Yep, if you really must use obsolete units, post a translation alongside - e.g., "310mph (500km/h)". You're writing for nerds, not your confused grandparents!
Or, in Chrome, open a new tab and in the right hand side bottom corner there's a link that says "recently closed". It doesn't get much easier than that!
Even if anarchy was attainable in this universe, it would be unworkable - as it would require every member of the population to spend 25 hours a day in meetings, trying to agree on how to run the world.
Don't forget Murdoch tried keeping up with the times and failed dismally - he bought MySpace, which he later sold at a massive loss. He's totally incapable of getting to grips with the modern world.
However, the issue here is that the NBN will compete with his Foxtel cable TV network - making the result of a big of capital investment totally redundant. So business opportunities don't really come into it.
Not disputing what you say, but video disks were around in the early 80s. When i was working (as a games programmer) for Thorn EMI in London in 1982, they were working on interactive video disks. These were 10 inch disks as far as i remember.
CUPS didn't even exist in 1993! It was lpd back then. I don't remember when CUPS first popped up in RedHat or whatever i was using at the time, but it was as long time after 1993.
[......] here is a legitimate small business trying to stay alive and instead of the usual "Just accept getting ripped off, information wants to be free!" bullshit instead there is actual discussion on how best to protect his content while still giving the customers a good experience.
Maybe. But whether or not information wants to be free, the crucial question to ask is "is piracy actually costing me anything?" The stupid assumption made by the music and film industry is that every pirated copy is one copy less that they'll sell - which is clearly nonsense. Just because someone takes something that is available for free doesn't mean they'd pay for it if it wasn't. I'm sure the vast majority of people who read / listen to / watch pirated material would never have paid for it anyway, they would have been doing something else for free instead.
So unless you can prove that the people who are reading the pirated version of the magazine are people who would have bought it if it hadn't been pirated (which is mostly pretty unlikely), then it's a complete waste of time and money trying to fix something that isn't really a problem. It would be much more productive to put those resources into building up the paying customer base.
The IRA was directly about Catholicism vs Protestantism - in particular a group of people who were no longer part of Britain wanting to impose *their* will on a part of Ireland that had a different majority religion and wanted to stay part of Britain.
It's not really about religion at all - the catholics and the protestants are different ethnic groups - the protestants were imported into Ireland from Scotland by the British, deliberately to cause trouble there
But you're completely wrong about the geography. No part of Ireland has never been a part of Britain (not within recent geological time, anyway). "Britain" is the name of the island that contains England, Wales, and Scotland ("Great Britain" is just a pompous contraction of "Greater Britain", which is the island of Britain and all the little islands around it - not including the island of Ireland and its little islands). The six counties of Northern Ireland are part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I assume (but don't know) that before the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland gained independence from London, that was called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
What part of the term "HyperTEXT" did the working group fail to understand?
HyperText Transfer Protocol = a protocol for transferring hypertext. The protocol is not the hypertext - documents marked up with HyperText Markup Language are the hypertext. The protocol is just used for transferring them.
Linux as a serious OS has been around for what, 10 years ?
It's been serious for the 19 years i've been using it - compared to whatever version of Windows was current at the time, at least. It's been the web server of choice almost as long as the web's been in existence.
Yet almost no one uses it. At some point, you have to say, the market has spoken.
It would be more accurate to say that the billions of dollars put into promoting Windows have spoken. That and the cartel like arrangements Microsoft has had with hardware manufacturers. Virtually no money's been put into promoting Linux, but a lot of people still use it.
In 1979 i was working for Reuters, the press agency, in London. Back in those days, Fleet Street was adopting "new technology" and people were losing their jobs as a result. Reuters had an agreement with the unions to train 4 people a year as computer programmers and i managed to get onto that scheme. We were trained in-house, with a 5 month training scheme, working from 9.30 till 4.30, with an hour and a half for lunch, on full pay! On that course, we were taught programming using PDP-8 assembly language. As far as i remember, it was entirely done on paper and i don't think we ever actually ran anything on a computer during the course. The only thing i remember about it is PDP-8s used octal.
After the training course, i moved in to a programming job with Reuters - writing and maintaining software for some of Reuters old Ultronics SGS computers - using IBM 360 assembly language, doing the development on a 370. Booting up the SGS consisted of toggling in the paper tape reader bootloader, using the front panel switches, then running that to read in the card reader bootloader from 8 hole paper tape, then running that to read in the o/s from a pile of 80-column punched cards. We debugged stuff via the front panel, changing an instruction into a jump to some free space at the end of RAM and then toggling in bits of program there, followed by a jump back to where we'd come from.
That depends where you're travelling to. Pretty much everywhere i've been in recent years has ATMs. A couple of different cards (one Visa, one Mastercard, maybe), in case one stops working, and maybe a small amount of cash just in case, should be plenty. Carrying cash and travellers' checks is a pain in the arse and it's asking for trouble. But find out about ATMs in the country you're going to next before you go there (not hard).
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Yep, if you really must use obsolete units, post a translation alongside - e.g., "310mph (500km/h)". You're writing for nerds, not your confused grandparents!
My best friend's a sponge - we share 70% of the same genes.
Or, in Chrome, open a new tab and in the right hand side bottom corner there's a link that says "recently closed". It doesn't get much easier than that!
Even if anarchy was attainable in this universe, it would be unworkable - as it would require every member of the population to spend 25 hours a day in meetings, trying to agree on how to run the world.
Don't forget Murdoch tried keeping up with the times and failed dismally - he bought MySpace, which he later sold at a massive loss. He's totally incapable of getting to grips with the modern world.
However, the issue here is that the NBN will compete with his Foxtel cable TV network - making the result of a big of capital investment totally redundant. So business opportunities don't really come into it.
Not disputing what you say, but video disks were around in the early 80s. When i was working (as a games programmer) for Thorn EMI in London in 1982, they were working on interactive video disks. These were 10 inch disks as far as i remember.
CUPS didn't even exist in 1993! It was lpd back then. I don't remember when CUPS first popped up in RedHat or whatever i was using at the time, but it was as long time after 1993.
[......] here is a legitimate small business trying to stay alive and instead of the usual "Just accept getting ripped off, information wants to be free!" bullshit instead there is actual discussion on how best to protect his content while still giving the customers a good experience.
Maybe. But whether or not information wants to be free, the crucial question to ask is "is piracy actually costing me anything?" The stupid assumption made by the music and film industry is that every pirated copy is one copy less that they'll sell - which is clearly nonsense. Just because someone takes something that is available for free doesn't mean they'd pay for it if it wasn't. I'm sure the vast majority of people who read / listen to / watch pirated material would never have paid for it anyway, they would have been doing something else for free instead.
So unless you can prove that the people who are reading the pirated version of the magazine are people who would have bought it if it hadn't been pirated (which is mostly pretty unlikely), then it's a complete waste of time and money trying to fix something that isn't really a problem. It would be much more productive to put those resources into building up the paying customer base.
The IRA was directly about Catholicism vs Protestantism - in particular a group of people who were no longer part of Britain wanting to impose *their* will on a part of Ireland that had a different majority religion and wanted to stay part of Britain.
It's not really about religion at all - the catholics and the protestants are different ethnic groups - the protestants were imported into Ireland from Scotland by the British, deliberately to cause trouble there
But you're completely wrong about the geography. No part of Ireland has never been a part of Britain (not within recent geological time, anyway). "Britain" is the name of the island that contains England, Wales, and Scotland ("Great Britain" is just a pompous contraction of "Greater Britain", which is the island of Britain and all the little islands around it - not including the island of Ireland and its little islands). The six counties of Northern Ireland are part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I assume (but don't know) that before the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland gained independence from London, that was called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
What part of the term "HyperTEXT" did the working group fail to understand?
HyperText Transfer Protocol = a protocol for transferring hypertext. The protocol is not the hypertext - documents marked up with HyperText Markup Language are the hypertext. The protocol is just used for transferring them.
[......] then there's no such thing as a workable management structure.
They're certainly very few and far between. There's probably about as much chance of finding one as there is of finding an alien civilization.
Weblogging??? Did i fall into a timewarp and end up back in the 1990s or something?
If you are just doing static HTML pages with no server side scripting or database......
...... you should probably get back in your time machine and go back to the 1990s where you came from!
They didn't need to - they knew you'd do their work for them!
It's like saying "the Atlantic Ocean of Madeira".
Linux as a serious OS has been around for what, 10 years ?
It's been serious for the 19 years i've been using it - compared to whatever version of Windows was current at the time, at least. It's been the web server of choice almost as long as the web's been in existence.
Yet almost no one uses it.
At some point, you have to say, the market has spoken.
It would be more accurate to say that the billions of dollars put into promoting Windows have spoken. That and the cartel like arrangements Microsoft has had with hardware manufacturers. Virtually no money's been put into promoting Linux, but a lot of people still use it.
Out of curiosity, what are the programs you use at home that don't exist for Linux?
The same thing that's kept me off Windows since 1995 - Linux is better.
In 1979 i was working for Reuters, the press agency, in London. Back in those days, Fleet Street was adopting "new technology" and people were losing their jobs as a result. Reuters had an agreement with the unions to train 4 people a year as computer programmers and i managed to get onto that scheme. We were trained in-house, with a 5 month training scheme, working from 9.30 till 4.30, with an hour and a half for lunch, on full pay! On that course, we were taught programming using PDP-8 assembly language. As far as i remember, it was entirely done on paper and i don't think we ever actually ran anything on a computer during the course. The only thing i remember about it is PDP-8s used octal.
After the training course, i moved in to a programming job with Reuters - writing and maintaining software for some of Reuters old Ultronics SGS computers - using IBM 360 assembly language, doing the development on a 370. Booting up the SGS consisted of toggling in the paper tape reader bootloader, using the front panel switches, then running that to read in the card reader bootloader from 8 hole paper tape, then running that to read in the o/s from a pile of 80-column punched cards. We debugged stuff via the front panel, changing an instruction into a jump to some free space at the end of RAM and then toggling in bits of program there, followed by a jump back to where we'd come from.
Don't worry about the details, just do it. You'll work it out as you go along.
Travelers Checks and cash for many countries.
That depends where you're travelling to. Pretty much everywhere i've been in recent years has ATMs. A couple of different cards (one Visa, one Mastercard, maybe), in case one stops working, and maybe a small amount of cash just in case, should be plenty. Carrying cash and travellers' checks is a pain in the arse and it's asking for trouble. But find out about ATMs in the country you're going to next before you go there (not hard).
Wtf has data mining got to do with this discussion???
I dunno what you've been smoking, but i want some!
Yeah, i probably didn't phrase my original post as clearly as i could have done!
Having taken some of the tests I can say that the results can be quite surprising and point out biases that you are unaware of.
But in this case were they unaware of their biases or just not prepared to admit to them?