spacecraft in earth orbit before leaving for elsewhere.
Learning facts is a waste of brain capacity. Computers are perfect for storing facts, and quickly looking up the facts we need.
That's assuming that you always have access to a computer. And that it will work where you are. And that it's batteries will last. And you have an internet connection. And that you know what you need to find out.
Don't give me that "I've got an iPhone/whatever" response. How's that going to help you when you're down a mine and need a question answered? Or out at sea, and your boat is about to sink? Or there's a bush fire nearby which might be heading your way?
The facts you only use once are a waste, because they will take longer to learn, than to simply look them up. And all the rest - the ones you're never going to need - are nothing but waste.
The problem with that approach is that you never know when you need to know something, and what you need to find out at that point. My life time of reading everything I can get my hands on means that I can say, "Ah, yes, I seem to remember I noticed something about that, let me see if I can find it again." Lot more efficient time-wise than just floundering about on Google.
"creating new custom chip with the equivalent of 200,000 neurons linked up by 50 million synaptic connections."
"The researchers plan to connect several chips to create a circuit with a billion neurons and 10^13 synapses (about a tenth of the complexity of the human brain)."
An Imperial ton is 2000 lbs(pounds) An Imperial ton is 20 cwt (hundredweight) A hundredweight is 100 pounds The US uses pounds because it sounds bigger IMHO
In the US, maybe. In the UK: An Imperial Ton is 2240 lbs A Hundredweight is 112 lbs
Sounds like the US uses small measures because it seems like things weigh more/are bigger over there.
Same goes for pints/gallons. US pint = 16 fl. oz. UK pint = 20 fl oz. No wonder your cars get so few miles/gallon. No wonder your petrol (sorry, gas) is so cheap.
we run our DSL modems unmanaged - we do not have the ssh password, the admin port allows the managing company to remote in. we have no choice in the matter.
In the UK, you can be drunk in charge of a bicycle. The penalty, absurdly, includes getting point on your car licence.
This gets even more absurd if you happen to be a cyclist because you don't drive; in that case, the authorities will issue you with a driver's licence (that you didn't want and can't use) just so they can put the points on it.
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We all put our pants on one leg at a time... Maybe use Heat-shrink tubing for more ruggedness (if required) but that's it.
You put heatshrink tubing on your legs? Where the fuck do you work that you need to do that?
When I recently moved locally, I took my (BT) number with me - to my new house, which only has cable. I'm also now ex-directory.
I still get phone calls from telemarketers who think I live at my old address, who try to sell me stuff. I also get calls from people who try to get me to move from BT to a cheaper service. They seem nonplussed when I tell them I'm not with BT.
Yes, I'm registered with the TPS, it seems to make little difference.
...as opposed to the cesspit where you found Windows?
If you're going to steal someone's sig, at least get it right.
This is in the UK. A "common carrier" in the UK is an omnibus.
The original Fiestas were made in Spain.
When it's libelous or slanderous?
I understand that the DVD format isn't free, but getting everything to work correctly was a bit of a chore. THAT is not freedom. THAT is frustration to a new user.
That's nothing to do with linux, in a technical sense. That's an artifically-imposed legal restriction caused by entertainment monopolies who have no idea how to use technology. Don't like it? Write your congresscritter.
Seems to work for Jupiter.
it's strong enough to let a lizard climb up a wall. Or a robot.
Why is your lizard climbing up a robot?
If you're on an industrial estate near Scunthorpe, why haven't your cheapskate employers leased, y'know, a proper business connection to the internet instead of trying to squeeze bandwidth out of a consumer product?
So considering that the Greek galleys didn't use sonar
[Citation needed]
Well, there ya go. Prime transport method for viruses, worms, trojans...
You must be new here.
By that reasoning then it IS okay for me to walk into Barnes & Noble bookstore and start scanning the books into my portable device. Then take it home and publish it online. After all the books are just sitting there, in public view, for everyone to see or copy. Right?
Nope, not right. Once you step inside Barnes & Noble's door you are no longer in a public place. If on the other hand you attempt to take a book outside to scan it, you have either bought it or stolen it.
Perhaps in the large, cylindrical service module which will be launched by Ares 5 before the crew takes off? The crew capsule is just for earth takeoff and landing. They dock with the rest of the spacecraft in earth orbit before leaving for elsewhere.
Learning facts is a waste of brain capacity. Computers are perfect for storing facts, and quickly looking up the facts we need.
That's assuming that you always have access to a computer. And that it will work where you are. And that it's batteries will last. And you have an internet connection. And that you know what you need to find out.
Don't give me that "I've got an iPhone/whatever" response. How's that going to help you when you're down a mine and need a question answered? Or out at sea, and your boat is about to sink? Or there's a bush fire nearby which might be heading your way?
The facts you only use once are a waste, because they will take longer to learn, than to simply look them up. And all the rest - the ones you're never going to need - are nothing but waste.
The problem with that approach is that you never know when you need to know something, and what you need to find out at that point. My life time of reading everything I can get my hands on means that I can say, "Ah, yes, I seem to remember I noticed something about that, let me see if I can find it again." Lot more efficient time-wise than just floundering about on Google.
"creating new custom chip with the equivalent of 200,000 neurons linked up by 50 million synaptic connections."
"The researchers plan to connect several chips to create a circuit with a billion neurons and 10^13 synapses (about a tenth of the complexity of the human brain)."
Presumably, for very large values of "several".
An Imperial ton is 2000 lbs(pounds)
An Imperial ton is 20 cwt (hundredweight)
A hundredweight is 100 pounds
The US uses pounds because it sounds bigger IMHO
In the US, maybe. In the UK:
An Imperial Ton is 2240 lbs
A Hundredweight is 112 lbs
Sounds like the US uses small measures because it seems like things weigh more/are bigger over there.
Same goes for pints/gallons.
US pint = 16 fl. oz. UK pint = 20 fl oz. No wonder your cars get so few miles/gallon. No wonder your petrol (sorry, gas) is so cheap.
we run our DSL modems unmanaged - we do not have the ssh password, the admin port allows the managing company to remote in. we have no choice in the matter.
Unmanaged, managed, pick one.
You must be new here.
In the UK, you can be drunk in charge of a bicycle. The penalty, absurdly, includes getting point on your car licence.
This gets even more absurd if you happen to be a cyclist because you don't drive; in that case, the authorities will issue you with a driver's licence (that you didn't want and can't use) just so they can put the points on it.
The question is since when was creationism a science, not whether you should be able to have a degree (presumably an arts degree) in it.
That would be a degree in philosophy, not arts.
There's one flash animation running that's switching out one image for another.
Flash? What's Flash? Oh, I see. Well, if you're loading and running a media player inside a HTML browser, what do you expect?
If you're still using Firefox for something other than Web Developer and Firebug, I'd be willing to say you're doing it wrong.
Get back to me when IE8 runs on Linux...