Cancer is a disease of (primarily) old age. Cancer rates increase when life expectancy increases. More people are living long enough to get cancer. Eating a healthy diet will result in increased rates of cancer.
I've often wondered about the quality of 802.11 hardware. I'm not used to anyone using microwave and cheap in the same sentence. All of the commercial S-band radios that I've worked with are very expensive gear. What corners are they cutting in the consumer-grade hardware?
I've seen similar things happen at several places that I've worked at. A computer or other piece of equipment needs to be excessed. It gets stripped for desirable parts and then it gets loaded up with all the broken and obsolete parts that are sitting around the shop/office. The property office insists that the PC have a video card, hard disk, etc. They didn't say that they had to work or be the original parts.
The problem with ITMS, and some other vendors, is regional distribution agreements. I may have a web store that sells widgets, but the manufacturer of the widgets may only allow me to sell widgets to customers in my country or region. The manufacturer may have exclusive distribution agreements with companies in other parts of the world.
As opposed to the US government and related bodies who shot dead 4 students at Kent State University for exercising their constitutional right to protest, who joined the 100 students dead by National Guard hands by 1972 for anti vietnam protests.
Bullshit. The Kent State students were not exercising their right to peacefully protest, many of them had engaged in violent acts such as arson, looting and throwing rocks. The National Guard troops were poorly trained, poorly led and overreacted. See THE MAY 4 SHOOTINGS AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: THE SEARCH
FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY.
100 students dead at the hands of the National Guard? That's pure fabrication.
As opposed to the US government and related bodies who arrested nearly 4,000 students for exercising their constitutional right to protest against the vietnam war?
Most of them were arrested for criminal acts related to the protests, not for protesting the war. Millions of Americans peacefully protested the war and were neither shot nor arrested.
Where do you get your "facts"? From your cell's political officer?
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Most people want a computer that is expandable, and can accomodate things internally (or at least have the option to).
Are you sure about that? Years ago, I read a study that said that most people never open their PCs, from purchase to disposal. They treat it as an appliance. I know people like that, they don't want to know what's inside the magic box and they don't care.
Some people have already had software problems due to the changes in the allowable digits for area codes and telephone numbers. Area codes used to always have 0 or 1 for the second digit. I've seen "clever" code that stored an area code in an 8-bit byte by swapping the first two digits and converting it to an integer.
The rail systems received huge subsidies during their construction. They also enjoyed regulated rates for many years.
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eFax's software may have met its design specifications, but I would argue that the specifications were not well thought out.
Back in the Stone Age, when I ran batch jobs on mainframes, it was common feature of the operating system to automatically abort any jobs that exceeded their resource limits. The resources were things like CPU time, memory usage, number of pages printed. There were default values for the limits and the limits could be modified by Job Control Language directives included at the beginning of the job. The default values were large enough for most jobs, but small enough to quickly kill jobs that were malfunctioning due to bugs or bad input data. This was important because usage of the mainframe's resources was billed back to the user. It prevented a runaway job from wiping out an individual's or department's budget for computer use. Without these limits, one run of a buggy program could exhaust a student's entire allocation of computer usage for a semester.
The point is that people make mistakes, and these mistakes are often predictable. Designing the system to limit the damage caused by a mistake is just good engineering.
At my last job, I was a salaried exempt employee. That's what they told me. I didn't get paid for overtime. Fair enough, I'm on a salary. What pissed me off was that if I worked less than 8 hours, my pay was reduced accordingly, as if I was paid an hourly wage. They wanted it both ways.
My Uncle thought it was entertaining when people thought he was a "dumb redneck". He had a law degree, realtor's license, taught courses at the university, ran his own farm, owned a bunch of real estate, and always seemed to have several successful part-time businesses in operation. He may have looked like a redneck, but he was one of the smartest businessmen that I've ever known.
The British computer (Colossus) was designed to attack the German fish (teleprinter) codes, not the Enigma. The British and Americans built large numbers of special purpose electro-mechanical machines (AKA bombes) to attack Enigma. NCR built the American version of the bombe.
The problem is that, in the absence of law, the company has the market power to dictate the terms of the contract, to the detriment of the customer. Many companies will abuse this power, and it often becomes "standard industry practice". That's why there are laws about consumer credit, installment loans, warranties, rental housing, etc.
The problem is that in large buildings, they usually are fixated on the costs of lighting the building. That means that they buy the cheapest cool white bulbs, no matter how hideous they are, or how depressing they are to the staff. Your chances of getting better bulbs installed are somewhere between slim and nonexistent.
The problem is that every time the FCC issues new rules that affect large corporate interests, whether they're good or bad rules, the corporations immediately go to the federal courts in an attempt to stall or overturn the rules that they don't like. This can take years, even if the FCC prevails.
How would you like to live in a world where everyone had a staff of lawyers on retainer, and insisted on litigating every little problem in their life?
It wasn't Microsoft's fault, although they could have picked another character other than the backslash.
Windows was descended from MS-DOS which was a clone of CP/M which was inspired by some old DEC operating systems that reserved the forward slash for command-line options.
Years were commonly stored as text, BCD and packed BCD. What they weren't commonly stored as were 16-bit or 32-bit integers. The first two digits, sometimes three digits, were implied. DEC used three bits for the year in some of their early operating systems.
Text and BCD formats were popular because they were efficient. Binary (integer) formats for date and time required complex conversions for I/O. There was no such thing as the microprocessor. Multiplication and division were usually very slow operations. Many computers implemented them in software, not hardware. The hardware for them was often an expensive option, not a standard part of the CPU. BCD could be converted to/from your favorite character code with simple hardwired logic.
...getting weak after age 30 doesn't sound like a big deal to me because humans' reproductive peak occurs well below that age.
It could be a liability if children with the trait do not have living grandparents to help raise them because of premature death. There would also be economic consequences to the larger social group due to the reduced number of productive adults.
It doesn't matter how cool or technically advanced a cell phone is, the wireless carriers in the United States have a chokehold on the market. They want to force their subscribers to buy their phones only from the carrier's limited list of "approved" phones. This gives the carrier's marketing drones vast power over what phones and features are available. You don't buy a phone with the features that you want, you buy a phone that may have been crippled so that it fits in with the carrier's marketing strategy.
The FCC needs to require all cellular carriers to activate any phone that meets the technical standards for their network.
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That might be a violation of state/local law. The customer may have a right to return an item, whether or not they filed for a rebate.
Cancer is a disease of (primarily) old age. Cancer rates increase when life expectancy increases. More people are living long enough to get cancer. Eating a healthy diet will result in increased rates of cancer.
I've often wondered about the quality of 802.11 hardware. I'm not used to anyone using microwave and cheap in the same sentence. All of the commercial S-band radios that I've worked with are very expensive gear. What corners are they cutting in the consumer-grade hardware?
Because of the Illuminati... We have companies like Microsoft who are holding back an entire industry.
Because of the Illuminati... We are at war in Iraq.
Because of the Illuminati... Because of the Illuminati... Because of the Illuminati...
Are you getting the pattern here? People who support OSS generally are against the Illuminati.
Open source software preserves our freedoms, nobody can take our Linux away from us.
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I've seen similar things happen at several places that I've worked at. A computer or other piece of equipment needs to be excessed. It gets stripped for desirable parts and then it gets loaded up with all the broken and obsolete parts that are sitting around the shop/office. The property office insists that the PC have a video card, hard disk, etc. They didn't say that they had to work or be the original parts.
A good cryptographer does not give out free clues.
The problem with ITMS, and some other vendors, is regional distribution agreements. I may have a web store that sells widgets, but the manufacturer of the widgets may only allow me to sell widgets to customers in my country or region. The manufacturer may have exclusive distribution agreements with companies in other parts of the world.
Bullshit. The Kent State students were not exercising their right to peacefully protest, many of them had engaged in violent acts such as arson, looting and throwing rocks. The National Guard troops were poorly trained, poorly led and overreacted. See THE MAY 4 SHOOTINGS AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: THE SEARCH FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY. 100 students dead at the hands of the National Guard? That's pure fabrication.
As opposed to the US government and related bodies who arrested nearly 4,000 students for exercising their constitutional right to protest against the vietnam war?
Most of them were arrested for criminal acts related to the protests, not for protesting the war. Millions of Americans peacefully protested the war and were neither shot nor arrested.
Where do you get your "facts"? From your cell's political officer?
Are you sure about that? Years ago, I read a study that said that most people never open their PCs, from purchase to disposal. They treat it as an appliance. I know people like that, they don't want to know what's inside the magic box and they don't care.
Some people have already had software problems due to the changes in the allowable digits for area codes and telephone numbers. Area codes used to always have 0 or 1 for the second digit. I've seen "clever" code that stored an area code in an 8-bit byte by swapping the first two digits and converting it to an integer.
The rail systems received huge subsidies during their construction. They also enjoyed regulated rates for many years.
Back in the Stone Age, when I ran batch jobs on mainframes, it was common feature of the operating system to automatically abort any jobs that exceeded their resource limits. The resources were things like CPU time, memory usage, number of pages printed. There were default values for the limits and the limits could be modified by Job Control Language directives included at the beginning of the job. The default values were large enough for most jobs, but small enough to quickly kill jobs that were malfunctioning due to bugs or bad input data. This was important because usage of the mainframe's resources was billed back to the user. It prevented a runaway job from wiping out an individual's or department's budget for computer use. Without these limits, one run of a buggy program could exhaust a student's entire allocation of computer usage for a semester.
The point is that people make mistakes, and these mistakes are often predictable. Designing the system to limit the damage caused by a mistake is just good engineering.
At my last job, I was a salaried exempt employee. That's what they told me. I didn't get paid for overtime. Fair enough, I'm on a salary. What pissed me off was that if I worked less than 8 hours, my pay was reduced accordingly, as if I was paid an hourly wage. They wanted it both ways.
They are not just Gypsies, they appear to be a native social group that is unique to the UK and Ireland. See wiki.
My Uncle thought it was entertaining when people thought he was a "dumb redneck". He had a law degree, realtor's license, taught courses at the university, ran his own farm, owned a bunch of real estate, and always seemed to have several successful part-time businesses in operation. He may have looked like a redneck, but he was one of the smartest businessmen that I've ever known.
Fur farms are often targetted for attacks.
In most places, "travellers" would quickly end up in jail for criminal trespass. Any dogs that attack livestock would be shot.
Yes, we know you hate X, where X is the trendy villain du jour. We don't care. Go away.
Thank you.
The British computer (Colossus) was designed to attack the German fish (teleprinter) codes, not the Enigma. The British and Americans built large numbers of special purpose electro-mechanical machines (AKA bombes) to attack Enigma. NCR built the American version of the bombe.
The problem is that, in the absence of law, the company has the market power to dictate the terms of the contract, to the detriment of the customer. Many companies will abuse this power, and it often becomes "standard industry practice". That's why there are laws about consumer credit, installment loans, warranties, rental housing, etc.
The problem is that in large buildings, they usually are fixated on the costs of lighting the building. That means that they buy the cheapest cool white bulbs, no matter how hideous they are, or how depressing they are to the staff. Your chances of getting better bulbs installed are somewhere between slim and nonexistent.
How would you like to live in a world where everyone had a staff of lawyers on retainer, and insisted on litigating every little problem in their life?
Windows was descended from MS-DOS which was a clone of CP/M which was inspired by some old DEC operating systems that reserved the forward slash for command-line options.
Text and BCD formats were popular because they were efficient. Binary (integer) formats for date and time required complex conversions for I/O. There was no such thing as the microprocessor. Multiplication and division were usually very slow operations. Many computers implemented them in software, not hardware. The hardware for them was often an expensive option, not a standard part of the CPU. BCD could be converted to/from your favorite character code with simple hardwired logic.
It could be a liability if children with the trait do not have living grandparents to help raise them because of premature death. There would also be economic consequences to the larger social group due to the reduced number of productive adults.
The FCC needs to require all cellular carriers to activate any phone that meets the technical standards for their network.