What worries me most is their ability to actually work out the source of the attacks, rather than the machines the attack happens to be comming from.
Although I guess nuking the machines off the face of the planet is one way of stopping them. I have to admit there have been times I wish I could do it.
Namely that's why Amazon Japan get my money for Japanese music, and not Apple.
Apple need to realise that they're losing out on sales because of a contrived market demarcation, one that makes no sense for an online world. Apple is a business, you can only hurt them one way, money. Either by denying them sales, or making them realise they're losing sales because of a stupid, non-sensical, policy.
The only reason things like this still exist is because labels don't want to lose the ability to charge one group of people more money than another group. They want to be able to prevent groups from going to a different pricing region to get their products. There's no justifiable reason for it.
It's one of the world's many problems, everything is someone else's fault; no-one wants to take responsability for themselves anymore - people are too enamoured with apportioning blame. I think partly because if you accept responability for something; you're liable to get crucified for it, which is also wrong.
If you make a simple mistake, but learn from it, it shouldn't be a problem. It's only if you keep making mistakes, and don't learn from any of them, that there's a problem.
I don't actually the problem with using non-metric units - I'd say Imperial, but US measurments are actually different to British Imperial measurements; the US Gallon is slightly larger than an Imperial Gallon, for example - for everyday measurements.
In the UK we still use miles for measuring distances, mph for road speed (boats use knots), and pints for measuring things like beer and milk. People are still damn annoyed about being forced to use metric for loose goods - I have to say I'm one of them; I still think of loose sweets in multiples of 1/4lb. I end up working out how many I want in lbs, then convert it to metric. People tell me distances in km and I just look blank, I have no point of reference for them (as someone else mentioned). We still measure height predominantly in feet and inches and personal weight in stones and ounces (we skip pounds, interestingly).
Even with the metric system it's not entirely standardised; dl are used a lot on the continent, you rarely see them in the UK, we almost always express liquid less than 1l as ml, e.g. 500ml not 5dl.
Metric comes into its own in things like international trade and science/engineering, where they already used in the US and pretty much anywhere else with any sense.
I've been in the position of not getting a position several times, the form "sorry you have not been successful at this time" letter is one of the most annoying things in the world. I want to know why I wasn't successful. Did my interview technique suck? Did I lack confidence? Was I presenting a bad attitude? Was I plain under qualified for the role? Was I over qualified? OK that last one has probably never been a reason for me, but you get the idea. There are so many reasons why you might not get a job it would be nice if they'd narrow it down.
Knowing what's wrong helps you to address the problem. If you're aiming for roles that are above your ability you need to know, so you can aim lower. If you lack confidence - as I know I do; one employer did have the decency to tell me that was why they decided not to hire me, even though I got through the HR interview, tech interview and the second sift - it's moderatly annoying, but at least it means you know you're not unqualified for that kind of role, you just need to work on presenting a more confidence persona.
If the candidate refuses to accept the reason then it really should be their problem, not the company's. Unfortunatly giving someone a reason as to why you didn't hire them, especially those with a bad attitude, just gives them an excuse to blame you. But to be honest, they're probably going to try and blame you anyway.
It always kind of amused me that, if you apply for a civilian role at Essex Police, and you're registered disabled, you're guaranteed an interview and will also get a debrief on your interview if you're not succesful. Of course they're only doing it so that they can't be accused of descrimination. Which is exactly why other employers won't give you a reason.
I still use vim as my primary text editor, on Linux and Windows. It's just a neat little text editor; it does everything I want it to do and it does it efficiently. Plus I've been using it for years, so I'm comoftable with it. I see no reason to stop using it.
I may have switched to using things like Eclipse for editing specific types of text file (Java, PHP, HTML and XML) and using Visual Studio for coding (because nowdays I'm primarily working on Windows), but vim is still my utility text editor when I want to quickly modify or look at a text file.
I daresay a lot of people feel the same way about emacs; frankly they're entitled to.
Except pleading insanity doesn't get you off; it gets you locked up in mental hospital for the rest of your life, or at least until they decide you're no longer crazy and a danger to others.
I'm not sure what the corporate equivalent of locking you up in a loonie bin would be.
Quite right too, it's not Google's job to decide what is and isn't legal.
I suspect Google would actually love for a court to order them to take them offline, but only an idiot would do it without having the legal obligation to do so; you're opening yourself up to no end of problems and legal headaches otherwise.
I tend to use Eclipse for Linux based dev, although I tend to pop open a shell window for doing build tests and the like (I mostly write daemons).
Of course when I'm whoring it on Windows I use Visual Studio - yeah I know, but I rather like having money and when someone specifies they want Windows software, that's what I write.
It depends on what they're learning programming for.
If they're actually going to be writing code for a living then starting with the basics - ie a text editor and command line tools - will give them a much better working understanding of the language and programming in general. Introducing them to an IDE later on will teach them how to use it to increase the speed of their development; larger projects are easier to work on when you have a decent IDE to hold it all together and the wizards can be a god-send when you actually understand the theory behind the code it produces. With the good grounding they'll also be able to see when the automaticly generated code is crap and it's better to do it yourself.
If, on the other hand, they're just learning for course credit and having another string for their bow, sod it and start with the IDE because they probably don't need a really good grounding in programming; knowing how to produce functional, if not polished, code quickly is probably more important to them.
I have no rabid love for Sony. In fact I dislike them more that Microsoft nowdays. The thought of them being taken over by Microsoft actually makes me smirk.
Once upon a time I used to compile my own binaries; now days I have better things to do with my time.
The only time I compile my own binaries now is when the standard binary package doesn't have a feature enabled that I want, the most common example of that is Exim. In those cases it's just a case of doing an apt-get source, modifying the appropiate files and then doing dpkg-buildpackage. Voila, nice binary packages built the way I want them.
We captured a machine from U110 in 1941, but I think that was one of the older, non-M4, models. The British also captured the naval codebooks from U559, which enabled us to work out how the M4 worked.
A copy of the original 3 rotor Enigma was given to us, and the French, by the Polish in 1939. The Polish had been breaking German signals for sometime before the invasion of Poland, iirc.
The film "U-571" is actually a combination of various seperate events, some of them carried out by the British and some by the Americans. It's just a shame they only felt the need to mention Britain's part in the text at the end. As I recall, that boat was actually sunk by the Australians.
As I understand it, the reason a lot of manufacturers won't open up the specs for their chips is because they're cheap software controlled radio tranceivers; where the only restriction on the radio frequency used, is the software itself.
This is what I've heard anyway. Whether it's true, or not, I couldn't say; if it is then it's moderatly understandable as to why they're unwilling to open up their specs.
Doesn't surprise me in the least - I frequently think over buying things for weeks before I finally do it.
Usually I'll start off by getting an idea of how much something costs, then decide if I really want/need it and then I'll actually get round to the serious business of working out the best place to source what I want.
Only real exceptions to this are when I'm buying things that I buy frequently.
One of the reasons I like E-Buyer so much, for computer bits, is because I can save cart contents as quotes and then convert them into an order at a future date.
Mine doesn't get used for much beyond general purpose calculation now days - I too have had it since I was about 16, nearly 10 years now. I used it while I was studying Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Computer Science at A-Level. Funny thing is I no longer have anything to do with any sciences if I can help it.
Come to think of it, this week is the first time it's been used for "real" calculations for quite some time (I was playing around with Mersenne Numbers and the Lucas-Lehmer Test, was using the ol' TI-85 to double check my program).
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If they respond to the road tracking petition the reply is going to go to over 1.6 million people.
What worries me most is their ability to actually work out the source of the attacks, rather than the machines the attack happens to be comming from.
Although I guess nuking the machines off the face of the planet is one way of stopping them. I have to admit there have been times I wish I could do it.
Namely that's why Amazon Japan get my money for Japanese music, and not Apple.
Apple need to realise that they're losing out on sales because of a contrived market demarcation, one that makes no sense for an online world. Apple is a business, you can only hurt them one way, money. Either by denying them sales, or making them realise they're losing sales because of a stupid, non-sensical, policy.
The only reason things like this still exist is because labels don't want to lose the ability to charge one group of people more money than another group. They want to be able to prevent groups from going to a different pricing region to get their products. There's no justifiable reason for it.
It's one of the world's many problems, everything is someone else's fault; no-one wants to take responsability for themselves anymore - people are too enamoured with apportioning blame. I think partly because if you accept responability for something; you're liable to get crucified for it, which is also wrong.
If you make a simple mistake, but learn from it, it shouldn't be a problem. It's only if you keep making mistakes, and don't learn from any of them, that there's a problem.
I don't actually the problem with using non-metric units - I'd say Imperial, but US measurments are actually different to British Imperial measurements; the US Gallon is slightly larger than an Imperial Gallon, for example - for everyday measurements.
In the UK we still use miles for measuring distances, mph for road speed (boats use knots), and pints for measuring things like beer and milk. People are still damn annoyed about being forced to use metric for loose goods - I have to say I'm one of them; I still think of loose sweets in multiples of 1/4lb. I end up working out how many I want in lbs, then convert it to metric. People tell me distances in km and I just look blank, I have no point of reference for them (as someone else mentioned). We still measure height predominantly in feet and inches and personal weight in stones and ounces (we skip pounds, interestingly).
Even with the metric system it's not entirely standardised; dl are used a lot on the continent, you rarely see them in the UK, we almost always express liquid less than 1l as ml, e.g. 500ml not 5dl.
Metric comes into its own in things like international trade and science/engineering, where they already used in the US and pretty much anywhere else with any sense.
I've been in the position of not getting a position several times, the form "sorry you have not been successful at this time" letter is one of the most annoying things in the world. I want to know why I wasn't successful. Did my interview technique suck? Did I lack confidence? Was I presenting a bad attitude? Was I plain under qualified for the role? Was I over qualified? OK that last one has probably never been a reason for me, but you get the idea. There are so many reasons why you might not get a job it would be nice if they'd narrow it down.
Knowing what's wrong helps you to address the problem. If you're aiming for roles that are above your ability you need to know, so you can aim lower. If you lack confidence - as I know I do; one employer did have the decency to tell me that was why they decided not to hire me, even though I got through the HR interview, tech interview and the second sift - it's moderatly annoying, but at least it means you know you're not unqualified for that kind of role, you just need to work on presenting a more confidence persona.
If the candidate refuses to accept the reason then it really should be their problem, not the company's. Unfortunatly giving someone a reason as to why you didn't hire them, especially those with a bad attitude, just gives them an excuse to blame you. But to be honest, they're probably going to try and blame you anyway.
It always kind of amused me that, if you apply for a civilian role at Essex Police, and you're registered disabled, you're guaranteed an interview and will also get a debrief on your interview if you're not succesful. Of course they're only doing it so that they can't be accused of descrimination. Which is exactly why other employers won't give you a reason.
I still use vim as my primary text editor, on Linux and Windows. It's just a neat little text editor; it does everything I want it to do and it does it efficiently. Plus I've been using it for years, so I'm comoftable with it. I see no reason to stop using it.
I may have switched to using things like Eclipse for editing specific types of text file (Java, PHP, HTML and XML) and using Visual Studio for coding (because nowdays I'm primarily working on Windows), but vim is still my utility text editor when I want to quickly modify or look at a text file.
I daresay a lot of people feel the same way about emacs; frankly they're entitled to.
The key bit of that entry is "See also loony (short for "lunatic"), which is sometimes spelled 'loonie'".
Except pleading insanity doesn't get you off; it gets you locked up in mental hospital for the rest of your life, or at least until they decide you're no longer crazy and a danger to others.
I'm not sure what the corporate equivalent of locking you up in a loonie bin would be.
If you his comment on the side you'll see his borrowed them from friends.
To be fair on them, KoTOR2 was realsed incomplete because of pressure from LucasArts.
The story wasn't too bad either. It would have been even better if it was complete, of course.
Quite right too, it's not Google's job to decide what is and isn't legal.
I suspect Google would actually love for a court to order them to take them offline, but only an idiot would do it without having the legal obligation to do so; you're opening yourself up to no end of problems and legal headaches otherwise.
I tend to use Eclipse for Linux based dev, although I tend to pop open a shell window for doing build tests and the like (I mostly write daemons). Of course when I'm whoring it on Windows I use Visual Studio - yeah I know, but I rather like having money and when someone specifies they want Windows software, that's what I write.
It depends on what they're learning programming for.
If they're actually going to be writing code for a living then starting with the basics - ie a text editor and command line tools - will give them a much better working understanding of the language and programming in general. Introducing them to an IDE later on will teach them how to use it to increase the speed of their development; larger projects are easier to work on when you have a decent IDE to hold it all together and the wizards can be a god-send when you actually understand the theory behind the code it produces. With the good grounding they'll also be able to see when the automaticly generated code is crap and it's better to do it yourself.
If, on the other hand, they're just learning for course credit and having another string for their bow, sod it and start with the IDE because they probably don't need a really good grounding in programming; knowing how to produce functional, if not polished, code quickly is probably more important to them.
I have no rabid love for Sony. In fact I dislike them more that Microsoft nowdays. The thought of them being taken over by Microsoft actually makes me smirk.
Once upon a time I used to compile my own binaries; now days I have better things to do with my time.
The only time I compile my own binaries now is when the standard binary package doesn't have a feature enabled that I want, the most common example of that is Exim. In those cases it's just a case of doing an apt-get source, modifying the appropiate files and then doing dpkg-buildpackage. Voila, nice binary packages built the way I want them.
That depends on how you're defining "The Enigma".
We captured a machine from U110 in 1941, but I think that was one of the older, non-M4, models. The British also captured the naval codebooks from U559, which enabled us to work out how the M4 worked.
A copy of the original 3 rotor Enigma was given to us, and the French, by the Polish in 1939. The Polish had been breaking German signals for sometime before the invasion of Poland, iirc.
The film "U-571" is actually a combination of various seperate events, some of them carried out by the British and some by the Americans. It's just a shame they only felt the need to mention Britain's part in the text at the end. As I recall, that boat was actually sunk by the Australians.
As I understand it, the reason a lot of manufacturers won't open up the specs for their chips is because they're cheap software controlled radio tranceivers; where the only restriction on the radio frequency used, is the software itself. This is what I've heard anyway. Whether it's true, or not, I couldn't say; if it is then it's moderatly understandable as to why they're unwilling to open up their specs.
Doesn't surprise me in the least - I frequently think over buying things for weeks before I finally do it.
Usually I'll start off by getting an idea of how much something costs, then decide if I really want/need it and then I'll actually get round to the serious business of working out the best place to source what I want.
Only real exceptions to this are when I'm buying things that I buy frequently.
One of the reasons I like E-Buyer so much, for computer bits, is because I can save cart contents as quotes and then convert them into an order at a future date.
Yay for irony.
Apparently being out there is effecting your English skills though ;)
I can't imagine you without a geeky look...mind you I haven't seen your for nearly, what, two or three years?
Ahhhh, you mean when one of us can be bothered to do it.
So, when exactly are we adding IPv6 support to ircu? ;)
*goes to hide from their "boss"*
Mine doesn't get used for much beyond general purpose calculation now days - I too have had it since I was about 16, nearly 10 years now. I used it while I was studying Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Computer Science at A-Level. Funny thing is I no longer have anything to do with any sciences if I can help it. Come to think of it, this week is the first time it's been used for "real" calculations for quite some time (I was playing around with Mersenne Numbers and the Lucas-Lehmer Test, was using the ol' TI-85 to double check my program).
I still use my TI-85 - never seen the need to buy anything else.