If you know any of your art history, you should be aware that there was very little Roman in Romanesque art. The reason that period is called Romanesque is because there was some superficial similarities in the architecture of cathedrals, but that's about it. Compared with Roman arts, Romansque period is rather inferior.
there is no such a thing as 'innocent'. we are all born in sin. that little bunny Foofoo didn't accept Jesus as its savior, so it has deserved to be mercilessly hunted and killed.
as the premium, and the best cost-effective solution is NiMH rechargable. See the article in New Your Times - rather thorough review. (no, I don't provide the URL, but it's in tech section).
or, say, jazz. just get some CDs and listen on your way. You can read about the composer/performer/particular piece beforehand. I've been doing it for quite a while. Even if you are familiar with either, there is always something new to learn. Like I've spent a couple of years listening (and learning) jazz of 60-70s, and now I'm focusing on pre-Bach time (early Baroque and Renaissance).
First, the fact that people who 'hardly working' will always find something to do rather than work. Before PCs (so there was a terminal connected to a mainframe), I saw those 'cobol programmers' reading newspaper. After PCs (but before Internect connectivity), I saw the same cobol programmers playing solitaire, and finally after internet connectivity, the same cobol programmers happily surfing the web. I don't think taking away internet connectivity, or even taking away the PC won't change anything.
Second, government employees. That's thet's tough nut to crack. I've been working as a state employee for a few years, and what I've learned - if you do something, you may get some criticism for doing something rather than something else, or for doing it badly. BUT - if you are doing *nothing*, it's very difficult to make a case against you. I was working in the agency which collects contribution to unemployment fund, from employers. Collection takes place 4 times a year, and lasts for about a month, that's the period of fairly high activity. The rest of the time there is very little to do. again, I'm not sure that blocking the internet access, removing solitaire game from the PC or even taking away the PC will change anything. The'll be gossiping, talking on a phone, whatever... and that's the nature of lots of govenment and state agencies. it's fairly easy to avoid doing *any* work. The real problem is not to get to bored and find the way to entertain yourself. (what I did was hiding somewhere between the file cabinets and reading the books on computer science.)
So the bottom line: it's not Internet fault, and it's not PC fault. it's the people or working environment or both.
seems like you have very little experience and understanding of TCP/IP. Just look at it: I quote: if VoIP doesn't work anymore, 'games and all sort of other applications won't work anymore either'. Absolutely idiotic piece of crap. 'games and all sortr of other applications'. WHAT other applications? HTTP won't work? SMTP won't work? FTP, telnet won't work? Holy Moses, seems like games is the only other application besides VoIP you are aware of.
if ISP X has an agreement with ISP Y to pass the traffic through itself ('transit AS'), without any special considerations, it will do just that, as a best effort. Tagging? Of course, X will ignore any tags created by Y. X would be crazy to do otherwise. I used to work for ISP (which had AS 1. makes a good trivia question, eh?) so that's pretty much the rules of the game. This is incidently the main reason why QoS on the Internet (with a capital 'I') is practically non-existant. Since the backbone is privatized and fragmented, there is no real cooperation, only competition. I do what's optimal for my AS, and to hell with the global perspective (a 'hot potato' routing would make a good example). In such an environment I'm surprised VoIP works at all. In principle it ought to be less reliable than two tin cans connected with a wire. At least that wire is a point-to-point conneciton, not going through the hostile AS.
I used to work for the company that wrote a software for IBM mainframes. We had to deal with the different agencies. each used something REALLY old, I had to maintain virtual machine environment, so we can bring up some of those older OS versions if necessary for debugging. I remember one funny case when someone called from the agency I won't give a name (but you can figure it out), the guy said he had the software crashed, but he DID NOT WANT to give any details of what was wrong, neither to tell which operating system he was using. We had to deal with his boss and his boss' boss to get the information we needed to debug the problem.
Well, there were two reasons why they've used OS'es that old. First, if it works, don't upgrade it. It ain't broken so don't fix it. Second, upgrade may require bigger hardware, and you have to justify the cost of upgrade, so why bother?
For those familiar with the history of IBM mainframe-based OS'es, we had to maintain OS/VS1 (or something like that). blah.
and the feeling I had - there was something fishy about it. Even if I've cleaned my machine with several freeware utilities, it has reported about 20 potential problems. It has pointed on one file, as infected with virus which was a text file, one of the info files for GNU Emacs. So I have deleted whatever I've downloaded and forgot the whole story - till I saw this news.
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If you know any of your art history, you should be aware that there was very little Roman in Romanesque art. The reason that period is called Romanesque is because there was some superficial similarities in the architecture of cathedrals, but that's about it. Compared with Roman arts, Romansque period is rather inferior.
Gosh, I imagine the sight. Probably even worse than Paris Hilton. Don't call it 'useful purpose', PLEEEAASEEEE!
... another amazing fact discovered by the linear accelerator.
of two neutron stars?
somehow it reminds me of Chrysler and Daimler-Benz. Not sure why.
there is no such a thing as 'innocent'. we are all born in sin. that little bunny Foofoo didn't accept Jesus as its savior, so it has deserved to be mercilessly hunted and killed.
Aleph zero. The beginning.
With a possible sequel:
Aleph one - the power of Aleph zero.
Is he the guy who started with MP3.com? what does he know about Unix (and Linux) administration? He sounds like not too much.
Darth Vader discovers that he's really not for profit, changes his name to Gnu/Vader, and establishes the PanGallactic cult of RMS.
of course it's better idea. while they chase one criminal, they can run over others on their way. also it will make a really cool news report.
...
Helicopters, schmelicopters
of the Soviet Union:
The soviet radio jammers are the most powerful radio jammers in the world.
The soviet paralysis is the most progressive paralysis.
The soviet lullabye must awake the masses.
IPTelevised!!!
as the premium, and the best cost-effective solution is NiMH rechargable. See the article in New Your Times - rather thorough review. (no, I don't provide the URL, but it's in tech section).
you never know whether it's hoax or not.
a pessimist says: it can't be any worse than that.
an optimist replies: no, it will be, it will be.
T-rex T-bone steak. Very rare.
Looks great on a restaurant's menu.
or, say, jazz. just get some CDs and listen on your way. You can read about the composer/performer/particular piece beforehand. I've been doing it for quite a while. Even if you are familiar with either, there is always something new to learn. Like I've spent a couple of years listening (and learning) jazz of 60-70s, and now I'm focusing on pre-Bach time (early Baroque and Renaissance).
First, the fact that people who 'hardly working' will always find something to do rather than work. Before PCs (so there was a terminal connected to a mainframe), I saw those 'cobol programmers' reading newspaper. After PCs (but before Internect connectivity), I saw the same cobol programmers playing solitaire, and finally after internet connectivity, the same cobol programmers happily surfing the web. I don't think taking away internet connectivity, or even taking away the PC won't change anything.
... and that's the nature of lots of govenment and state agencies. it's fairly easy to avoid doing *any* work. The real problem is not to get to bored and find the way to entertain yourself. (what I did was hiding somewhere between the file cabinets and reading the books on computer science.)
Second, government employees. That's thet's tough nut to crack. I've been working as a state employee for a few years, and what I've learned - if you do something, you may get some criticism for doing something rather than something else, or for doing it badly. BUT - if you are doing *nothing*, it's very difficult to make a case against you. I was working in the agency which collects contribution to unemployment fund, from employers. Collection takes place 4 times a year, and lasts for about a month, that's the period of fairly high activity. The rest of the time there is very little to do. again, I'm not sure that blocking the internet access, removing solitaire game from the PC or even taking away the PC will change anything. The'll be gossiping, talking on a phone, whatever
So the bottom line: it's not Internet fault, and it's not PC fault. it's the people or working environment or both.
in the Middle Ages. With judge Scalia as Grand Inquisitor.
some dalmatian. (which he mistakes for bulgarian).
(or 1000 dalmatians)
seems like you have very little experience and understanding of TCP/IP. Just look at it: I quote: if VoIP doesn't work anymore, 'games and all sort of other applications won't work anymore either'. Absolutely idiotic piece of crap. 'games and all sortr of other applications'. WHAT other applications? HTTP won't work? SMTP won't work? FTP, telnet won't work? Holy Moses, seems like games is the only other application besides VoIP you are aware of.
if ISP X has an agreement with ISP Y to pass the traffic through itself ('transit AS'), without any special considerations, it will do just that, as a best effort. Tagging? Of course, X will ignore any tags created by Y. X would be crazy to do otherwise. I used to work for ISP (which had AS 1. makes a good trivia question, eh?) so that's pretty much the rules of the game. This is incidently the main reason why QoS on the Internet (with a capital 'I') is practically non-existant. Since the backbone is privatized and fragmented, there is no real cooperation, only competition. I do what's optimal for my AS, and to hell with the global perspective (a 'hot potato' routing would make a good example). In such an environment I'm surprised VoIP works at all. In principle it ought to be less reliable than two tin cans connected with a wire. At least that wire is a point-to-point conneciton, not going through the hostile AS.
are using.
I used to work for the company that wrote a software for IBM mainframes. We had to deal with the different agencies. each used something REALLY old, I had to maintain virtual machine environment, so we can bring up some of those older OS versions if necessary for debugging. I remember one funny case when someone called from the agency I won't give a name (but you can figure it out), the guy said he had the software crashed, but he DID NOT WANT to give any details of what was wrong, neither to tell which operating system he was using. We had to deal with his boss and his boss' boss to get the information we needed to debug the problem.
Well, there were two reasons why they've used OS'es that old. First, if it works, don't upgrade it. It ain't broken so don't fix it. Second, upgrade may require bigger hardware, and you have to justify the cost of upgrade, so why bother?
For those familiar with the history of IBM mainframe-based OS'es, we had to maintain OS/VS1 (or something like that). blah.
they speak portugese in Brasil, you dolt.
with all of its virgins as well.
on the other hand, our civilization is just a mold as far as the universe is concerned. so - in a big cosmic sense - who cares.
and the feeling I had - there was something fishy about it. Even if I've cleaned my machine with several freeware utilities, it has reported about 20 potential problems. It has pointed on one file, as infected with virus which was a text file, one of the info files for GNU Emacs. So I have deleted whatever I've downloaded and forgot the whole story - till I saw this news.