Given how many office/university buildings have little yellow stickers on them (like asbestos ones) marking wall as firewalls, I agree. +2 or +3 would be about right..
Remember that the dust is pure silicon, which can be reclaimed and recast, without needing to be refined again. This cuts some (but not all) of the waste.
There are Java compilers for creating Win32 binaries, although you would need to use JNI wrappers to use windows GUIs rather than AWT or Swing. The GCJ (GNU compiler for Java) includes both a bytecode and binary compiler, and work with the GDB, although it only supports up to Java 1.4 (see http://gcc.gnu.org/java/)
That has been reported in England with roofing slates. The thief simply drives up with a van painted as a roofing contractor, sets up a ladder and some scaffolding, and removes the tiles (this was some years ago, when health and safety regulations were less strict). When a home owner caught them, they simply presented fake documents for the house net door, put up a tarpaulin, and drove off.
People have also stolen the granite setts of of public roads with a digger, lorry, and a few cones.
Furthermore, it is a text-based format, making it future proof, since the text can always be recovered. Also, Word Pad can edit the text in RTF tables, although it cannot add cells or create tables.
There should be two grades of citizenship, adult and child. Anyone who becomes a citizen automatically (born in the USA, parents are citizens, etc.) should receive a child citizenship, which gives permanent residency, entitlement to a passport and the like. Then, when turning 18, people could choose to take the naturalisation test and become full citizens, with voting rights. This would help ensure that people are able to understand at least the basics of the constitution and legal system. It also rectifies the ridiculous situation that occurs in Australia, where in one school I know of, most of the year 11 (16-17 y.o.) students could not answer more than one or two of the leaked test questions (all of these students were Australian citizens, and are now eligible to vote), suggesting that newly naturalised migrants are better suited to participate in the political process than natural-born citizens. This was a mainstream class in a fee-paying school in a state capital.
Of course, magnetic disks are still the best things we have for the hard-drive niche, at least for the next few years, given that only RAM + batteries or flash memory really compete, and both are more expensive, and flash has a much more limited life (counting writes), making it very bad for things like swap partitions or temp files. In the more distant future, I am sure something will replace HDDs, just like RAM chips replaced magnetic drums and HDDs replaced cards and paper tape, but they will be here for some time yet.
Australian politicians in both the cabinet and shadow cabinet, at both federal and state levels) have government chauffeur-driven cars, so they would not have to pay personally anyway (of course there could be a political cost, but it would be relatively small outside the election season). I don't know if this is the case in other countries, but I would assume so.
TeXaide uses an almost identical menu system to MathType and is gratis. there are WYSIWIG LaTeX environments, but given that you can do most reports using the templates which came with your distro and a few commands (enumerate, list, and description environments for lists, figure, and table, the sectioning commands (which are very intuitive), and a few others). Jabref + BibTeX handles bibliographies with far less effort than word needs, and needs no knowledge of whatever format you are required to use. When I first used LaTeX, it was working through TeXnic Center, and I had at that time no no programming experience, and yet I was able to produce a scientific report with a lot of equations, tables [*], and figures with less effort than if I had used word. It does not take long to learn the commonly used commands. The TeXnic Center help is very good, since it includes most of the major packages, and links to CTAN.
* To be honest, tables are a PITA if you need to do anything fancy.
Bester would be a better president than several of the candidates, or Bush: at least he is a stylish slimy toad who ddoesn't care that normal people hate him and everything about him. And he has such good one-liners
While UTF8 raw text and ODF are both sensible formats, CSV seems like a poor choice for data owing to its horrible escaping conventions and subtly inconsistent implementations. Surely a better format would be a pipe separated DSV, which is a much cleaner format.
Using a second stick is not beyond the wit of man. The problem that the logs may show you copying files to your stick, but then they would also most likely show you using stenography in that case as well.
If you embed the fonts in a DOCX, within the EULA, and send the document to someone else, then if they have some program capable of extracting embedded fonts from OOX, neither person would have broken the licence, unless M$ can prove that the publisher intended for the receiver to pirate the fonts.
>I agree the numeral choice is not just dumb. It is playing straight into the hands of phishers of all sorts.
Not especially, since the address bar and status line in almost every browser I have used have been set to either a sans serif or typewriter font, not the Roman face (except for some Fx themes, but those who can be bothered to change their theme would also be almost certain to have other phishing protection). If you are thinking of forged email return addresses, then there is already I/l, 1/l, vv/w and plenty of others, and banks and the government have for years (at least where I am) been warning users about those combinations, so one more is hardly "playing straight into the hands of phishers"
It is safer to write something on it to make the paper invalid, like ticking all the boxes, or adding CmdrTaco/Julius Caesar/Jesus/yourself to the paper and marking that, preventing your paper being used for one of the candidates.
However, as he explained in the forward to one of his collections (I forget which), the Three Laws are more a set of design principles, which he abstracted from looking at a knife: a tool must be safe to use; it must do its job, whilst remaining safe; and it must not break unless that is needed to do its job or remain safe. Whist they cannot be literally applied, common sense requires the informal use of the Three Laws in any tool.
What is needed is some sort of CTAN equivalent, with links to the repositories for GNOME, KDE, command-line only, and any other versions of software, with links to both the dev and stable versions, all in a machine-readable format, so that it is trivial to write a GUI to check out the relevant source code (with the stable version as default), prompt for a location and the root password, and compile the code. It would also be good if there was space for a short description and a link to the relevant website so that users can easily search for programs. Naturally, the maintainers for the project would be expected to keep the details up to date. THe obvious hosts for such a site would be the FSF or (preferably) the OSI.
If they're only paying GBP20 per case, that must be pretty poor wine. Given that wine in Australia is cheaper than in the UK, and the wines available from anywhere for that price even here are only acceptable after you've already drunk a whole bottle of something else, I would imagine he would be better off with cleaning fluid.
You mean like Apple did with OS X, which is built on one of the BSDs (I think FreeBSD), with a load of backwards-compatibility additions? That took them years, but it looks like Apple are trying to make future versions of Mac OS basically a proprietary Unix
If you use a driver's licence number or something similar, then if the police recover it, they can tell who it belongs to, and you have a better chance of getting it back. it also makes it slightly harder to sell locally.
Only by the Civil Service style guide: some newspapers had already accepted the US definition, while others continued with the old, the Oxford Paperback Dictionary of 1983 defines billion as 1) a million million and 2) 1000 million, with a note to the respect that the latter is an Americanism. Plenty of people still use the British definition of billion, or use SI prefixes as a suffix to the number, to avoid ambiguity.
Actually, there is an older name, the Milliard, which is roughly the same as a German word, for 1000 million (10^9). This used to be used commonly until the inter-war era. There is also billiard, for 1000 billion (10^15), but since this value is far less used so the term naturally was always somewhat uncommon. Sources: Realm of Numbers by Isaac Asimov, and a Victorian dictionary in my college's library which has unfortunately become too damaged to read the title.
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Given how many office/university buildings have little yellow stickers on them (like asbestos ones) marking wall as firewalls, I agree. +2 or +3 would be about right..
You are in a hot air balloon...
Remember that the dust is pure silicon, which can be reclaimed and recast, without needing to be refined again. This cuts some (but not all) of the waste.
There are Java compilers for creating Win32 binaries, although you would need to use JNI wrappers to use windows GUIs rather than AWT or Swing.
The GCJ (GNU compiler for Java) includes both a bytecode and binary compiler, and work with the GDB, although it only supports up to Java 1.4 (see http://gcc.gnu.org/java/)
That has been reported in England with roofing slates. The thief simply drives up with a van painted as a roofing contractor, sets up a ladder and some scaffolding, and removes the tiles (this was some years ago, when health and safety regulations were less strict). When a home owner caught them, they simply presented fake documents for the house net door, put up a tarpaulin, and drove off.
People have also stolen the granite setts of of public roads with a digger, lorry, and a few cones.
Furthermore, it is a text-based format, making it future proof, since the text can always be recovered. Also, Word Pad can edit the text in RTF tables, although it cannot add cells or create tables.
There should be two grades of citizenship, adult and child. Anyone who becomes a citizen automatically (born in the USA, parents are citizens, etc.) should receive a child citizenship, which gives permanent residency, entitlement to a passport and the like. Then, when turning 18, people could choose to take the naturalisation test and become full citizens, with voting rights. This would help ensure that people are able to understand at least the basics of the constitution and legal system. It also rectifies the ridiculous situation that occurs in Australia, where in one school I know of, most of the year 11 (16-17 y.o.) students could not answer more than one or two of the leaked test questions (all of these students were Australian citizens, and are now eligible to vote), suggesting that newly naturalised migrants are better suited to participate in the political process than natural-born citizens. This was a mainstream class in a fee-paying school in a state capital.
The landlord would still be forbidden from enforcing this by the 1996 law.
See http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/29/0056219
for more nanotechnology computer components: this time memory.
Of course, magnetic disks are still the best things we have for the hard-drive niche, at least for the next few years, given that only RAM + batteries or flash memory really compete, and both are more expensive, and flash has a much more limited life (counting writes), making it very bad for things like swap partitions or temp files. In the more distant future, I am sure something will replace HDDs, just like RAM chips replaced magnetic drums and HDDs replaced cards and paper tape, but they will be here for some time yet.
His version was a pretty close match for the second radio series, which was written before the books.
Australian politicians in both the cabinet and shadow cabinet, at both federal and state levels) have government chauffeur-driven cars, so they would not have to pay personally anyway (of course there could be a political cost, but it would be relatively small outside the election season). I don't know if this is the case in other countries, but I would assume so.
Of course, later there was a real Kremvax: see http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/K/kremvax.html for the story.
TeXaide uses an almost identical menu system to MathType and is gratis. there are WYSIWIG LaTeX environments, but given that you can do most reports using the templates which came with your distro and a few commands (enumerate, list, and description environments for lists, figure, and table, the sectioning commands (which are very intuitive), and a few others). Jabref + BibTeX handles bibliographies with far less effort than word needs, and needs no knowledge of whatever format you are required to use.
When I first used LaTeX, it was working through TeXnic Center, and I had at that time no no programming experience, and yet I was able to produce a scientific report with a lot of equations, tables [*], and figures with less effort than if I had used word. It does not take long to learn the commonly used commands. The TeXnic Center help is very good, since it includes most of the major packages, and links to CTAN.
* To be honest, tables are a PITA if you need to do anything fancy.
Bester would be a better president than several of the candidates, or Bush: at least he is a stylish slimy toad who ddoesn't care that normal people hate him and everything about him. And he has such good one-liners
While UTF8 raw text and ODF are both sensible formats, CSV seems like a poor choice for data owing to its horrible escaping conventions and subtly inconsistent implementations. Surely a better format would be a pipe separated DSV, which is a much cleaner format.
Using a second stick is not beyond the wit of man. The problem that the logs may show you copying files to your stick, but then they would also most likely show you using stenography in that case as well.
If you embed the fonts in a DOCX, within the EULA, and send the document to someone else, then if they have some program capable of extracting embedded fonts from OOX, neither person would have broken the licence, unless M$ can prove that the publisher intended for the receiver to pirate the fonts.
>I agree the numeral choice is not just dumb. It is playing straight into the hands of phishers of all sorts.
Not especially, since the address bar and status line in almost every browser I have used have been set to either a sans serif or typewriter font, not the Roman face (except for some Fx themes, but those who can be bothered to change their theme would also be almost certain to have other phishing protection). If you are thinking of forged email return addresses, then there is already I/l, 1/l, vv/w and plenty of others, and banks and the government have for years (at least where I am) been warning users about those combinations, so one more is hardly "playing straight into the hands of phishers"
It is safer to write something on it to make the paper invalid, like ticking all the boxes, or adding CmdrTaco/Julius Caesar/Jesus/yourself to the paper and marking that, preventing your paper being used for one of the candidates.
However, as he explained in the forward to one of his collections (I forget which), the Three Laws are more a set of design principles, which he abstracted from looking at a knife: a tool must be safe to use; it must do its job, whilst remaining safe; and it must not break unless that is needed to do its job or remain safe. Whist they cannot be literally applied, common sense requires the informal use of the Three Laws in any tool.
What is needed is some sort of CTAN equivalent, with links to the repositories for GNOME, KDE, command-line only, and any other versions of software, with links to both the dev and stable versions, all in a machine-readable format, so that it is trivial to write a GUI to check out the relevant source code (with the stable version as default), prompt for a location and the root password, and compile the code. It would also be good if there was space for a short description and a link to the relevant website so that users can easily search for programs. Naturally, the maintainers for the project would be expected to keep the details up to date. THe obvious hosts for such a site would be the FSF or (preferably) the OSI.
If they're only paying GBP20 per case, that must be pretty poor wine. Given that wine in Australia is cheaper than in the UK, and the wines available from anywhere for that price even here are only acceptable after you've already drunk a whole bottle of something else, I would imagine he would be better off with cleaning fluid.
You mean like Apple did with OS X, which is built on one of the BSDs (I think FreeBSD), with a load of backwards-compatibility additions? That took them years, but it looks like Apple are trying to make future versions of Mac OS basically a proprietary Unix
If you use a driver's licence number or something similar, then if the police recover it, they can tell who it belongs to, and you have a better chance of getting it back. it also makes it slightly harder to sell locally.
Only by the Civil Service style guide: some newspapers had already accepted the US definition, while others continued with the old, the Oxford Paperback Dictionary of 1983 defines billion as 1) a million million and 2) 1000 million, with a note to the respect that the latter is an Americanism. Plenty of people still use the British definition of billion, or use SI prefixes as a suffix to the number, to avoid ambiguity.
Actually, there is an older name, the Milliard, which is roughly the same as a German word, for 1000 million (10^9). This used to be used commonly until the inter-war era. There is also billiard, for 1000 billion (10^15), but since this value is far less used so the term naturally was always somewhat uncommon.
Sources: Realm of Numbers by Isaac Asimov, and a Victorian dictionary in my college's library which has unfortunately become too damaged to read the title.