Yes, though (as I understand it) giffgaff are actually part of O2 and are just a brand for their no-phone SIMs
Not quite - they're a different company (though wholly owned by O2) that uses the O2 network, but they're a separate entity that offer quite a different deal and compete with O2 pay-as-you-go. You get their SIM for free and stick it in whatever phone you have. I'm a customer (at £10/m for unlimited data*, txt & 240 mins of speech) that's quite happy with their crowdsourced support (members support each other) in return for a much cheaper deal. Calls to other giffgaff users are free as well. When I looked for the best deal for my n900 it made sense for me and still does.
Be more concerned about frequency hopping mobile devices that use a PRNG to communicate with another device over a range of frequencies and encoding techniques... That requires a LOT more equipment to sort out where the signal is coming from. Actually, that's pretty much what the military does... o_o
Yes, thanks in no small part to Heady Lamarr. Now that's a factoid.
Are you suggesting that lichen is not the evolutionary pinnacle of plant evolution? Oh sure, maybe your fancy trees produce more nutrients per unit land area, but AT WHAT COST?
Yeah, I know that was a funny, but the tree's cost is that it's competing against other trees. This tower is useless if it shades other towers - like a tree, the cost is to the other trees that it's competing against.
except in the UK where they ask your religion, your sexual preference, your race etc
That info is for monitoring that they're not discriminating, it shouldn't be passed to anybody with any part in the decision on whether to hire you or not. It's supposed to help combat discrimination. It should be separated from anything that's passed to the panel that decides the hire and the stats from these forms would form a big part of a discrimnation case if somebody felt that they'd been discriminated against. It's also optional to supply that information. Whether it actually works, I have no opinion.
Surely there are others here who've been to the pub? I was there on the Open Repositories Conference 2008. Huge beer garden straight out of Spinal Tap without the budget (check out the gallery on the website). Great disturbed poet (think McGonagall after 20 years of acid) on a synth that night. Great black-painted old-school longhairds' pub. Good luck to them.
I prefer some of it to the Steve Jackson version. It was the first film I ever saw in the cinema and had to be carried out crying, it was pretty dark for a 6 year old, still is. I'm gutted that they didn't manage to finish it (IIRC it ends with the defeat of Saruman - possibly the entirity of TTT). It certainly deserves a viewing.
Doesn't seem to be the solder connections from the usb connector that are the problem on mine - it's something to do with the connector itself. My original Nokia charger doesn't work anymore, my wife's HTC charger does - it has more prominent tiny tabs on the micro USB plug which seems to make the difference. I'm dreading the day that that stops working. I've got a spare battery and I can swap them, but that requires powering down, of course.
I really don't get the "she's going to die" comments; this is Blue Peter - a UK (middle class, losing audience) BBC kids' show. There will be tens of thousands of kids following her attempt, she'll have scads of logistical support. If she gets into real difficulties, don't be suprised if Prince WIlliam flies her out, she's in no way doing this 'solo'. She is really doing it (though not cycling all the way, as I understand) but you really don't get a high-profile BBC presenter putting her life at risk in front of kids. Although they've done really risky things in the past (those of you who thought that John Noakes was just a humourous character should read up) by now there's no chance that the BBC would be taking a serious risk,but those of you who think this is a suicide mission or doomed to fail can look forward to watching the kid-friendly "it was really hard but worth it" episodes later on, (or possibly the "she broke a leg and was airlifted out 100 miles out").
Nobody's going to be seeing a Blue Peter death here, that's just for the pets. And good on Blue Peter for showing young girls that they can aspire to something other than X-Factor (though I think it's pointless, same as with all other ''explorer' antics, other than as a personal goal).
Oh there go my mods, but I had to call this one. 35k rounds for each American killed, sure. I doubt if there were 1.7 trillion rounds fired to account for the 50 million killed in total.
Ugh. The LOTR cartoon by Ralph Bashki was a complete abomination. He didn't animate that movie. He had actors play the scenes and then he traced over their images.
aka rotoscoping, which I thought was very effective in that film, and has a long history which didn't end with Bashki's LOTR.
I'm guessing we're going to be looking at navel wiring before we find one.
How will umbilical cords help here? I'm confused.
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?I am pleased to say that I was the one who first added Vim to the Sunsite Linux archive back in 1993.
Since nobody else seems to have done so, can I send you very warm thanks? My skin still crawls when I'm on a system and I get:
vim: command not found...and have to resort to 'vi'. Can I also send you karma for mentioning Sunsite, which nobody much on./ seems to have has any recollection of nowardays, which was particularly galling the in the Sun (ghod rest their bones) bashing days of the 200?s.
That's KDE, and what's with Gnome? Gnome3 consists nearly solely of regressions, there's barely any functionality left. The primary mode, "gnome-shell" is beyond words, acting as everyone has fat fingers on a 3'' touchscreen, combining worst ideas of iPhone and Windows Phone ("you can't run a program more than once", etc). The secondary mode, "gnome-fallback" is a bad joke too -- no usable panel, no desktop, no messing with the menu (try right clicking... try dragging...).
Hear, hear. As a very happy Fedora Core user up until FC14 (and not just on my home machines, we're RHEL at work servers, and FC on dev workstations) I'm very unhappy with Gnome3, and just can't understand this terrible move, I've asked the dev team to stay at FC14 as Gnome3 is just a train wreck for me, I can't believe that the lunatics have taken over the asylum in such a way. It'll get better but in the meantime I'm now fighting my desktop rather than sailing it. Gnome-shell just doesn't cut it for a workstation (I'm sure if I had a 7" tablet it'd be fine) and the fallback mode is so buggy it's atrocious. Maybe a fresh install would help out, but I've nuked my.gnome* and the problems are still showstoppers.
Call me grandad, but I can't believe that they've dumped all "power users" (for want of a better term, I woudn't have put myself in that category before this) for this.
Compare it to JPEG2000 vs JPEG, for example - licensing issues have hindered JPEG2000 adoption
JPEG2000 part1 is licence-free. The main barrier to adoption has been the lack of performant free implementations. A subtle difference, but worth pointing out.
We have the same issues with some accented characters, and the solution that I'll implement (if I ever get round to it) is to rasterize the string and print it as an image. No reason why it shouldn't work (dunno if zebra thermal printers can print graphics).
The one real problem for me is actually some driver for certain types of devices, like zebra thermal printers and such
I don't know what you did to fix this, but for zebra card printers, they have pretty good documentation, and I wrote my own userland apps to talk raw ZPL (IIRC) to create cards (figuring out the image printing was a PITA). Funny thing is that I got much better results than the commercial windows application I was replacing, which was pretty crap (printing black by overlaying YMC rather then the black K layer). It wan't fun but I haven't had to touch if for years. I guess the thermal printers are wildly different, but possibly simpler, though.
Is the new offer solid? Is it subject to references? Is the new company solid, or a startup that could disappear? You'll need a good reference from your present employer if the new company tanks, but if it's a long term contract or a permanent post with the new company then that may not be such an issue. Is the new post one that you'd enjoy? There's lots of people saying "screw them, they'd screw you" but from what I know of small dev companies in the UK, I think they're showing a US bias.
You've given us an figure for the income raise you're getting, rather than a %age, so I can't really tell what level you're at, which would be useful (though I understand why you may not share this). Will this take you into the higher-rate tax band (making that £7k smaller, losing family allowance from 2013, other considerations)? Flat salary isn't everything, you need to consider pension and other benefits (I'm sure you have, but you haven't shared that, so we can't figure that in).
Share your quandary with your company. The 45 min commute is costing you, both in hours and quality of life. Give them a chance to step up and match the offer + compensation for that commute. If your leaving will cost them as much as you say, they'll be happy to do that, and you'll have shown your loyalty by giving them this chance, but be sure to spell out exactly what you're expecting from them. Your CV will be enhanced if you stick with them to getting a 'flagship' product out the door, and if they're really your friends and have proper business acumen they'll be happy to have this chance to keep you. Just be sure that you're strong enough to resist any "jam tomorrow" promises and stress that this isn't a bluff or blackmail attempt (not in those words, though). Unless you live in the middle of a tech zone, they're going to know who's offering you the job, so be certain that whoever you approach isn't somebody who's going to wreck your new offer. If you have any doubts about this strategy, that's probably a sign that you don't really trust your present company and you should just jump ship.
Good luck, whatever you do. Note that if any of your present company management are./ers then they'll probably finger you for this post if you approach them, not that that should matter, you've been very honest about your dilemma, just don't be surprised.
Don't blame the kid that bought the Helium, blame the helium repositories that don't price it as the scarce resource that it is.
ie, blame Congress, who passed the Helium Privatization Act of 1996 forcing the stockpile to be sold cheap regardless of any market forces on scarcity.
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Yes, though (as I understand it) giffgaff are actually part of O2 and are just a brand for their no-phone SIMs
Not quite - they're a different company (though wholly owned by O2) that uses the O2 network, but they're a separate entity that offer quite a different deal and compete with O2 pay-as-you-go. You get their SIM for free and stick it in whatever phone you have. I'm a customer (at £10/m for unlimited data*, txt & 240 mins of speech) that's quite happy with their crowdsourced support (members support each other) in return for a much cheaper deal. Calls to other giffgaff users are free as well. When I looked for the best deal for my n900 it made sense for me and still does.
* - no tethering
We're both wrong, that's Hedy!
Be more concerned about frequency hopping mobile devices that use a PRNG to communicate with another device over a range of frequencies and encoding techniques... That requires a LOT more equipment to sort out where the signal is coming from. Actually, that's pretty much what the military does... o_o
Yes, thanks in no small part to Heady Lamarr. Now that's a factoid.
Are you suggesting that lichen is not the evolutionary pinnacle of plant evolution? Oh sure, maybe your fancy trees produce more nutrients per unit land area, but AT WHAT COST?
Yeah, I know that was a funny, but the tree's cost is that it's competing against other trees. This tower is useless if it shades other towers - like a tree, the cost is to the other trees that it's competing against.
except in the UK where they ask your religion, your sexual preference, your race etc
That info is for monitoring that they're not discriminating, it shouldn't be passed to anybody with any part in the decision on whether to hire you or not. It's supposed to help combat discrimination. It should be separated from anything that's passed to the panel that decides the hire and the stats from these forms would form a big part of a discrimnation case if somebody felt that they'd been discriminated against. It's also optional to supply that information. Whether it actually works, I have no opinion.
Surely there are others here who've been to the pub? I was there on the Open Repositories Conference 2008. Huge beer garden straight out of Spinal Tap without the budget (check out the gallery on the website). Great disturbed poet (think McGonagall after 20 years of acid) on a synth that night. Great black-painted old-school longhairds' pub. Good luck to them.
I prefer some of it to the Steve Jackson version. It was the first film I ever saw in the cinema and had to be carried out crying, it was pretty dark for a 6 year old, still is. I'm gutted that they didn't manage to finish it (IIRC it ends with the defeat of Saruman - possibly the entirity of TTT). It certainly deserves a viewing.
If I read a copy of the "Anarchists Cookbook", am I now a terrorist?
Well, in the UK it'll get you a prosecution: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7030096.stm
He was found not guilty ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/4059335.stm ) but another day...
Doesn't seem to be the solder connections from the usb connector that are the problem on mine - it's something to do with the connector itself. My original Nokia charger doesn't work anymore, my wife's HTC charger does - it has more prominent tiny tabs on the micro USB plug which seems to make the difference. I'm dreading the day that that stops working. I've got a spare battery and I can swap them, but that requires powering down, of course.
I really don't get the "she's going to die" comments; this is Blue Peter - a UK (middle class, losing audience) BBC kids' show. There will be tens of thousands of kids following her attempt, she'll have scads of logistical support. If she gets into real difficulties, don't be suprised if Prince WIlliam flies her out, she's in no way doing this 'solo'. She is really doing it (though not cycling all the way, as I understand) but you really don't get a high-profile BBC presenter putting her life at risk in front of kids. Although they've done really risky things in the past (those of you who thought that John Noakes was just a humourous character should read up) by now there's no chance that the BBC would be taking a serious risk,but those of you who think this is a suicide mission or doomed to fail can look forward to watching the kid-friendly "it was really hard but worth it" episodes later on, (or possibly the "she broke a leg and was airlifted out 100 miles out").
Nobody's going to be seeing a Blue Peter death here, that's just for the pets. And good on Blue Peter for showing young girls that they can aspire to something other than X-Factor (though I think it's pointless, same as with all other ''explorer' antics, other than as a personal goal).
Oh there go my mods, but I had to call this one. 35k rounds for each American killed, sure. I doubt if there were 1.7 trillion rounds fired to account for the 50 million killed in total.
No mod up? Get off my lawn!
Ugh. The LOTR cartoon by Ralph Bashki was a complete abomination. He didn't animate that movie. He had actors play the scenes and then he traced over their images.
aka rotoscoping, which I thought was very effective in that film, and has a long history which didn't end with Bashki's LOTR.
Even paintings now, some % after every sale goes back to the artist after the first sale.
UK too: http://www.artquest.org.uk/articles/view/first-semester-report1
I'm guessing we're going to be looking at navel wiring before we find one.
How will umbilical cords help here? I'm confused.
?I am pleased to say that I was the one who first added Vim to the Sunsite Linux archive back in 1993.
Since nobody else seems to have done so, can I send you very warm thanks? My skin still crawls when I'm on a system and I get:
vim: command not found ...and have to resort to 'vi'. Can I also send you karma for mentioning Sunsite, which nobody much on ./ seems to have has any recollection of nowardays, which was particularly galling the in the Sun (ghod rest their bones) bashing days of the 200?s.
That's KDE, and what's with Gnome? Gnome3 consists nearly solely of regressions, there's barely any functionality left. The primary mode, "gnome-shell" is beyond words, acting as everyone has fat fingers on a 3'' touchscreen, combining worst ideas of iPhone and Windows Phone ("you can't run a program more than once", etc). The secondary mode, "gnome-fallback" is a bad joke too -- no usable panel, no desktop, no messing with the menu (try right clicking... try dragging...).
Hear, hear. As a very happy Fedora Core user up until FC14 (and not just on my home machines, we're RHEL at work servers, and FC on dev workstations) I'm very unhappy with Gnome3, and just can't understand this terrible move, I've asked the dev team to stay at FC14 as Gnome3 is just a train wreck for me, I can't believe that the lunatics have taken over the asylum in such a way. It'll get better but in the meantime I'm now fighting my desktop rather than sailing it. Gnome-shell just doesn't cut it for a workstation (I'm sure if I had a 7" tablet it'd be fine) and the fallback mode is so buggy it's atrocious. Maybe a fresh install would help out, but I've nuked my .gnome* and the problems are still showstoppers.
Call me grandad, but I can't believe that they've dumped all "power users" (for want of a better term, I woudn't have put myself in that category before this) for this.
Compare it to JPEG2000 vs JPEG, for example - licensing issues have hindered JPEG2000 adoption
JPEG2000 part1 is licence-free. The main barrier to adoption has been the lack of performant free implementations. A subtle difference, but worth pointing out.
We have the same issues with some accented characters, and the solution that I'll implement (if I ever get round to it) is to rasterize the string and print it as an image. No reason why it shouldn't work (dunno if zebra thermal printers can print graphics).
The one real problem for me is actually some driver for certain types of devices, like zebra thermal printers and such
I don't know what you did to fix this, but for zebra card printers, they have pretty good documentation, and I wrote my own userland apps to talk raw ZPL (IIRC) to create cards (figuring out the image printing was a PITA). Funny thing is that I got much better results than the commercial windows application I was replacing, which was pretty crap (printing black by overlaying YMC rather then the black K layer). It wan't fun but I haven't had to touch if for years. I guess the thermal printers are wildly different, but possibly simpler, though.
Is the new offer solid? Is it subject to references? Is the new company solid, or a startup that could disappear? You'll need a good reference from your present employer if the new company tanks, but if it's a long term contract or a permanent post with the new company then that may not be such an issue. Is the new post one that you'd enjoy? There's lots of people saying "screw them, they'd screw you" but from what I know of small dev companies in the UK, I think they're showing a US bias.
You've given us an figure for the income raise you're getting, rather than a %age, so I can't really tell what level you're at, which would be useful (though I understand why you may not share this). Will this take you into the higher-rate tax band (making that £7k smaller, losing family allowance from 2013, other considerations)? Flat salary isn't everything, you need to consider pension and other benefits (I'm sure you have, but you haven't shared that, so we can't figure that in).
Share your quandary with your company. The 45 min commute is costing you, both in hours and quality of life. Give them a chance to step up and match the offer + compensation for that commute. If your leaving will cost them as much as you say, they'll be happy to do that, and you'll have shown your loyalty by giving them this chance, but be sure to spell out exactly what you're expecting from them. Your CV will be enhanced if you stick with them to getting a 'flagship' product out the door, and if they're really your friends and have proper business acumen they'll be happy to have this chance to keep you. Just be sure that you're strong enough to resist any "jam tomorrow" promises and stress that this isn't a bluff or blackmail attempt (not in those words, though). Unless you live in the middle of a tech zone, they're going to know who's offering you the job, so be certain that whoever you approach isn't somebody who's going to wreck your new offer. If you have any doubts about this strategy, that's probably a sign that you don't really trust your present company and you should just jump ship.
Good luck, whatever you do. Note that if any of your present company management are ./ers then they'll probably finger you for this post if you approach them, not that that should matter, you've been very honest about your dilemma, just don't be surprised.
From the beginning, the half-smirking explicit intent of the majority of the alt.* hierarchy was "megabytes of copyright violations."
No it wasn't, newbie. Get off my lawn.
alt.* was outside the offical hierarchy, but was still text discussion, not copyright infringement - check out the archives.
Don't blame the kid that bought the Helium, blame the helium repositories that don't price it as the scarce resource that it is.
ie, blame Congress, who passed the Helium Privatization Act of 1996 forcing the stockpile to be sold cheap regardless of any market forces on scarcity.
Woosh.
Typical MS, ripping off great ideas from OSS.