Once you agree, online or in writing, to allow anybody to take funds from your account there is nothing you can do to control them but close the bank account.
Why in the world you would you ever agree, online or in writing, to allow anybody to take funds from your account?
What's wrong with "If you want my money, send me a bill and I'll give you a cheque."
By anyone's logic, MS-DOS 6.2 is more secure than Win2003.
MS-DOS is a small kernel with a simple single-tasking program loader, limited number of more-or-less independent programs that "do stuff", and very limited communication abilities.
Windows, on the other hand, is a colossal set of interdependent programs, libraries and ghawd-knows-what-else, that can interact with each other in so many ways, in parallel, and at such great speed that nobody can possibly claim to completely understand how it works. Plus it is designed with advanced communication abilities.
Someone once described modern Windows as a giant hairball; that seems accurate to me.
I personally enjoy tough-guy detective stories (Phillip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Nick Carter), good westerns (Gunsmoke, All Star Western Theatre, Luke Slaughter) and other detective stuff like Night Beat and Box 13.
You can't beat old time radio plays for story quality and creative writing styles. I think it's largely because they couldn't go for the "easy out" then; no sex, swearing or excessive violence. That eliminates a lot of the "easy thrills", so to speak. Therefore they (everyone involved in the production) had to work harder to make a good story. I get a real kick out of the writing in some of the plays. "I tore the bar's door open. It was a liquor license with chairs." That gives you a real mental image, and you won't find that kind of creative dialogue in a movie today.
Modern movies can go for the cheap thrill, and they can use visuals to make up for weak or "stock" dialogue. Radio plays can't use either so they have to be strong in what they can do within the medium, i.e. create a mood using words and music and tell a good story that's sufficient to keep the audience entertained for a half-hour or an hour. It can't have been an easy task. People like me take full advantage of the results, of course.
Westerns, detective stories, science fiction, comedy, you-name-it. Back before TV existed, radio was it, and a huge amount of quality drama was made for radio broadcast.
There are many binary newsgroups where oldtime radio is posted and it won't take you many days to download enough material to keep you listening for several years.
Safety film (basically any film manufactured since the early 1960's) shouldn't catch fire. Melt, yes. Burn, no.
Nitrate-based film used to be extremely hazardous. That's why old theatres have asbestos-and-steel lined projection rooms with fire shutters. Newer acetate- (and, now, polyester-)based film won't burn.
Movies generally occupy between five and eight reels, and the whole thing (including the cases) weighs between 40 to 100 pounds. This varies depending on whether the actual reels are made of plastic or metal, and the construction of the cases (most are metal, some - Fox - are plastic, but there is a large variation in the weight of various metal cans.)
There is no way that single reel of film weighs anywhere near 35 pounds.
I heard a story once about a guy who owned both an indoor theatre and a drive-in in the same area. He got one print and played it in his indoor theatre; the drive-in movie started an hour or two later so after the first half of the movie in the indoor theatre was over, he rushed that half quickly across town to the drive-in, then rushed the last half over after the film was completed at the indoor theatre.
Heavens t'Murgatroyd, as Snagglepus would say. Gross?
What about self-employed people like, say, the corner store where he may take in thousands every month but pay 90% of it back out again in wages for his employees, cost of goods, and so on. His gross may be hundreds of thousands a year; his net might be ten or twenty thousand.
Rewriting a product in a new language from existing code costs very little, and rewriting from the design document (you DO have an accurate design document, right?), also costs very little,
Pardon me? What is this "existing code" and "design document" of which you speak?
In many situations, all you have is an executable. Nobody who wrote the original software is around any more. The software works fine, and should continue to do so.
Apply this to the forty-thousand "little things" that have been written on the spur of the moment across the company and have subsequently become depended-upon parts of the IT infrastructure.
When I was a fairly little kid, maybe 35 or 40 years ago, I remember being in some kind of a shopping mall where there was a huge do-nothing machine set up on display. A man was madly pedaling a bicycle and apparently powering everything else there. Doors were opening and closing, a bird cage was moving up and down, an umbrella was opening and closing and doing something else, and you-name-it. All kinds of junk and gears and bits-and-pieces moving and spinning and going "whir" and "buzz" and "chirp", madly working away accomplishing absolutely nothing. The whole thing impressed the hell out of me at the time (and made a lasting impression, obviously) but I've never seen anything like it since then. I remember the machine seeming huge at the time; in hindsight I suspect it might have been about 6 or 7 feet by 15 or 20 feet by 7 or 8 feet high.
The best energy-saving (and water-saving) dishwasher is washing your dishes by hand with a good dish detergent like Sunlight. Done properly, your dishes will come out cleaner too.
Believe it or not, one of the toughest light bulbs for applications where things vibrate (ceiling fans, garage door openers, outdoor security lights, etc.) are appliance bulbs made for refrigerators. They will last where a regular rough service (trouble light) bulb won't.
why would he possibly think it's a good thing to prevent them from suing the people who hurt them?
While I'm not sure I agree with this logic, is it possible that the answer to your question is simply that any treatment is better than none.
I have read about obstreticians that refuse to practice in some locations because of the lawsuit-happy climate; what is a pregnant woman to do when she lives in one of those places?
If the practice of medicine becomes too dangerous to doctors' financial futures, then they will leave or enter another line of work. Would you like to be the one to turn out the lights at your local hospital, perhaps the last one in your state?
If you've been duly convicted by a court of law, that IS due process.
What about if you haven't been "duly convicted"?
"Excuse me sir, Miss So-and-So (who you have never heard of up until right this minute) says that you're bothering her. Here is your copy of the restraining order and your tracking device. We'll just install that right now and off you go. Have a good day!"
I don't have a lot of money, I don't want a lot of money, but I am not going to denegrade those who do want or have it.
I agree completely.
I don't have a lot of money myself, but I have my own small business that's not so big that it requires that I give up everything else to keep it going. That business generates enough money to live on. And I have sufficient "free time" to pursue my other interests and things that I enjoy (like reading Slashdot.) I have no "boss" to answer to; my boss is me.
I might not have a million dollars, and I have pretty much no prospect of ever having a million dollars. But I don't need that million, and I don't need a tropical vacation or three weeks in Florida either, because I also enjoy my job and the idea of a vacation is kind of foreign to me -- I work 7 nights per week doing a job that I enjoy. And I like it that way. I have two nights per year off, and really would rather not because I don't have anything in particular to do during those two nights other than a bit of painting.
I guess that I live something that is as close to a stress-free life as is possible in the real world. That suits me fine; up until 1995 things were entirely different and I was always on high alert when doing what was my job at that time (a form of law enforcement). Now, I don't have to worry about any of that. If it's beyond my four walls, it's someone else's problem. And I like it that way.
The smartest thing I ever did was to drop out of the rat race and set up shop independently, doing a job that I like to do, using a skill or a trade that I think of as fun, and not at all hard to do.
I make half of the money that I used to, literally. Maybe a bit less than that. Apparently, I live below the official poverty line now.
Does it matter? Not really. I live as I choose, and I do what I wish. My life is my own, and I pursue the interests that I choose to pursue.
my parents used to believe for years it was harmful for the computer to be turned off if they were in a directory other than C:\,
They probably misunderstood someone telling them that they should park their hard drive before turning the machine off.
For the "youngsters" here, you used to have to run a special drive parking program that would move the read head to an un-used part of the platter so the head would not damage the platter when it was turned off. Some hard drives would emit a short blast of write current when they were turned back on and if you didn't park the drive you could damage your data.
This is back in the days of 5m, 10mb and 20mb MFM hard drives on IBM XT's, of course.
Pardon me? I live in a climate where we have snow and ice on the roads in the winter. Police here drive SUV's (I head that they just got some Hummers, but haven't seen one on the road yet), and we even have an ambulance that runs on tank tracks for use in blizzards and other emergencies.
If you want to get anywhere here safely in the winter, a SUV or 4-wheel drive of some kind is pretty much the only way to go.
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Not on an ongoing or unlimited basis. X amount of dollars, one time only.
Once you agree, online or in writing, to allow anybody to take funds from your account there is nothing you can do to control them but close the bank account.
Why in the world you would you ever agree, online or in writing, to allow anybody to take funds from your account?
What's wrong with "If you want my money, send me a bill and I'll give you a cheque."
By anyone's logic, MS-DOS 6.2 is more secure than Win2003.
MS-DOS is a small kernel with a simple single-tasking program loader, limited number of more-or-less independent programs that "do stuff", and very limited communication abilities.
Windows, on the other hand, is a colossal set of interdependent programs, libraries and ghawd-knows-what-else, that can interact with each other in so many ways, in parallel, and at such great speed that nobody can possibly claim to completely understand how it works. Plus it is designed with advanced communication abilities.
Someone once described modern Windows as a giant hairball; that seems accurate to me.
I personally enjoy tough-guy detective stories (Phillip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Nick Carter), good westerns (Gunsmoke, All Star Western Theatre, Luke Slaughter) and other detective stuff like Night Beat and Box 13.
You can't beat old time radio plays for story quality and creative writing styles. I think it's largely because they couldn't go for the "easy out" then; no sex, swearing or excessive violence. That eliminates a lot of the "easy thrills", so to speak. Therefore they (everyone involved in the production) had to work harder to make a good story. I get a real kick out of the writing in some of the plays. "I tore the bar's door open. It was a liquor license with chairs." That gives you a real mental image, and you won't find that kind of creative dialogue in a movie today.
Modern movies can go for the cheap thrill, and they can use visuals to make up for weak or "stock" dialogue. Radio plays can't use either so they have to be strong in what they can do within the medium, i.e. create a mood using words and music and tell a good story that's sufficient to keep the audience entertained for a half-hour or an hour. It can't have been an easy task. People like me take full advantage of the results, of course.
Westerns, detective stories, science fiction, comedy, you-name-it. Back before TV existed, radio was it, and a huge amount of quality drama was made for radio broadcast.
There are many binary newsgroups where oldtime radio is posted and it won't take you many days to download enough material to keep you listening for several years.
A lot of old time radio is amazingly good.
Will this reduce projector room fires?
Safety film (basically any film manufactured since the early 1960's) shouldn't catch fire. Melt, yes. Burn, no.
Nitrate-based film used to be extremely hazardous. That's why old theatres have asbestos-and-steel lined projection rooms with fire shutters. Newer acetate- (and, now, polyester-)based film won't burn.
35 pounds per 20-minute reel of 35 mm film!
Pardon me?
Movies generally occupy between five and eight reels, and the whole thing (including the cases) weighs between 40 to 100 pounds. This varies depending on whether the actual reels are made of plastic or metal, and the construction of the cases (most are metal, some - Fox - are plastic, but there is a large variation in the weight of various metal cans.)
There is no way that single reel of film weighs anywhere near 35 pounds.
I heard a story once about a guy who owned both an indoor theatre and a drive-in in the same area. He got one print and played it in his indoor theatre; the drive-in movie started an hour or two later so after the first half of the movie in the indoor theatre was over, he rushed that half quickly across town to the drive-in, then rushed the last half over after the film was completed at the indoor theatre.
And the fines are based on gross income.
Gross income?
Heavens t'Murgatroyd, as Snagglepus would say. Gross?
What about self-employed people like, say, the corner store where he may take in thousands every month but pay 90% of it back out again in wages for his employees, cost of goods, and so on. His gross may be hundreds of thousands a year; his net might be ten or twenty thousand.
Are you sure it's based on gross income?
A real programmer should be able to pick up a new language in two weeks, and the basic libraries in a couple of months
Give me a comprehensive manual, a project of reasonable scope, and go away and don't bug me.
And yes, it really does work that way. For me, anyway.
Rewriting a product in a new language from existing code costs very little, and rewriting from the design document (you DO have an accurate design document, right?), also costs very little,
Pardon me? What is this "existing code" and "design document" of which you speak?
In many situations, all you have is an executable. Nobody who wrote the original software is around any more. The software works fine, and should continue to do so.
Apply this to the forty-thousand "little things" that have been written on the spur of the moment across the company and have subsequently become depended-upon parts of the IT infrastructure.
When I was a fairly little kid, maybe 35 or 40 years ago, I remember being in some kind of a shopping mall where there was a huge do-nothing machine set up on display. A man was madly pedaling a bicycle and apparently powering everything else there. Doors were opening and closing, a bird cage was moving up and down, an umbrella was opening and closing and doing something else, and you-name-it. All kinds of junk and gears and bits-and-pieces moving and spinning and going "whir" and "buzz" and "chirp", madly working away accomplishing absolutely nothing. The whole thing impressed the hell out of me at the time (and made a lasting impression, obviously) but I've never seen anything like it since then. I remember the machine seeming huge at the time; in hindsight I suspect it might have been about 6 or 7 feet by 15 or 20 feet by 7 or 8 feet high.
Has anyone else ever seen one of these anywhere?
These materials include multi-page booklets, flashy flyers, membership cards, event tickets and programmes, and more.
You sound like an excellent candidate to be using Scribus.
It's a full-featured DTP application that seems to improve almost daily. Friends of mine use it to produce two newspapers, among other things.
I just got an energy saving dishwasher, too.
The best energy-saving (and water-saving) dishwasher is washing your dishes by hand with a good dish detergent like Sunlight. Done properly, your dishes will come out cleaner too.
100 monitors for 16+ hours is going to save on the electric bill too.
Not much if the monitors support DPMS.
Believe it or not, one of the toughest light bulbs for applications where things vibrate (ceiling fans, garage door openers, outdoor security lights, etc.) are appliance bulbs made for refrigerators. They will last where a regular rough service (trouble light) bulb won't.
If you see a dangerous/drunk driver,
Just exactly how is that not a life-threatening emergency?
why would he possibly think it's a good thing to prevent them from suing the people who hurt them?
While I'm not sure I agree with this logic, is it possible that the answer to your question is simply that any treatment is better than none.
I have read about obstreticians that refuse to practice in some locations because of the lawsuit-happy climate; what is a pregnant woman to do when she lives in one of those places?
If the practice of medicine becomes too dangerous to doctors' financial futures, then they will leave or enter another line of work. Would you like to be the one to turn out the lights at your local hospital, perhaps the last one in your state?
I'd like to know where they are hiding those 4000 developers, myself.
Garden gnomes sitting on a C manual?
If you've been duly convicted by a court of law, that IS due process.
What about if you haven't been "duly convicted"?
"Excuse me sir, Miss So-and-So (who you have never heard of up until right this minute) says that you're bothering her. Here is your copy of the restraining order and your tracking device. We'll just install that right now and off you go. Have a good day!"
I don't have a lot of money, I don't want a lot of money, but I am not going to denegrade those who do want or have it.
I agree completely.
I don't have a lot of money myself, but I have my own small business that's not so big that it requires that I give up everything else to keep it going. That business generates enough money to live on. And I have sufficient "free time" to pursue my other interests and things that I enjoy (like reading Slashdot.) I have no "boss" to answer to; my boss is me.
I might not have a million dollars, and I have pretty much no prospect of ever having a million dollars. But I don't need that million, and I don't need a tropical vacation or three weeks in Florida either, because I also enjoy my job and the idea of a vacation is kind of foreign to me -- I work 7 nights per week doing a job that I enjoy. And I like it that way. I have two nights per year off, and really would rather not because I don't have anything in particular to do during those two nights other than a bit of painting.
I guess that I live something that is as close to a stress-free life as is possible in the real world. That suits me fine; up until 1995 things were entirely different and I was always on high alert when doing what was my job at that time (a form of law enforcement). Now, I don't have to worry about any of that. If it's beyond my four walls, it's someone else's problem. And I like it that way.
The smartest thing I ever did was to drop out of the rat race and set up shop independently, doing a job that I like to do, using a skill or a trade that I think of as fun, and not at all hard to do.
I make half of the money that I used to, literally. Maybe a bit less than that. Apparently, I live below the official poverty line now.
Does it matter? Not really. I live as I choose, and I do what I wish. My life is my own, and I pursue the interests that I choose to pursue.
Have you looked at Gambas? It appears to be a reasonable solution for a VB programmer on Linux.
my parents used to believe for years it was harmful for the computer to be turned off if they were in a directory other than C:\,
They probably misunderstood someone telling them that they should park their hard drive before turning the machine off.
For the "youngsters" here, you used to have to run a special drive parking program that would move the read head to an un-used part of the platter so the head would not damage the platter when it was turned off. Some hard drives would emit a short blast of write current when they were turned back on and if you didn't park the drive you could damage your data.
This is back in the days of 5m, 10mb and 20mb MFM hard drives on IBM XT's, of course.
There is no legitimate needs whatsoever for SUVs.
Pardon me? I live in a climate where we have snow and ice on the roads in the winter. Police here drive SUV's (I head that they just got some Hummers, but haven't seen one on the road yet), and we even have an ambulance that runs on tank tracks for use in blizzards and other emergencies.
If you want to get anywhere here safely in the winter, a SUV or 4-wheel drive of some kind is pretty much the only way to go.
For vector... no idea.