Not completely true. I emigrated from the UK, and they required a background check for my visa. Unfortunately, you're not allowed to apply for your own in the UK, only your employer can. Enhanced disclosure checks can't be released to you from your employer, and the data protection act has exemptions for anything you actually need to know.
Not exactly. Ownership of a firearm isn't a crime in the UK. Thousands of people own guns. Ownership of an unlicensed firearm is though - and getting a license isn't trivial.
I respectfully disagree. For most of the VM loads I've had, IO has been much more important than CPU. Even a bottom end CPU these days will be more than enough to drive a few VM's (so long as they're not protein folding or something). Memory is cheap, so as much as you can put in. Fast IO is not - 10k or 15k drives, SAS, good RAID all cost money, and are especially important for something like Oracle.
up to sixteen SATA disks attached to two 8 port 3-Ware RAID cards, thus spreading I/O load across two PCI buses
I hope you meant PCIe - I found out the hard way (by not doing my homework) that putting more than 2 SATA disks on a PCI card will bottleneck. 3+ SATA drives on one PCI slot as part of a larger array will make the whole array slow. More drives means even slower.
Use 1x PCIe lane for each 2 drives for best performance, so 4x lane/card for 8 drives.
F.
Move to Europe. I get 500 sms messages a month for free, with no contract (pay as you go). I never buy credit. People here would be outraged to pay to receive messages, even when roaming (in another country).
Adobe have options built into PDF's to do exactly this. My sister gets files like this and has to log into a website before the PDF will open (it's encrypted) and it disables printing, copying, editing, etc.
The Digitus DS-30104 is a 4 SATA PCIe card for about 50. I've not tried it though, I don't know which chipset it uses and I don't know if there is *nix support......but if anyone else does - it would be great to know ))
To use Jumbo Frames every NIC and switch must be configured to have the same MTU. If you try to use Jumbo Frames on a network with 100Mb/s cards (or wireless) things will break in interesting ways, and your network will actually run much slower.
>2. Use PCI-e NIC's, onboard or PCI just can't deliver the speeds offered by GigE.
Geosync orbits were first thought up by Herman PotoÄnik in 1928 - a Slovene rocket engineer. It was proposed in Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums - der Raketen-Motor (The Problem of Space Travel - The Rocket Motor) where he also conceived the idea of a space station.
No, it's not.
All kids develop at different speeds. My neice spent a lot of time on laptops playing on websites when she was 2. No trouble with mice or touchpads, a long way past "What sound does this animal make".
Take a look at KidRocket and Poisson Rouge.
To base even the least significant conclusions upon it seems laughably irresponsible and unscientific.
Like meteorology? Computer simulation of weather systems is at best incomplete, but I wouldn't say it's irresponsible to say there's a 99% chance it'll rain tomorrow in the UK (a safe bet without even checking;)
I don't think it unscientific either to develop a hypothesis, design and run experimental studies (as is happening here) to create, prove or disprove a Theory.
Darwin had no knowledge of DNA - was he laughably irresponsible and unscientific?
Green Diesel is agricultural diesel. It's dyed green because it has a different tax rate, but is otherwise identical to white diesel, and it's illegal to put into non-agricultural vehicles.
I also find it interesting that diesel is more expensive than petrol (gas) the the states - here it's much cheaper.
I think more than that, if I practice law without passing the bar exam, or practice medicine without a licence I can get into serious trouble. The barrier to entry for these industries is quite high, even if you become a nurse / paralegal first.
Any idiot can spend 5 years saying "Thank you for calling Dell", fix their neighbours PC's for a while, read C++ in 24 hours and call themselves a IT consultant without any repercussions.
I work as a game developer. Speaking on behalf of most developers and software houses, we have no problem with the resale market, in fact, we WANT as many people to play our games as possible. We LIKE people playing our games, that's why we make them. Also, getting a name, reputation, recognition means more people will play (buy) more of our games.
Publishers don't like the resale market. Most developers don't have the luxury of shopping around for a publisher or making demands like "Our games can't be DRM'd".
Also, as regards Cyber Cafe's, etc; it's exactly the fame in the film and music industries. I can't buy a retail DVD and show it in public. In many countries (UK for example) any business playing music in public has to pay royalties. Radio, TV are the same. I'm not saying it's right, but it's not limited to software.
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Srsly.
Not completely true. I emigrated from the UK, and they required a background check for my visa. Unfortunately, you're not allowed to apply for your own in the UK, only your employer can. Enhanced disclosure checks can't be released to you from your employer, and the data protection act has exemptions for anything you actually need to know.
Can you explain to me quickly how defining the physical boundries of where something applies isn't a restriction?
Ok. How often does someone get arrested for cannibalism, or necrophilia? After 20 years it becomes legal?
floppy sections of their variable regions that allowed them to reach down to contact hidden epitopes
Best. Euphemism. Ever.
For those that don't know, blinkenlights StarWars is in colour if you connect with IPv6.
Not exactly. Ownership of a firearm isn't a crime in the UK. Thousands of people own guns. Ownership of an unlicensed firearm is though - and getting a license isn't trivial.
I respectfully disagree. For most of the VM loads I've had, IO has been much more important than CPU.
Even a bottom end CPU these days will be more than enough to drive a few VM's (so long as they're not protein folding or something). Memory is cheap, so as much as you can put in. Fast IO is not - 10k or 15k drives, SAS, good RAID all cost money, and are especially important for something like Oracle.
The main sticking point for me is all UK ISPs are IPv4 only.
Wrong. Andrews & Arnold, Bogons, Claranet, Entanet, Goscomb and IDNet all do IP6 in the UK. There are also 22 IP6 transit providers in the UK.
omitted to place a well placed robots.txt
Really, if you're relying on a robot file to keep your customers data safe, you deserve to be beaten and have your geek card revoked.
up to sixteen SATA disks attached to two 8 port 3-Ware RAID cards, thus spreading I/O load across two PCI buses
I hope you meant PCIe - I found out the hard way (by not doing my homework) that putting more than 2 SATA disks on a PCI card will bottleneck. 3+ SATA drives on one PCI slot as part of a larger array will make the whole array slow. More drives means even slower.
Use 1x PCIe lane for each 2 drives for best performance, so 4x lane/card for 8 drives.
F.
Move to Europe. I get 500 sms messages a month for free, with no contract (pay as you go). I never buy credit. People here would be outraged to pay to receive messages, even when roaming (in another country).
Adobe have options built into PDF's to do exactly this. My sister gets files like this and has to log into a website before the PDF will open (it's encrypted) and it disables printing, copying, editing, etc.
The Digitus DS-30104 is a 4 SATA PCIe card for about 50. I've not tried it though, I don't know which chipset it uses and I don't know if there is *nix support... ...but if anyone else does - it would be great to know ))
>1. Use Jumbo Frames, period.
To use Jumbo Frames every NIC and switch must be configured to have the same MTU. If you try to use Jumbo Frames on a network with 100Mb/s cards (or wireless) things will break in interesting ways, and your network will actually run much slower.
>2. Use PCI-e NIC's, onboard or PCI just can't deliver the speeds offered by GigE.
These days most onboard NICs are PCI-E / GigE.
Geosync orbits were first thought up by Herman PotoÄnik in 1928 - a Slovene rocket engineer. It was proposed in Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums - der Raketen-Motor (The Problem of Space Travel - The Rocket Motor) where he also conceived the idea of a space station.
No, it's not. All kids develop at different speeds. My neice spent a lot of time on laptops playing on websites when she was 2. No trouble with mice or touchpads, a long way past "What sound does this animal make". Take a look at KidRocket and Poisson Rouge.
1. Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.
You know Microsoft sell a cream for that...
A singleton can have more than one instance - for example, a pool of connections to a database (the example given in the GoF book).
"Here I am in 2008, and I'm still using Visual Studio 2005 -- why haven't we upgraded to VS 2008 yet?"
...because VS2008 is a buggy POS and half my plugins won't work with it?
To base even the least significant conclusions upon it seems laughably irresponsible and unscientific.
Like meteorology? Computer simulation of weather systems is at best incomplete, but I wouldn't say it's irresponsible to say there's a 99% chance it'll rain tomorrow in the UK (a safe bet without even checking ;)
I don't think it unscientific either to develop a hypothesis, design and run experimental studies (as is happening here) to create, prove or disprove a Theory.
Darwin had no knowledge of DNA - was he laughably irresponsible and unscientific?
...he says that 79p is a rip off when tracks are 99c in the US (currently about 54p). Nothing more.
I also find it interesting that diesel is more expensive than petrol (gas) the the states - here it's much cheaper.
Any idiot can spend 5 years saying "Thank you for calling Dell", fix their neighbours PC's for a while, read C++ in 24 hours and call themselves a IT consultant without any repercussions.
Publishers don't like the resale market. Most developers don't have the luxury of shopping around for a publisher or making demands like "Our games can't be DRM'd".
Also, as regards Cyber Cafe's, etc; it's exactly the fame in the film and music industries. I can't buy a retail DVD and show it in public. In many countries (UK for example) any business playing music in public has to pay royalties. Radio, TV are the same. I'm not saying it's right, but it's not limited to software.