Blessed are the days when the bad and nasty foreign manufacturers had an import quota of 6000 cars per class per year per manufacturer.
Blessed are the days when steel had an import duty of 30+%
Blessed are the days when... We can continue...
One minor problem though, the day these days return there will be the same measures everywhere else around the globe so no effing container is going out anywhere. Example - the recent spat over steel tariffs between US and EU.
It will be about the time when the idiots waving Sybase, Oracle, MSFT SQL and DB2 will learn that none of them by itself can handle a slashdot effect (or a midsize election). Jokes aside, but for the rates of connections experienced in such applications you must:
Cache and prepare in advance stuff for any dynamic pages that must not be updated in real time.
Do all non-personalized dynamic pages from an embedded NON-SQL source which multiplexes data onto an SQL connection in the backend to avoid descriptor wastage.
Require login for any real time info and limit the number of simultaneous users.
It is plain and simple. In cases like this you get a rate of connections that exceeds the capacity of any database even if it is a wizzbang ultrashaft superduper ACID wet dream Oracle/Sybase/DB2/MSFT/Informix cluster.
It is not a problem that they are using MySQL. In fact it may be the right tool for the job. The problem is that they are using it incorrectly. They are trying to do a simple LAMP where you have to do proper web programming.
Not in the UK. Check were BLiar starts his election campaigns:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/07/a_vote_for _labour/
Read the last paragraph (rest is usual el-Reg banter).
Really... You got to be joking. You definitely forgot the nasoanal intercourse performed by The BLiar before all elections since coming to power. He does it in a well known building by the railway near Reading. I bet that he will do it this time as well.
You will need to nuke most of the English speaking world this way. There are no news here - Tata and Reliance which cover 80% of the outsourcing market to India have long set up shop in UK, Canada and Australia. I have had calls from headhunters working for Tata pestering me to work for them in the UK as far back as 2 years ago. They also continue to buy companies in key IT and telecoms area in these countries. Usually post chapter 11 so it is on the cheap. They can present any outsourcing deal as a deal between local companies if they want to. They do not do it for the only reason that the management types who outsource want to outsource to Indians. They do not want to outsource to another UK or Australian company as this is not fashionable. What they do not realise (but Tata and Reliance know very well) is that someone has to stay locally and compile requirements, do high level design, support and professional services. So they are actively looking for people to fill these positions. It is only a matter of time until they use the FTAs + Commonwealth agreements to get into the US with an outsourcing agreement that goes to Canada, but in fact is done in India.
That is besides the fact that not a lot of the scams are run from Nigeria. At one point it was mostly dutch cable networks. After an unsuccessful prosecution attempt about a year ago the police there started to extradit them on the spot. As a result they moved to Tiscali network in the UK where they thrive and florish. In either case it is not Nigeria.
Imagine a Siamese with a pleasant disposition! Maybe they could splice in some dog genes to get a cat that wags it's tail and plays fetch.
Most male ones are with pleasant disposition. In fact they are more doglike in their behaviour if you do _not_ neuter them. You can train them to fetch and you can train them to attack on command. One exemption - never ever try to walk between a Siamese male cat and the subject of its advances. You will need some stitches.
It is the females and the neutered ones that give Siamese their vicious reputation. I am speaking as an ex owner here. It now lives with my mom and attacks anyone who will enter the apartment. Nearly as effective as a guard dog.
On the subject of allergies - my observation is that they are roughly proportional to the use of carpets in homes. The two countries with highest allergy rates are UK and US. These are the countries where carpet is the standard floor covering. As a comparison Southern Europe where the standard covering is mosaic (if you have more money wood or marble) has asthma and allergy rates which are 10 times less.
I would disgree with you. They concentrate on two main selling points:
Peripheral connectivity. Average EPIA board - 6 to 8 USBs at least 2 of which are high speed, At least 1 Firewire, usually 2 IDEs (V series being the only exemption), serials, IR, sound, LAN, video (other then VGA) out and IN, hardware assisted MPEG encode/decode. Very few other motherboards come even close. The ones that do are way off in terms of form factor, price and noise level.
Entertainment related features. Accelerated MPEG encode/decode and encryption/decryption. Very high quality audio. In fact so far it has been only audio subsystem on a PC that I have liked. Due to the fact that there are no noisy (in the electrical sense) high powered components on the board you get extremely high sound quality and nearly 0 background noise.
If you want to use your PC as an entertainment center with some rudimentary typewriter/spreadsheet/picture/loads of crap on USB functionality this is all you need. And it does a brilliant job at it.
Minor objection. Based on the only time when I have tried using it, they had a considerable proportion of vendors with outdated catalogues that claimed to sell an item which none of them in fact had (BP11 and BP51 Sony batteries).
After baiting me to supply my details for a quotation request every single one of the arseholes went along to sell them to SPAMMers and spammed me as well with no removal option (CANSPAM does not apply to non-US cittizens ya know). The experience was sufficient for me to stay away from the service ever since.
Thanks, but I'd rather deal with people whose catalogue reflects what they can deliver. No matter are they large or small. And who take VISA or MC.
Complete and utter bullshit. One of the biggest IBM research centers is in the german speaking bit of Switherland. Even as far back as 1995 and the OS2 Warp release development work was done in places like Bulgaria, Russia, Chech republic. Another large development center which deals with non-right-to-left writing direction languages is Egypt. None of these are natively english speaking. In fact IBM has been closing research facilities in English speaking countries (England) in favour of non-english speaking countries for more then 10 years.
You have got the wroing impression because IBM is a company that it is extremely strict on requiring every employee to know and use English for internal correspondence and documentation. But it is not an US company at all. In fact Sun is considerably more US. To be more exact it is a combination of Californian Silicon Valley "we are better then everyone" with typical college dropout vindictiveness. DNS, paying SCO, kicking Red Hat under the table, so on so fourth. To summarize - Sun is typical international corporation - it is present around the world, with nearly all directors and administrative personnel of any noticeable influence being American. IBM is and has been trully global for a very long time. At least as far back as the age of typewriters (and the Nazi affair).
Well... The results themselves are the best joke as they have neither 2003, nor 1998. In fact the only cert they hold is 1995 so they do not have a product that is legally entitled to be called Unix(R) according to the current specification and Open Group requirements (2003 is next spec, 1998 is current, 1995 is obsolete).
There is a long industry tradition here. For example most RSA reference code has interesting "omissions". Classic example is MD4 for which the reference implementation does not work on 64 bit and big endian and has a number of code paths that are effectively if (1) {} without the else. That is besides lack of error checking and a few paths with NULL derefs in them. At the same time they were shipping software which had the MD4 transform, but was perfectly on Solaris (big endian) and Tru64 (big endian and 64 bit).
There are a few others though none of them so spread around as RSA.
If you read grok it becomes reasonably clear. It is SVR4 and AIX5L. SCO may have a reason to ask for it if they complained about it. I agree with IBM on this one - they have not. -ERRCOMPLAINAGAIN
Which fscking product did such abomination ship in on Power??? Unix System V release 3? Aix 3.x is BSD derived with some System V functionality, but it ain't SVR3. Aix 4.x is SVR4 if not later.
If it shipped (I do not see it anywhere on the tree http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html ) it was at least 5 years pre-project-Monterey. It is simply not relevant to any Monterey contract dispute as it was under the jurisdiction of the contract between ATT and IBM.
There is something fishy here so I guess it is time to read grocklaw...
Let's suppose the OS vendor is sponsoring it as a locking method for the rest of the world. CE is nearly pointless to pirate, it can also be made to run on custom hardware that does not have BIOS and legacy booting procedure (I bet this one does not) and you can make sure that it runs only non-pirated apps by shipping DRM at the hardware level. While AMD has been courting linux it has also been more then happy to be used as shock troops by one well known Redmond company. The testimony of AMD chairman to the MSFT antitrust trial is a prime example. There are others.
Personally I expect Gates foundation or even MSFT itself sponsors these further down to under 100 quid for schools and local government in the 3rd world.
1. I am suggesting exactly this. 2. I have seen such 3 locks cleanly picked in Russia on a casual basis. That was on high level lock sets in Russia where the arrangement is usually - one normal lock and two locks that have to be turned simultaneously to unlock the door (you cannot open them in sequence). 3. During the mid-90es I used to work for 2 years in one office block with a car alarm company in Bulgaria. Only a small fraction of their income was from installing alarms. Most was from other stuff and trust me I have seen first hand the qualification of people interested in the other stuff. 4. The funniest case I remember was from around 1995 when one jerk who lived on the same street brought a nearly new Honda Prelude from Germany. Before exporting it he had the most advanced car alarm available put on it. So he kept bragging in the local bar that the car is unstealable and the alarm is uncircumventable. A few practical jokers from the neighbourhood got pissed of and stole the _alarm_ correctly rewiring the car back to its pristine pre-alarm state. The jerk did not brag any more.
You seriously have no idea about the technological level of a thief in some countries. Just have a look at a Finnish or Russian lock and the number of locks on a door.. Same for alarms in ex-eastern Europe versus UK/US. So on, so fourth.
UK you cannot see them because of their standard desk layout which hides the entire desk surface from view. Spain (after Madrid). They are quite obvious putting it through and the reader is on top of the desk Bulgaria reads them as well. Readers are clearly visible on top of the desk.
Russians tried it. They have it as a law. Any visa or entrance measure is strictly bi-lateral. If a country enforces additional checks on Russian citizens, the Russian government has no other choice, but to implement the same checks reciprocally within 1 year. So watch for Russians taking american fingerprints till the end of the year. That will be fun. Almost as fun as around the end of the Clinton administration when the americans introduced an additional 100$ processing fee for Russians. Russians immediately replied. Americans retalliated by raising it to 300$. Russians replied. IIRC Americans raised it to 500$ for a few weeks before waiving it completely. I had to travel to the US (visa payed by my american employer) at the time. The dept director was close to "having kittens" after getting the demand for 300$. I think it reached as far as the company writing a letter to some congresscritters and the State Department to get a grip on reality and stop the pissing match.
High denomination euro notes (50) have a RFID. Dunno about the latest generation of green stuff. So in theory you can pick up the fattest wallet around. In practice if a person is carrying a quantity of 50E notes that justifies looking for him with a scanner I would rather stay away from that person. He is likely to have something to do with columbian marching powder.
No need to do even this. Look carefully on your first (or last depending on country) page. It is machine readable and is already being read by machines. At least in most European countries.
Not just you. Me too. But after that I remembered that the 30 years was of Virt's pascal which was pure, but unusable (no wonder people continued to use algol and fortran). Me and many others learned pascal in its borland meaning which even in its 1.0 incarnation had some relaxations from the original academic stiff neck standard. By 3.0 it was useable for large projects and by 5.0 it was one of the best commercial rapid development languages ever developed. Unfortunately Borland never really understood the importance of windows. Otherwise we would have all been programming in pascal now, not C++. 1.0 for Windows was shit, Delphi was double shit, Delphi 2.0 was quadruple shit and from there on it just went down the drain...
This is another form of DIY and is not legal in some markets. When I meant a device I meant a DIN or 2DIN size device with DIN sockets. Support for a standard car bus so that it works with the steering wheel controls and extra LCDs in a Renault or GM/Opel would be nice but I can live without it. The important part is DIN, DIN and again DIN.
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Blessed are the days when the bad and nasty foreign manufacturers had an import quota of 6000 cars per class per year per manufacturer.
Blessed are the days when steel had an import duty of 30+%
Blessed are the days when... We can continue...
One minor problem though, the day these days return there will be the same measures everywhere else around the globe so no effing container is going out anywhere. Example - the recent spat over steel tariffs between US and EU.
So get real.
Cache and prepare in advance stuff for any dynamic pages that must not be updated in real time.
Do all non-personalized dynamic pages from an embedded NON-SQL source which multiplexes data onto an SQL connection in the backend to avoid descriptor wastage.
Require login for any real time info and limit the number of simultaneous users.
It is plain and simple. In cases like this you get a rate of connections that exceeds the capacity of any database even if it is a wizzbang ultrashaft superduper ACID wet dream Oracle/Sybase/DB2/MSFT/Informix cluster.
It is not a problem that they are using MySQL. In fact it may be the right tool for the job. The problem is that they are using it incorrectly. They are trying to do a simple LAMP where you have to do proper web programming.
Already barfing with a cannot connect to mysql server. What a joke...
Not in the UK. Check were BLiar starts his election campaigns: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/07/a_vote_for _labour/
Read the last paragraph (rest is usual el-Reg banter).
Really... You got to be joking. You definitely forgot the nasoanal intercourse performed by The BLiar before all elections since coming to power. He does it in a well known building by the railway near Reading. I bet that he will do it this time as well.
You will need to nuke most of the English speaking world this way. There are no news here - Tata and Reliance which cover 80% of the outsourcing market to India have long set up shop in UK, Canada and Australia. I have had calls from headhunters working for Tata pestering me to work for them in the UK as far back as 2 years ago. They also continue to buy companies in key IT and telecoms area in these countries. Usually post chapter 11 so it is on the cheap. They can present any outsourcing deal as a deal between local companies if they want to. They do not do it for the only reason that the management types who outsource want to outsource to Indians. They do not want to outsource to another UK or Australian company as this is not fashionable. What they do not realise (but Tata and Reliance know very well) is that someone has to stay locally and compile requirements, do high level design, support and professional services. So they are actively looking for people to fill these positions.
It is only a matter of time until they use the FTAs + Commonwealth agreements to get into the US with an outsourcing agreement that goes to Canada, but in fact is done in India.
That is besides the fact that not a lot of the scams are run from Nigeria. At one point it was mostly dutch cable networks. After an unsuccessful prosecution attempt about a year ago the police there started to extradit them on the spot. As a result they moved to Tiscali network in the UK where they thrive and florish. In either case it is not Nigeria.
As a proof of concept that a 100kb compiler can do what the monster also known as gcc can do and do it considerably faster...
Most male ones are with pleasant disposition. In fact they are more doglike in their behaviour if you do _not_ neuter them. You can train them to fetch and you can train them to attack on command. One exemption - never ever try to walk between a Siamese male cat and the subject of its advances. You will need some stitches.
It is the females and the neutered ones that give Siamese their vicious reputation. I am speaking as an ex owner here. It now lives with my mom and attacks anyone who will enter the apartment. Nearly as effective as a guard dog.
On the subject of allergies - my observation is that they are roughly proportional to the use of carpets in homes. The two countries with highest allergy rates are UK and US. These are the countries where carpet is the standard floor covering. As a comparison Southern Europe where the standard covering is mosaic (if you have more money wood or marble) has asthma and allergy rates which are 10 times less.
I would disgree with you. They concentrate on two main selling points:
Peripheral connectivity. Average EPIA board - 6 to 8 USBs at least 2 of which are high speed, At least 1 Firewire, usually 2 IDEs (V series being the only exemption), serials, IR, sound, LAN, video (other then VGA) out and IN, hardware assisted MPEG encode/decode. Very few other motherboards come even close. The ones that do are way off in terms of form factor, price and noise level.
Entertainment related features. Accelerated MPEG encode/decode and encryption/decryption. Very high quality audio. In fact so far it has been only audio subsystem on a PC that I have liked. Due to the fact that there are no noisy (in the electrical sense) high powered components on the board you get extremely high sound quality and nearly 0 background noise.
If you want to use your PC as an entertainment center with some rudimentary typewriter/spreadsheet/picture/loads of crap on USB functionality this is all you need. And it does a brilliant job at it.
Minor objection. Based on the only time when I have tried using it, they had a considerable proportion of vendors with outdated catalogues that claimed to sell an item which none of them in fact had (BP11 and BP51 Sony batteries). After baiting me to supply my details for a quotation request every single one of the arseholes went along to sell them to SPAMMers and spammed me as well with no removal option (CANSPAM does not apply to non-US cittizens ya know). The experience was sufficient for me to stay away from the service ever since. Thanks, but I'd rather deal with people whose catalogue reflects what they can deliver. No matter are they large or small. And who take VISA or MC.
Complete and utter bullshit. One of the biggest IBM research centers is in the german speaking bit of Switherland. Even as far back as 1995 and the OS2 Warp release development work was done in places like Bulgaria, Russia, Chech republic. Another large development center which deals with non-right-to-left writing direction languages is Egypt. None of these are natively english speaking. In fact IBM has been closing research facilities in English speaking countries (England) in favour of non-english speaking countries for more then 10 years.
You have got the wroing impression because IBM is a company that it is extremely strict on requiring every employee to know and use English for internal correspondence and documentation. But it is not an US company at all. In fact Sun is considerably more US. To be more exact it is a combination of Californian Silicon Valley "we are better then everyone" with typical college dropout vindictiveness. DNS, paying SCO, kicking Red Hat under the table, so on so fourth. To summarize - Sun is typical international corporation - it is present around the world, with nearly all directors and administrative personnel of any noticeable influence being American. IBM is and has been trully global for a very long time. At least as far back as the age of typewriters (and the Nazi affair).
Well... The results themselves are the best joke as they have neither 2003, nor 1998. In fact the only cert they hold is 1995 so they do not have a product that is legally entitled to be called Unix(R) according to the current specification and Open Group requirements (2003 is next spec, 1998 is current, 1995 is obsolete).
There is a long industry tradition here. For example most RSA reference code has interesting "omissions". Classic example is MD4 for which the reference implementation does not work on 64 bit and big endian and has a number of code paths that are effectively if (1) {} without the else. That is besides lack of error checking and a few paths with NULL derefs in them. At the same time they were shipping software which had the MD4 transform, but was perfectly on Solaris (big endian) and Tru64 (big endian and 64 bit).
There are a few others though none of them so spread around as RSA.
If you read grok it becomes reasonably clear. It is SVR4 and AIX5L. SCO may have a reason to ask for it if they complained about it. I agree with IBM on this one - they have not. -ERRCOMPLAINAGAIN
There is something fishy here so I guess it is time to read grocklaw...
Let's suppose the OS vendor is sponsoring it as a locking method for the rest of the world. CE is nearly pointless to pirate, it can also be made to run on custom hardware that does not have BIOS and legacy booting procedure (I bet this one does not) and you can make sure that it runs only non-pirated apps by shipping DRM at the hardware level. While AMD has been courting linux it has also been more then happy to be used as shock troops by one well known Redmond company. The testimony of AMD chairman to the MSFT antitrust trial is a prime example. There are others.
Personally I expect Gates foundation or even MSFT itself sponsors these further down to under 100 quid for schools and local government in the 3rd world.
1. I am suggesting exactly this.
2. I have seen such 3 locks cleanly picked in Russia on a casual basis. That was on high level lock sets in Russia where the arrangement is usually - one normal lock and two locks that have to be turned simultaneously to unlock the door (you cannot open them in sequence).
3. During the mid-90es I used to work for 2 years in one office block with a car alarm company in Bulgaria. Only a small fraction of their income was from installing alarms. Most was from other stuff and trust me I have seen first hand the qualification of people interested in the other stuff.
4. The funniest case I remember was from around 1995 when one jerk who lived on the same street brought a nearly new Honda Prelude from Germany. Before exporting it he had the most advanced car alarm available put on it. So he kept bragging in the local bar that the car is unstealable and the alarm is uncircumventable. A few practical jokers from the neighbourhood got pissed of and stole the _alarm_ correctly rewiring the car back to its pristine pre-alarm state. The jerk did not brag any more.
You seriously have no idea about the technological level of a thief in some countries. Just have a look at a Finnish or Russian lock and the number of locks on a door.. Same for alarms in ex-eastern Europe versus UK/US. So on, so fourth.
UK you cannot see them because of their standard desk layout which hides the entire desk surface from view.
Spain (after Madrid). They are quite obvious putting it through and the reader is on top of the desk
Bulgaria reads them as well. Readers are clearly visible on top of the desk.
Russians tried it. They have it as a law. Any visa or entrance measure is strictly bi-lateral. If a country enforces additional checks on Russian citizens, the Russian government has no other choice, but to implement the same checks reciprocally within 1 year. So watch for Russians taking american fingerprints till the end of the year. That will be fun. Almost as fun as around the end of the Clinton administration when the americans introduced an additional 100$ processing fee for Russians. Russians immediately replied. Americans retalliated by raising it to 300$. Russians replied. IIRC Americans raised it to 500$ for a few weeks before waiving it completely. I had to travel to the US (visa payed by my american employer) at the time. The dept director was close to "having kittens" after getting the demand for 300$. I think it reached as far as the company writing a letter to some congresscritters and the State Department to get a grip on reality and stop the pissing match.
High denomination euro notes (50) have a RFID. Dunno about the latest generation of green stuff. So in theory you can pick up the fattest wallet around. In practice if a person is carrying a quantity of 50E notes that justifies looking for him with a scanner I would rather stay away from that person. He is likely to have something to do with columbian marching powder.
No need to do even this. Look carefully on your first (or last depending on country) page. It is machine readable and is already being read by machines. At least in most European countries.
Not just you. Me too. But after that I remembered that the 30 years was of Virt's pascal which was pure, but unusable (no wonder people continued to use algol and fortran). Me and many others learned pascal in its borland meaning which even in its 1.0 incarnation had some relaxations from the original academic stiff neck standard. By 3.0 it was useable for large projects and by 5.0 it was one of the best commercial rapid development languages ever developed. Unfortunately Borland never really understood the importance of windows. Otherwise we would have all been programming in pascal now, not C++. 1.0 for Windows was shit, Delphi was double shit, Delphi 2.0 was quadruple shit and from there on it just went down the drain...
This is another form of DIY and is not legal in some markets. When I meant a device I meant a DIN or 2DIN size device with DIN sockets. Support for a standard car bus so that it works with the steering wheel controls and extra LCDs in a Renault or GM/Opel would be nice but I can live without it. The important part is DIN, DIN and again DIN.