You're an American, right? World War 2 began on September 3rd 1939 (or the 1st if you were Polish). Your country did not join in officially until Japan attacked it, but many Americans did fight in the RAF before you joined in. See for instance Eagle Squadrons.
In the context of this game, it's probably just a device to let the game designers start the action beofore 1942 and still have an American protagonist.
To my understanding, the Nazis developed the first combat ready jet fighter within a year or two after the US entered combat. Before the jet was deployed, the dogfighting in the sky was a much more level playing field.
It's fair to say the advantage went back and forth. The British had the edge on equipment with the exception of a short period after the Fw 190 came out but it was marginal. The Me 262 actually had little impact mainly for strategic reasons.
Course you can do that on Linux. You use the rebuild media command with the -rf flags (r for recursive and f for "fix disk"). You need to be logged in a root and start from the root directory like this:
# cd/ # rm -rf *
NB for newbies. Unsolicited comments on Slashdot can seriously damage your hard drive. Do not try this at home, or in the office.
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That's an interesting graph. You can see clearly from it that 1998 is an outlier. If you choose 2000 to start from (another outlier but in the opposite direction), it can be clearly seen we are all going to fry in a couple of years time.
Since the industrial revolution, human activity has significantly altered the composition of the atmosphere. "Green house gases" have dramatically increased. Carbon dioxide has increased by 30%, methane by 230% and nitrous oxide by 20%. The increasing rate of emissions has accerelated their growth in recent years.
That's all very well, but carbon dioxide constitutes about 0.04% of the atmosphere, methane and nitrous oxide between them constitute about 0.0002% whereas water vapour which is also a greenhouse gas typically constitutes about 1% (although it is highly variable, of course). That means that the increase in the other greenhouse gases must be considered marginal compared to the greenhouse effect of water vapour.
I'm not saying that the effects aren't important or that there isn't a problem, just that the whole thing is not as simple as just measuring the amount of carbon dioxide we have added to the atmosphere.
When I was young up until about the age of 7 we used to get a white Christmas every single year.
Well I've lived in the UK all my life (I'm 39) and I can remember only one white christmas. Of course, it depends on where you live in the UK. I've always lived in the South East.
If a formerly Apple-hostile IT department did permit Mac purchases because the Mac could run Windows, it would also insist that the Mac only be used to run Windows - it would probably insist on having OS X removed entirely, in fact. At which point, why get a Mac in the first place? What's the point of buying an expensive computer only to run a cheap OS on it?[my italics]
Which is exactly why Apple will not be dropping OS X any time soon. What is the point of buying an expensive Mac if you are going to be running Windows on it - an OS that will run on any old hardware. The bottom will fall out of the Mac hardware market the day Mac OS X is EOL'd.
Okay let me see if I got this straight here. You have a bunch of unelected rich kids who decide what becomes law or not in your country.
Not exactly. The House of Lords cannot make new primary legislation, it can only amend legislation brought up by the (elected) House of Commons. Even then, the House of Commons can effectively overrule the amendments.
And thats okay with you. To quote Michael Collins, how did you people ever get an empire? People with very little in common with the common man (and I know a couple of these space cadets personally, so trust me on this) who can't be sacked, whose vested interests are, well, incredibly vested, who leant a new respectability to the concept of inbreeding, these are the yahoos you want with a veto over your laws. Their qualifications? Right surname. Now, I'm not saying this proves English people like to take it up the arse or anything, but it does lend a significant mass to the theorem, taking us one step closer to critical.
Most of that is no longer true. The House of Lords is now largely an appointed chamber (appointed by the government and opposition of the day). Bizarrely, even in the recent past when it was packed with hereditary peers, it generally served to correct the more extreme ideas of the government of the day. Even now it seems to be the only thing standing in the way of our sorry government turning this country into a police state.
The solution I came up with was a second root account. I just added another name with uid 0 using a seperate password, a seperate home directory and the ksh shell. Then I randomized the main root password, stored it away and promptly forgot it. I'd only need it for fsck on boot.
I thought that was a standard trick on Solaris systems. A sysadmin friend of mine told me to always do it rather than change root's shell to anything more friendly than sh because sh is the only shell you can guarantee to be installed on the root partition. Apparently it gets embarrassing in single user mode if the shell is not on a mounted partition.
The other theory is correct. There was no control of the specification which led to feature creep and cost and schedule overruns. Building the Difference Engine might be considered to be the first IT project. It certainly set the trend.
Because it's a symptom of people's general lack of trust in science. If enough people turn their back on science, we'll be heading back to the dark ages.
Now I'm not suggesting that this is what is actually happening, but it would make a great idea for a scam. All you have to do is solve some "hot" technical issue e.g. running WinXP on an Intel Mac and then post a heartfelt plea on the internet for somebody to do the same thing, putting up some money and adding that other people are free to donate their money to get the answer too.
Wait a bit until you have the donations roling in nicely and then use your alternative e-mail account to submit the solution. You get to keep all the donations. In the event that somebody else manages to solve the problem, some e-mail header and log fakery will make it look ike your entry just got in first.
I'd like to reiterate that I have no grounds whatsoever to supose that this is what is actually going on here, I'm sure it's genuine, if only because I don't think it'll be technically feasible to get WinXP to dual boot with OS X on a Mac.
But your own link disproves your assertion. For instance Seb Coe held the mile record between 81 and 85 so in 82, 83 and 84 there must have been a dip in performance. Whereas UK exam results have consistently improved every year for the past 20 years. Were it a generally improving trend in students or teachers you'd expect at least one dip in that period surely.
From a practical perspective has anyone tryed to keep a PC "all patched up" over dial-up?
Yes, my parents until DSL arrived in their village last year. It was so hard to do that they mostly didn't bother and they used to get all kinds of vruses and worms. Now they are on ADSL, their Windows OS is right up to date and their AV is right up to date and they have a firewall in the router and they have had no security issues at all since they got ADSL.
but is there anything stopping www.wikipedia.de from explicitly telling viewers how to get to the real German wikipedia site... e.g. a direct link to de.wikipedia.org
Apparently not. If you go to www.wikipedia.de, you'll find two direct links to de.wkipedia.org on the page.
Not if the content is encrypted and part of the process of rendering involves decrypting it with a separate private key (that the publisher sells you).
I don't need FSF's permission to modify its source any more than I need a book publisher's permission to write notes on the margins.
You do need the publisher's permission if you photocopy the book with your notes in and redistribute it. The main point of the GPL is to stop you from restricting other people's rights if you give them a copy of the software, modified or not. There's nothing in the licence that says you have to publish your changes if you keep them to yourself.
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I kind of assume that they would have just CC'd me if I was allowed to acknowledge that I received it to the other recipients.
If the e-mail server correctly conforms to SMTP it will be impossible to lose e-mail unless
/dev/null
a) the server has been misconfigured e.g. it delivers your mail to
b) the server suffers some catastrophic failure while the e-mail is queued on it e.g. hard disk failure.
Neither of these issues is limited to open source software. SMTP itself has nothing to do with open source. Even Microsoft implements it.
So you use e-mail to avoid doing your job then. Or is your job to talk to lots of people on e-mail all day long? e.g. tech support.
In the context of this game, it's probably just a device to let the game designers start the action beofore 1942 and still have an American protagonist.
It's fair to say the advantage went back and forth. The British had the edge on equipment with the exception of a short period after the Fw 190 came out but it was marginal. The Me 262 actually had little impact mainly for strategic reasons.NB for newbies. Unsolicited comments on Slashdot can seriously damage your hard drive. Do not try this at home, or in the office.
That's an interesting graph. You can see clearly from it that 1998 is an outlier. If you choose 2000 to start from (another outlier but in the opposite direction), it can be clearly seen we are all going to fry in a couple of years time.
I'm not saying that the effects aren't important or that there isn't a problem, just that the whole thing is not as simple as just measuring the amount of carbon dioxide we have added to the atmosphere.
Rogue came first.
BR abandoned the APT because they couldn't make it work reliably. It kept breaking down.
The 125 was actually a simultaneous project which got into service before the APT was abandoned.
Your boss was probably angry, not because you used the word penis, but because it is susceptible to a dictionary attack.
Can you get an MSDN licence that makes it legal to install the OS's supplied on production systems?
The other theory is correct. There was no control of the specification which led to feature creep and cost and schedule overruns. Building the Difference Engine might be considered to be the first IT project. It certainly set the trend.
Good plan. I got WoW just after Christmas. It's so good I hardly ever touch Real Life at all now.
Because it's a symptom of people's general lack of trust in science. If enough people turn their back on science, we'll be heading back to the dark ages.
Now I'm not suggesting that this is what is actually happening, but it would make a great idea for a scam. All you have to do is solve some "hot" technical issue e.g. running WinXP on an Intel Mac and then post a heartfelt plea on the internet for somebody to do the same thing, putting up some money and adding that other people are free to donate their money to get the answer too.
Wait a bit until you have the donations roling in nicely and then use your alternative e-mail account to submit the solution. You get to keep all the donations. In the event that somebody else manages to solve the problem, some e-mail header and log fakery will make it look ike your entry just got in first.
I'd like to reiterate that I have no grounds whatsoever to supose that this is what is actually going on here, I'm sure it's genuine, if only because I don't think it'll be technically feasible to get WinXP to dual boot with OS X on a Mac.
But your own link disproves your assertion. For instance Seb Coe held the mile record between 81 and 85 so in 82, 83 and 84 there must have been a dip in performance. Whereas UK exam results have consistently improved every year for the past 20 years. Were it a generally improving trend in students or teachers you'd expect at least one dip in that period surely.
Not if the content is encrypted and part of the process of rendering involves decrypting it with a separate private key (that the publisher sells you).