My laptop has one, my workstation at home has one and all the PCs at work have them. They're all Windows PCs. Firewire isn't rare; it's possibly just rare for people to use it. Partly, I expect, because USB2 is faster (at least on paper).
I use a fountain pen all the time, a Sheaffer Prelude one in matt black with gold plate trim. I use ink from bottles too, not cartridges. But then I also use a turquoise ink, just to be different.
I'm tempted to get the pencil and the rollerball to go with it at some point.
Short Message Service. What most people called "texts". Although I still call them SMSes, which is perhaps because I'm old or something.
The old Nokia phones used to use the morse code for SMS as the default tone for a new SMS message. Quite possibly still do, for all I know - not used a Nokia since my 9110 gave up the ghost.
Only if the person who releases something under the GPL is based in the US. Anything I, for example, release under the GPL will be unaffected, as I'm based in the UK and operating under UK copyright law.
Key Skills IT Level 3 at college - I was there a few years ago in an attempt to get some A-Levels so I could actually go to Uni and get some pieces of paper that say I can do the things I do, because it seems just being able to do them isn't enough for some people. It is the most boring thing I've ever had the misfortune to be submitted to.
If I ever have to do that again, I'm taking my BCS membership card, circling the bit that says MBCS and stapling it to someone's head.
The UDA/UDF are protestant, the IRA and it various splinter groups are catholics. I really loved growing up in the UK in the 80s. Having a special alarm at school for a bomb alert, in addition to the regular fire alarm.
Christianity has more than enough of its own terrorists who are no better than the Islamic ones (or any other flavour of murdering idiots).
If only more companies were so honest and straight forward when they cockup. It almost makes me feel like playing EVE again. CCP can consider themselves as being given a virtual karma bonus.
Although I can't help but wonder if the "honesty is the best policy" choice was because of their handling of the last PR cockup.
Technically, I think, that is untrue - piracy is copyright violation. Money doesn't have to have changed hands to obtain the permission to use the copyrighted item, merely permission has to be given; that is what you're being given when you download the music via the official channels.
If you obtain a copyright item from the copyright holder (or an empowered agent of the holder) and then pass on that item to someone else you can't also give them the copyright holder's permission to use it - unless you've been granted that power by the copyright holder, which I doubt is the case with the Radiohead album.
The IRC RFC (the original, I don't think anyone even looks at the new ones) suffers from much the same problem. Come to think of it, it didn't even match the implementation in the original IRC server daemon. The Client to Server portions will work OK, but the Server to Server portions have been re-implemented in custom manners by most of the major networks.
My father still has his British Thornton as well, he's in his early 60s. I think he's had it since he did his engineering apprenticeship. It lives in the garage with his lathe and mill now.
I'm tempted to learn how to use it; they were alas consigned to history by the time I was at school. Although I think one of my A-Level Maths lecturers still used one, from time to time.
People at work think I'm weird because I still have my TI-85 from when I did A-Level Physics and Maths (and the guy who passes for my line manager thinks I'm weird because I knew how to calculate non-unique combinations).
If you look at proper stock photography sites, all the photos with models in will have something like "Model Release on file", written next to them. It's there for a very good reason.
Actually, historically speaking, English monarchs typically weren't all that rich, or at least didn't have much in the way of what we would call disposable income. Everything they needed to pay for came out of the royal treasury - that included paying for things like ships and armies, as well as their own personal expenses.
The state of Pennsylvania exists because Charles II needed to pay back a large debt owed to William Penn's father (Admiral Penn) - the only way he could pay for it was by forking over a huge amount of land. He'd never be able to raise the money to pay it back.
Elizabeth II, on the other hand, is loaded. Mostly because of the amount of land she privately holds (as opposed to holds by right of being the crown).
Microsoft may have just banned trademarks. It would be nice to know what other words it didn't permit, before we all run round doing the "omg! M$ are evil!" thing.
Aye. It would be nice to have managers who responded to another manager saying, "Your staff aren't doing anything!" with, "Yeah. Good, aren't they?" It's probably never going to happen, of course. Well unless you're lucky and work for a company where your manager has actually come up from the ranks, as it were.
Fortunately my current job has me working in an IT/Dev department of four people - three, when the guy I'm replacing leaves - so my "boss" actually has a technical background (he's an Oracle DBA).
I seem to recall that it used to be said that the sign of a productive UNIX admin was that they sat there doing nothing most of the time, whilst all the systems were running fine.
It's flippant and probably not what a boss wants to hear, but it always amused me. Maybe you should just measure the number of/. stories read in a day? That's what I do with my idle time at work anyway:)
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My laptop has one, my workstation at home has one and all the PCs at work have them. They're all Windows PCs. Firewire isn't rare; it's possibly just rare for people to use it. Partly, I expect, because USB2 is faster (at least on paper).
"Use the Force!" does sound much better than "Use the Higgs boson!" though. Although, surprisingly, slightly less geeky.
I use a fountain pen all the time, a Sheaffer Prelude one in matt black with gold plate trim. I use ink from bottles too, not cartridges. But then I also use a turquoise ink, just to be different.
I'm tempted to get the pencil and the rollerball to go with it at some point.
Do rules lawyers count?
Short Message Service. What most people called "texts". Although I still call them SMSes, which is perhaps because I'm old or something.
The old Nokia phones used to use the morse code for SMS as the default tone for a new SMS message. Quite possibly still do, for all I know - not used a Nokia since my 9110 gave up the ghost.
Clarkson is a tit, but I suspect he's enough of a man to just let them keep the donation.
Only if the person who releases something under the GPL is based in the US. Anything I, for example, release under the GPL will be unaffected, as I'm based in the UK and operating under UK copyright law.
Key Skills IT Level 3 at college - I was there a few years ago in an attempt to get some A-Levels so I could actually go to Uni and get some pieces of paper that say I can do the things I do, because it seems just being able to do them isn't enough for some people. It is the most boring thing I've ever had the misfortune to be submitted to.
If I ever have to do that again, I'm taking my BCS membership card, circling the bit that says MBCS and stapling it to someone's head.
The UDA/UDF are protestant, the IRA and it various splinter groups are catholics. I really loved growing up in the UK in the 80s. Having a special alarm at school for a bomb alert, in addition to the regular fire alarm.
Christianity has more than enough of its own terrorists who are no better than the Islamic ones (or any other flavour of murdering idiots).
CCP write it as EVE on the website.
If only more companies were so honest and straight forward when they cockup. It almost makes me feel like playing EVE again. CCP can consider themselves as being given a virtual karma bonus.
Although I can't help but wonder if the "honesty is the best policy" choice was because of their handling of the last PR cockup.
Good. So did I.
Technically, I think, that is untrue - piracy is copyright violation. Money doesn't have to have changed hands to obtain the permission to use the copyrighted item, merely permission has to be given; that is what you're being given when you download the music via the official channels.
If you obtain a copyright item from the copyright holder (or an empowered agent of the holder) and then pass on that item to someone else you can't also give them the copyright holder's permission to use it - unless you've been granted that power by the copyright holder, which I doubt is the case with the Radiohead album.
The IRC RFC (the original, I don't think anyone even looks at the new ones) suffers from much the same problem. Come to think of it, it didn't even match the implementation in the original IRC server daemon. The Client to Server portions will work OK, but the Server to Server portions have been re-implemented in custom manners by most of the major networks.
You know, I don't think I have any sympathy for the upset gamers on campus networks.
Also, are you seriously trying to tell me that /. couldn't find something more interesting to post?
My father still has his British Thornton as well, he's in his early 60s. I think he's had it since he did his engineering apprenticeship. It lives in the garage with his lathe and mill now.
I'm tempted to learn how to use it; they were alas consigned to history by the time I was at school. Although I think one of my A-Level Maths lecturers still used one, from time to time.
People at work think I'm weird because I still have my TI-85 from when I did A-Level Physics and Maths (and the guy who passes for my line manager thinks I'm weird because I knew how to calculate non-unique combinations).
If you look at proper stock photography sites, all the photos with models in will have something like "Model Release on file", written next to them. It's there for a very good reason.
Actually, historically speaking, English monarchs typically weren't all that rich, or at least didn't have much in the way of what we would call disposable income. Everything they needed to pay for came out of the royal treasury - that included paying for things like ships and armies, as well as their own personal expenses.
The state of Pennsylvania exists because Charles II needed to pay back a large debt owed to William Penn's father (Admiral Penn) - the only way he could pay for it was by forking over a huge amount of land. He'd never be able to raise the money to pay it back.
Elizabeth II, on the other hand, is loaded. Mostly because of the amount of land she privately holds (as opposed to holds by right of being the crown).
God I hope not.
Microsoft may have just banned trademarks. It would be nice to know what other words it didn't permit, before we all run round doing the "omg! M$ are evil!" thing.
Aye. It would be nice to have managers who responded to another manager saying, "Your staff aren't doing anything!" with, "Yeah. Good, aren't they?" It's probably never going to happen, of course. Well unless you're lucky and work for a company where your manager has actually come up from the ranks, as it were.
Fortunately my current job has me working in an IT/Dev department of four people - three, when the guy I'm replacing leaves - so my "boss" actually has a technical background (he's an Oracle DBA).
Are you sure about that? I don't think I'd trust some of the more fundamental Christians not to do it.
I seem to recall that it used to be said that the sign of a productive UNIX admin was that they sat there doing nothing most of the time, whilst all the systems were running fine.
It's flippant and probably not what a boss wants to hear, but it always amused me. Maybe you should just measure the number of /. stories read in a day? That's what I do with my idle time at work anyway :)
You mean like all the links and peering they have on their network diagram...
The BBC used to have an ISP, but they sold it off to some other company because it wasn't worth their while to run it, iirc.
...that's the same way round.