In fact in the UK if you happen to run a paedophile ring or have evidence of your ritual cannibalism club on your computer it's far better to withold the key (max 2 years sentence) than get sent down for murder (max. life sentence).
Preferably with its own power source and unlimited food supplies, 'cos I aint ever going to leave it...
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I'm a big fan of Blakes 7 but the last thing I'd describe it as having 'intelligent scripts and a dynamic variety of characters'... It was pure scifi fun - didn't take itself too seriously. It got a bit crappy when blake was dead and they lost the liberator (it became 'Avons 5' but they never changed the title).. the early stuff was top notch though. Orac was probably half the special effects budget on his own:)
Damn cheap to make, too. Ingredients: 1 Slate quarry, 1 Nuclear Power station, half a tonne of cardboard and a few storylines flexible enough to be translated to different planets/people.
I'm not convinced LCDs are worth the benefit... we just got some huge Dell LCD screens (2 each per machine... these are not cheap puppies). The screens look like crap - in fact I've already asked if I can keep my CRT because even looking at the LCD for a few minutes made my eyes hurt (and I'm not even going to *describe* the horror when someone turned cleartype on - I had to look away from the screen because I couldn't even focus on it).
Call them 'badly adjusted' if you like, but these are top of the range LCDs from a quality manufacturer, running at their native resolution. Since LCDs currently cost more than double the equivalent CRT price I doubt home users will start using them for some years yet.
nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
Haven't they already deleted that bit? I mean they're currently holding a bunch of people without access to representation and just about to execute half of them without trial....
We've now learned that Zion itself is part of the Matrix, which means that the Zion computer telling the story is also a manifestation of the computer controlling the Matrix.
Kinda explains why the story is so biased against the humans, too:)
(Personally I reckon we'll discover that there *was* no war and the humans built it all themselves because AR is so 'cool', but forgot they were in it).
If they buy a license from SCO they're also in breach of license with the rest of the code in the kernel - by acknowledging there is non-redistributable code in the kernel they simply invalidate their own right to use the rest of the kernel with is under the GPL.
I don't think most companies would be that stupid... the best thing to do is to wait for the court case and carry on under the assumption that there's no change, until SCO prove (or not) their case.
Not necessarily... With a sufficiently good case many lawyers will work for free, and with the 'loser pays' rules in the UK it's quite feasable (eg. the two people who took McDonalds to court and won weren't particularly well off.. a postman and a gardner).
Both slander and libel involve deliberately making false statements which damage someone's reputation. Slander cases generally fail because it's relatively easy to prove that you believed what you were saying at the time you said it.
Most libel cases fail, too, unless you've got pots of money to prove your case (mostly politicians vs newspapers).
DVD-RW is dying because it's getting increasingly hard to buy the hardware.... Us geeks see a different side to things, because we know where to get the stuff cheap (I can get media for 75p for -R and 99p for +R, but retail is about £3.50 for both formats).
Joe punter walks into PC World (UK only I think - mostly they sell expensive crap but their stores are huge and their adverts are *eveywhere*). They don't stock -RW drives. Their -RW media is more expensive than their +RW media... what do you think people are going to buy?
Even the local independent has stopped selling -RW drives now.. I think +RW has reached critical mass and it's not worth their while supporting the minority format.
I remember being asked to look at a PC where the person had paid for a retail Win Me, and it didn't work. The *only* disks the manufacturer supplied were Win95 (release 1!) 'recovery' disks that wiped the entire HD - including this guys entire college coursework, which he'd managed to lose by following the instructions - 'in case of problems insert CD and reboot'... how was he to know that it meant 'to wipe Hard drive and lose all your work, and by the way good look with Windows 2000 sucker!, insert CD'.
Eventually he had to get his money back on the Win Me, because the machine used proprietary hardware that had no publicly available drivers for it.... for all I know it's still there running Win95, and will be until the day it's thrown away.
Smart pointers are relatively trivial to implement using templates, and don't slow things down much (small overhead as the pointer struct is 8 bytes + a trivial copy constructor every time you pass it). You only need a GC to cope with things like loops (a points to b which contains a pointer back to a, which means their reference counts will never be zero). If your careful you can get away without one at all.
I don't think it impacts memory footprint much... if you remember to set pointers to null when you've finished with them they'll free at roughly the same places as if you did it manually... with the advantage they won't leak if you forget.
I knew one guy who took a hacksaw to the card to 'cut off the extra bit because it was the wrong size', then tried to get a refund when it didn't work.
I never found out if the shop have him one (once they'd stopped laughing).
I've been through sendmail myself and it jumps around a bit but isn't too bad (once you've got your head around it it's relatively understandable). Some of the commercial code I've worked with looks like an explosion in a code factory...
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In fact in the UK if you happen to run a paedophile ring or have evidence of your ritual cannibalism club on your computer it's far better to withold the key (max 2 years sentence) than get sent down for murder (max. life sentence).
The law's funny like that...
I want a holodeck.
Preferably with its own power source and unlimited food supplies, 'cos I aint ever going to leave it...
I'm a big fan of Blakes 7 but the last thing I'd describe it as having 'intelligent scripts and a dynamic variety of characters'... It was pure scifi fun - didn't take itself too seriously. It got a bit crappy when blake was dead and they lost the liberator (it became 'Avons 5' but they never changed the title).. the early stuff was top notch though. Orac was probably half the special effects budget on his own :)
Damn cheap to make, too. Ingredients: 1 Slate quarry, 1 Nuclear Power station, half a tonne of cardboard and a few storylines flexible enough to be translated to different planets/people.
I'm not convinced LCDs are worth the benefit... we just got some huge Dell LCD screens (2 each per machine... these are not cheap puppies). The screens look like crap - in fact I've already asked if I can keep my CRT because even looking at the LCD for a few minutes made my eyes hurt (and I'm not even going to *describe* the horror when someone turned cleartype on - I had to look away from the screen because I couldn't even focus on it).
Call them 'badly adjusted' if you like, but these are top of the range LCDs from a quality manufacturer, running at their native resolution. Since LCDs currently cost more than double the equivalent CRT price I doubt home users will start using them for some years yet.
nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
Haven't they already deleted that bit? I mean they're currently holding a bunch of people without access to representation and just about to execute half of them without trial....
MS-DOS hasn't had an exploit for, umm.... years!
:)
Doesn't mean it's secure though
OT, but how do you know that's accurate?
:)
We've now learned that Zion itself is part of the Matrix, which means that the Zion computer telling the story is also a manifestation of the computer controlling the Matrix.
Kinda explains why the story is so biased against the humans, too
(Personally I reckon we'll discover that there *was* no war and the humans built it all themselves because AR is so 'cool', but forgot they were in it).
If they buy a license from SCO they're also in breach of license with the rest of the code in the kernel - by acknowledging there is non-redistributable code in the kernel they simply invalidate their own right to use the rest of the kernel with is under the GPL.
I don't think most companies would be that stupid... the best thing to do is to wait for the court case and carry on under the assumption that there's no change, until SCO prove (or not) their case.
Not necessarily... With a sufficiently good case many lawyers will work for free, and with the 'loser pays' rules in the UK it's quite feasable (eg. the two people who took McDonalds to court and won weren't particularly well off.. a postman and a gardner).
Both slander and libel involve deliberately making false statements which damage someone's reputation. Slander cases generally fail because it's relatively easy to prove that you believed what you were saying at the time you said it.
Most libel cases fail, too, unless you've got pots of money to prove your case (mostly politicians vs newspapers).
If XP has been up for 27 days without a reboot you've probably already been hacked :)
Use Windows Update... you know it makes sense.
bzzt try again. They're chicken *mc*nuggets.
DVD-RW is dying because it's getting increasingly hard to buy the hardware.... Us geeks see a different side to things, because we know where to get the stuff cheap (I can get media for 75p for -R and 99p for +R, but retail is about £3.50 for both formats).
Joe punter walks into PC World (UK only I think - mostly they sell expensive crap but their stores are huge and their adverts are *eveywhere*). They don't stock -RW drives. Their -RW media is more expensive than their +RW media... what do you think people are going to buy?
Even the local independent has stopped selling -RW drives now.. I think +RW has reached critical mass and it's not worth their while supporting the minority format.
Not at all.
I remember being asked to look at a PC where the person had paid for a retail Win Me, and it didn't work. The *only* disks the manufacturer supplied were Win95 (release 1!) 'recovery' disks that wiped the entire HD - including this guys entire college coursework, which he'd managed to lose by following the instructions - 'in case of problems insert CD and reboot'... how was he to know that it meant 'to wipe Hard drive and lose all your work, and by the way good look with Windows 2000 sucker!, insert CD'.
Eventually he had to get his money back on the Win Me, because the machine used proprietary hardware that had no publicly available drivers for it.... for all I know it's still there running Win95, and will be until the day it's thrown away.
I remember a reference to a full adder (well, some kind of snake anyway) but not a half one... did adam attack it with an axe or somethng?
Smart pointers are relatively trivial to implement using templates, and don't slow things down much (small overhead as the pointer struct is 8 bytes + a trivial copy constructor every time you pass it). You only need a GC to cope with things like loops (a points to b which contains a pointer back to a, which means their reference counts will never be zero). If your careful you can get away without one at all.
I don't think it impacts memory footprint much... if you remember to set pointers to null when you've finished with them they'll free at roughly the same places as if you did it manually... with the advantage they won't leak if you forget.
B actually existed... it was the language that predated C.
I've no idea if there was an A though.
Oh, but amazons are girls, not guys.
Surely there must be a roughly equal amount of amazon boys as well as girls, otherwise the species would die out.
In this country the location of the telephone exchanges is apparently classified...
:)
If you ask the telco though they'll provide you with an up to date list inc. coordinates so you can target your missiles correctly
I knew one guy who took a hacksaw to the card to 'cut off the extra bit because it was the wrong size', then tried to get a refund when it didn't work.
I never found out if the shop have him one (once they'd stopped laughing).
I knew an IT teacher that did the same thing...
scared the crap out of me thinking what his pupils were learning.
The start menu *is* jargon!
Newbie: "How do you shut this thing down?"
Me: "You click 'start'"
Newbie: "Err....."
I've been through sendmail myself and it jumps around a bit but isn't too bad (once you've got your head around it it's relatively understandable). Some of the commercial code I've worked with looks like an explosion in a code factory...
Especially since it's been in KDE since v3 :)
Old news... yawn.
Me too.. Never heard of it.
The only references I can find on Google say it's a US phenomenon, not UK (there's a good explanation of it on alt.culture.us.1970s).