For example, when I bought my laptop, I chose some specs, and then looked at various manufacturers to find the cheapest price. No manufacturer sold a model with those specs without Windows preinstalled.
You obviously need to move to Serbia. A colleague was telling me last month that it's barely possible to buy a laptop there with an OS installed other than FreeDOS. As an additional service, most computing shops will provide you with a back-up copy of some other OS install disc for a nominal fee. . (I didn't bother to enquire what brand his laptop was - they're all identikits made in the same Chinese and Taiwanese factories.) You don't want to move to Serbia? (Or Serbia won't allow you in.) Well, you're short of luck then.
Languages may evolve, but evolution through ignorance and stupidity is hardly evolution at all; the words exist with their entirely different meanings for a reason: to convey an idea to another party. If that idea ends up being open to interpretation due to the use of ambiguous words, odds are you have failed to convey your idea entirely.
If all governments and organizations and institutions adopted open source, there would be either a) everything anyone needed or b) hardly any work to do to improve some open source software to meet someone's needs. So no, I don't agree, because open source means communicating and working together, and even a dinky independent one-horse-town government could work alongside a much bigger community on a project.
This would be true if and only if everyone who wished to get involved in politics was also at least moderately skilled as an information analyst (I choose my words carefully - I'm looking to express both "interested in" and "capable of describing" information management problems, not the rather different question of "capable of developing a solution"). From the politicians I know personally, one is reasonably au fait with IT, though an accountant not a programmer, one is a petrol head, and one is now retired and asks my father (a plastics chemist) for help when his computer goes wrong. Not one of them could do something more substantial than write down what the problem is, and none (repeat : NONE) have time, energy or inclination to get involved with an online community of any sort. Of the ones who know what a BeBook or FaceBo account is, I'm not aware of any who actually have one. Working an 80-hour week does that for people. Besides, in my original comment, I don't believe that I made any mention of the solutions provided by consultants being "closed source" in any way, shape, or form. All of the above noted politicians understand the meaning of "open source", with the significance of "source code" being "how the tool to do the task is made and how it works" ; I like to think that they'd not fall for a consultant who didn't include in the contract that they (or rather, the body they represent) would have full copyright and control of the consultant's solution. I like to think that some of that is due to my having educated them, but in at least one case the politician has worked as a consultant himself (not in IT) and knows how to lock customers in, sell old rope a seventh time, etc.
Your counsel of perfection is simply not relevant in this imperfect world.
Apparently, they've figured out that nobody wants to risk damaging their car by running over half a dozen dogs.
I saw photos of a car belonging to a friend's father - as part of his car sales business - which had been wrapped around a cow. "Wrapped around" is a local euphemism, but here it was pretty accurate. 1 tonne of cow versus 3/4 tonne of car makes for a rather messy scene. (The crash scene was a winding country road and the cow didn't have any lights on, so the police didn't investigate little things like, was the driver speeding (yes), pissed out of his tiny skull (yes), driving the car with the owner's permission (no, the owner being the business, strictly speaking), insured (well...). Equally, since the farmer lost several hundreds of pounds worth of cow, they didn't give him too much trouble about not keeping his fences secure. Then again, since everyone involved was a FreeMason...)
Not true. Though other people's comments about companies being required to hire locally if possible (exactly the same as the States, I believe) are also true.
One of my class mates from Uni has recently - couple of years ago - escaped from Houston and is now working in Rijkswijk for Shell. OK, by that point he'd got the thick end of 20 years experience in his field, making it reasonably easy for him to fulfil the "highly-skilled migrant" criteria (I assume that the Cloggies have a similar scheme to the UK ; I'll ask Jim next time he's in the UK).
So, your easy way in is by being highly skilled.
Of course, it's easy to get in as a tourist. That's a good route to plan 'B', which is to establish a relationship with a local. But don't say that if you're applying for a visa! And don't think about coming as a tourist, finding a job, and staying ; most countries (the different countries have similar but not identical systems) require you to apply for a settlement visa at their embassy in your home country. It's better to be up-front about these things, and a marriage certificate won't protect you against deportation as an illegal immigrant.
Basically, the super-wealthy here have convinced the lower-middle class that they're on the same side, and that what is good for the new nobility is good for Joe the Plumber. This isn't too hard, because Joe the Plumber is a moron.
Maybe a touch harsh on Joe - which reminds me to call the plumber myself! - but I can see why you're wanting to leave.
Contact me offline and I'll see if I can give more personalised information.
... start sending copies of the New York Post and Washington Times (to name two random US newspapers) to their friends across the water. "Pour encourager les autres" (to misquote Voltaire and to annoy the recent poster who wanted all "foreign" messages to be filtered.)
I'd like to start by not getting any foreign email.
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Also, there are nearly no roadkills in the cities. Unlike along the country roads.
You live inland? No, seriously.
I'm in a coastal town which has been here for in excess of a thousand years, but the streets of the whole town (not just the harbour area) are still littered with the flattened remains of seagulls.
Why? this is a public forum, not a private amusing discussion.
You seemed to misunderstand my previous post, so I'll spell it out : hot dry weather, or hot wet weather, or cold dry or cold wet weather are pretty irrelevant to me, and I've worked from +48C (whatever that is in F? 118.4F or so) in the desert to -10C (14F), between the Gulf deserts and Norway. But for pleasure I've travelled between places from +25C (77F) to -30C (-22F). 'Hot' is something people have to pay me to go to. In contrast, I gather from the holiday adverts that some people find 'hot' attractive, Bog alone knows why.
You'd have to pay me more to travel to Texas than you would to travel to Saudi, because I've known more people who've been killed in Texas than have been killed in Saudi. That's simple economics, since I put a non-zero value on my life.
It is sex education. It might need to be pitched at a basic level, but it's plain boring sex education. Which you can leave to anonymous adults in the school, or to equally anonymous children in the playground (probably setting themselves up for various kiddy-fiddling charges in the process), or you can choose to do the job yourself. What isn't an option is the children not getting answers from somewhere, because their bullshit-detectors will start to flash red if they don't believe your answers and they'll go and find some others.
it's really a pretty nice place, [...] mind weeks in a row in the summer where it's dry and the temperature is over 100 (Fahrenheit).
I think that you might benefit from learning the phrase "contradiction in terms".
I know all about 100F and negligible humidity, thank you ; my fees start at £450/day, be that in the field or in what is laughingly called civilisation. Given that it's America, not Saudi or the rest of The Gulf, I could probably be persuaded to not laugh at proposals of less than £600/day, but that's not an explicit or explicit acceptance of contract until I see the details. On one hand, enough people get killed by the natives there, but on the other hand, you do have interesting pore pressure situations.
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Punishing the child for having stupid parents. Yep, as expected. I think it's mandatory at several points in the Bible, going as far as punishing the great-great-great-great-grandchildren for the sins of the great-great-great-great-grandparents .
you "live", or do you merely exist. (Which reminds me to drop an email to my former classmate, a Houston escapee now in the land of the Clogs. See if he's coming over to Scotland some time soon.)
a 'fundamentalist' view would be pretty clear that charging interest is strictly forbidden,
So, what you're saying is that [Christian] fundamentalists are (in this respect) indistinguishable from strict Muslims. Well, that is just so unexpected. Sing that song at your choir meeting in Godsville and you'll have the pointy-hat brigade burning crosses on your lawn before the night is out. Enjoy the love that religion thrives on.
Not likely vat grown human will be a legal food source.
If there's some reasoning behind this statement then I'd like to hear it (or even, to read it).
I have moderate grounds for concern about whether it'd be sensible to mass produce "Long Pig" ("Soylent Pink" to raise another popular SlashDot meme) ; whether my concerns are well-founded I'd leave to the biologists since fossils are more my area of expertise. I'd be concerned that any micro-organism that colonised the Long Pig vats successfully would also be in prime condition for colonising live human. And that raises all sorts of potentially ugly public health implications. Also, how much of an immune system would you have to grow in the vats? A nervous net sufficient to exercise the muscle wouldn't necessarily raise any more ethical concerns than changing a fuse in the slicing machine.
For legal concerns... whose law would apply? Even if your law banned "charcuterie longue", others may not. So all your ban would succeed in would be to promote either smuggling or tourism, both activities with a high profit margin. Prohibition of retail ethanol sale was such a success, wasn't it?
Is Long Pig a taboo meat? Speaking as an ex- animal-rights activist (through laziness, not change of conviction), I find it no more repugnant as an idea than cow meat, horse meat, guinea pig meat, coney, or whale meat. The only reason that I've not (yet) tried hippophagy is that the opportunity hasn't presented itself. Ditto for the guinea pigs. 'Flopsy' the bunny wabbit went into the stew while her son 'Point' (for his chocolate nose tip and bootees) went into a pie if I recall their fates correctly. When my old friend's flea-bitten grey cart-horse half breed brute is for the knacker, I'll get a recipe book to celebrate the event. Well, maybe not - books might not exist except as downloads by then (the beast could easily have another 20 years on his oversized laminitis'd hooves!).
Whale would pose me more problems - from the live animal. From the vats? Whale steak for me! Douglas Adams knew how to illuminate woolly thinking and hypocrisy when he wrote the "Let's Meet the Meat" scene in The Restaurant at The End of The Universe.
Long pig? I have some modest proposals for recipes here from Dean Swift ; baby fricassee sounds nice.
Even if there are no viral/prion concerns, it'll never happen; at least not in the US.
And how is this of relevance to the rest of SlashDot?
As for the guy who declines to LTT75MFA... some of us like audiobooks and the like, considering them time better spent than listening to the radio in the traffic jams. Be downloading once I've finished typing this comment.
What a sad, but true, statement. Conventional English uses the phrase "thede facto standard", and your rephrasing encompasses such a sad truth - while there is a de jure standard (HTML5), there are attempts to contaminate that simple scenario by the introduction of other protocols which aspire to be standards and to replace the de jure standard. A Freudian slit, or a deliberate pun?
I don't like companies that want you to use your OWN money for traveling and training up front then get reimbursed.
In 25 years and seven companies, I've never seen it any other way, for travel expenses at least.
For travel expenses... well I'll admit to buying a bus ticket when I'm going to the office or to visit a client and then claiming it back, and taxis to and from the airport. But anything more substantial, i.e. flights... well I'd have to find out where and how to buy a flight. I gather it's not as simple as waling up to the airport (or taking the bus) and buying a ticket, because there's the difficulty of finding out how to get to wherever it is I've got to get, who does flights there etc. All of which is what we've got secretaries for. I had to buy flights for a holiday this year. It took weeks to find out what we needed to know, and a thoroughly discouraging experience it was too. Definitely what secretaries are for.
MS Office 2007 has a new Ribbon Interface? Move to OpenOffice. It's Free!...... OpenOffice has a new Ribbon Interface!!?? and it is not optional Now what?
I've still got an installer for the non-ribbon OO.o ; do you need a copy?
Sounds like someone who hasn't used the ribbon. It was extremely easy to find what you needed to do, and often allows you to do the same thing in less clicks than before.
This might be true, but somehow I doubt it. Almost all operations I perform in at most zero clicks (of the mouse - the keyboard does click, sort of, but I don't think that's what you mean by "click"). So, if the ribbon can give me clicks back - maybe it makes the mouse jump around, or flip from the left hand side of the keyboard to where day-shift keep it on the right? Or do I have a "click-bank" somewhere where I can store clicks to be used in a later activity where a mouse is a necessity? There are some applications where using a mouse is a necessity - image editing programs being a prime example - but word processing is almost the perfect anti-example. You want to keep your fingers on the keyboard, doing what you're being paid to do - type ; when you need to modify something, you need to bring up the commands to do it without distracting yourself by removing your fingers from the keyboard, reaching behind the screen, picking up the mouse, clearing enough desk space (if there is enough space ; if not, find a clipboard or reference book), putting the mouse down, orienting yourself on screen to find the pointer, then getting the pointer to wherever it's needed. And people say Alt+O, C, {first character of the desired font name}, {appropriate number of up/down cursor strokes}, TAB, TAB, type font size desired,{Enter} is difficult! Almost as difficult as Ctrl+1.
The installation should have had a single checkbox that said "Use Classic Interface" and that be the end of it.
NOT in the installer, please! how many people install these things? Our works machines come with them pre-installed, and after putting on our other required software, IT Ghost the drives and solve configuration foul-ups by re-Ghosting back onto the machine. So we never see the installer at work. Put this in an environment where about half the machines are set up for metric and half for imperial ; some think they're in America and some in Britain ; some have Serbian additions, some Russian, some Bosnian... checking the configuration of a machine before Ghosting it is not carefully done.
If there were to be such a "fuck off, Ribbon" button, it should be no harder to find than the one for turning off that stupid "variable menu contents" thing they tried a couple of versions ago.
Or using any of the commercial products used to kill bugs without destroying their shape.
They address this point somewhat in the paper which TFA abstracts:
Traditional approaches rely on splitting concretions and studying the portion of the fossil thus revealed; morphological data recovery is typically incomplete. In arachnids, for example, the hydraulically extended legs (Parry & Brown 1959) curl underneath the body after death owing to the absence of haemolymph pressure and their distal ends are typically hidden within the matrix in three-dimensionally preserved fossils.
I'm relatively impressed by the 2000x2000 pixel X-ray detector used, and the deduced 15-25micrometre voxel size. TFP also mentions that Eophrynus more resembles "harvestmen" (I don't know foreign terms for these arachnids). Sutton and crew have been doing some sterling work on the microstructure of fossils over the last few years.
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You obviously need to move to Serbia. A colleague was telling me last month that it's barely possible to buy a laptop there with an OS installed other than FreeDOS. As an additional service, most computing shops will provide you with a back-up copy of some other OS install disc for a nominal fee. . (I didn't bother to enquire what brand his laptop was - they're all identikits made in the same Chinese and Taiwanese factories.)
You don't want to move to Serbia? (Or Serbia won't allow you in.) Well, you're short of luck then.
Are you some sort of anti-homophone pervert?
This would be true if and only if everyone who wished to get involved in politics was also at least moderately skilled as an information analyst (I choose my words carefully - I'm looking to express both "interested in" and "capable of describing" information management problems, not the rather different question of "capable of developing a solution"). From the politicians I know personally, one is reasonably au fait with IT, though an accountant not a programmer, one is a petrol head, and one is now retired and asks my father (a plastics chemist) for help when his computer goes wrong. Not one of them could do something more substantial than write down what the problem is, and none (repeat : NONE) have time, energy or inclination to get involved with an online community of any sort. Of the ones who know what a BeBook or FaceBo account is, I'm not aware of any who actually have one. Working an 80-hour week does that for people.
Besides, in my original comment, I don't believe that I made any mention of the solutions provided by consultants being "closed source" in any way, shape, or form. All of the above noted politicians understand the meaning of "open source", with the significance of "source code" being "how the tool to do the task is made and how it works" ; I like to think that they'd not fall for a consultant who didn't include in the contract that they (or rather, the body they represent) would have full copyright and control of the consultant's solution. I like to think that some of that is due to my having educated them, but in at least one case the politician has worked as a consultant himself (not in IT) and knows how to lock customers in, sell old rope a seventh time, etc.
Your counsel of perfection is simply not relevant in this imperfect world.
I saw photos of a car belonging to a friend's father - as part of his car sales business - which had been wrapped around a cow. "Wrapped around" is a local euphemism, but here it was pretty accurate. 1 tonne of cow versus 3/4 tonne of car makes for a rather messy scene. ...). Equally, since the farmer lost several hundreds of pounds worth of cow, they didn't give him too much trouble about not keeping his fences secure. Then again, since everyone involved was a FreeMason ...)
(The crash scene was a winding country road and the cow didn't have any lights on, so the police didn't investigate little things like, was the driver speeding (yes), pissed out of his tiny skull (yes), driving the car with the owner's permission (no, the owner being the business, strictly speaking), insured (well
Not true. Though other people's comments about companies being required to hire locally if possible (exactly the same as the States, I believe) are also true.
One of my class mates from Uni has recently - couple of years ago - escaped from Houston and is now working in Rijkswijk for Shell. OK, by that point he'd got the thick end of 20 years experience in his field, making it reasonably easy for him to fulfil the "highly-skilled migrant" criteria (I assume that the Cloggies have a similar scheme to the UK ; I'll ask Jim next time he's in the UK).
So, your easy way in is by being highly skilled.
Of course, it's easy to get in as a tourist. That's a good route to plan 'B', which is to establish a relationship with a local. But don't say that if you're applying for a visa! And don't think about coming as a tourist, finding a job, and staying ; most countries (the different countries have similar but not identical systems) require you to apply for a settlement visa at their embassy in your home country. It's better to be up-front about these things, and a marriage certificate won't protect you against deportation as an illegal immigrant.
Maybe a touch harsh on Joe - which reminds me to call the plumber myself! - but I can see why you're wanting to leave.
Contact me offline and I'll see if I can give more personalised information.
... start sending copies of the New York Post and Washington Times (to name two random US newspapers) to their friends across the water. "Pour encourager les autres" (to misquote Voltaire and to annoy the recent poster who wanted all "foreign" messages to be filtered.)
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You live inland? No, seriously.
I'm in a coastal town which has been here for in excess of a thousand years, but the streets of the whole town (not just the harbour area) are still littered with the flattened remains of seagulls.
Christians burning other Christians ... ?
If you can arrange the deck chairs, I'll just get a toasting fork and a carton of marshmallows. Back in 5.
Why? this is a public forum, not a private amusing discussion.
You seemed to misunderstand my previous post, so I'll spell it out : hot dry weather, or hot wet weather, or cold dry or cold wet weather are pretty irrelevant to me, and I've worked from +48C (whatever that is in F? 118.4F or so) in the desert to -10C (14F), between the Gulf deserts and Norway. But for pleasure I've travelled between places from +25C (77F) to -30C (-22F). 'Hot' is something people have to pay me to go to. In contrast, I gather from the holiday adverts that some people find 'hot' attractive, Bog alone knows why.
You'd have to pay me more to travel to Texas than you would to travel to Saudi, because I've known more people who've been killed in Texas than have been killed in Saudi. That's simple economics, since I put a non-zero value on my life.
Precursor ? How ?
It is sex education. It might need to be pitched at a basic level, but it's plain boring sex education. Which you can leave to anonymous adults in the school, or to equally anonymous children in the playground (probably setting themselves up for various kiddy-fiddling charges in the process), or you can choose to do the job yourself. What isn't an option is the children not getting answers from somewhere, because their bullshit-detectors will start to flash red if they don't believe your answers and they'll go and find some others.
Punishing the child for having stupid parents. Yep, as expected. I think it's mandatory at several points in the Bible, going as far as punishing the great-great-great-great-grandchildren for the sins of the great-great-great-great-grandparents .
you "live", or do you merely exist.
(Which reminds me to drop an email to my former classmate, a Houston escapee now in the land of the Clogs. See if he's coming over to Scotland some time soon.)
That went years ago. Maybe a decade ago - I don't remember ; it might have been back before I had a phone line or internet access (pre-1993).
So, what you're saying is that [Christian] fundamentalists are (in this respect) indistinguishable from strict Muslims. Well, that is just so unexpected. Sing that song at your choir meeting in Godsville and you'll have the pointy-hat brigade burning crosses on your lawn before the night is out. Enjoy the love that religion thrives on.
... get Tasered into a state of catatonia and dragged off in the Paddy Wagon to start your new life of indentured servitude.
given the way the SlashDot audience are declining into slack-jawed ineptitude, would you need some Rocking-horse shit with that recipe?
If there's some reasoning behind this statement then I'd like to hear it (or even, to read it).
I have moderate grounds for concern about whether it'd be sensible to mass produce "Long Pig" ("Soylent Pink" to raise another popular SlashDot meme) ; whether my concerns are well-founded I'd leave to the biologists since fossils are more my area of expertise. I'd be concerned that any micro-organism that colonised the Long Pig vats successfully would also be in prime condition for colonising live human. And that raises all sorts of potentially ugly public health implications. Also, how much of an immune system would you have to grow in the vats? A nervous net sufficient to exercise the muscle wouldn't necessarily raise any more ethical concerns than changing a fuse in the slicing machine.
For legal concerns ... whose law would apply? Even if your law banned "charcuterie longue", others may not. So all your ban would succeed in would be to promote either smuggling or tourism, both activities with a high profit margin. Prohibition of retail ethanol sale was such a success, wasn't it?
Is Long Pig a taboo meat? Speaking as an ex- animal-rights activist (through laziness, not change of conviction), I find it no more repugnant as an idea than cow meat, horse meat, guinea pig meat, coney, or whale meat. The only reason that I've not (yet) tried hippophagy is that the opportunity hasn't presented itself. Ditto for the guinea pigs. 'Flopsy' the bunny wabbit went into the stew while her son 'Point' (for his chocolate nose tip and bootees) went into a pie if I recall their fates correctly. When my old friend's flea-bitten grey cart-horse half breed brute is for the knacker, I'll get a recipe book to celebrate the event. Well, maybe not - books might not exist except as downloads by then (the beast could easily have another 20 years on his oversized laminitis'd hooves!).
Whale would pose me more problems - from the live animal. From the vats? Whale steak for me! Douglas Adams knew how to illuminate woolly thinking and hypocrisy when he wrote the "Let's Meet the Meat" scene in The Restaurant at The End of The Universe.
Long pig? I have some modest proposals for recipes here from Dean Swift ; baby fricassee sounds nice.
And how is this of relevance to the rest of SlashDot?
As for the guy who declines to LTT75MFA ... some of us like audiobooks and the like, considering them time better spent than listening to the radio in the traffic jams. Be downloading once I've finished typing this comment.
What a sad, but true, statement. Conventional English uses the phrase "the de facto standard", and your rephrasing encompasses such a sad truth - while there is a de jure standard (HTML5), there are attempts to contaminate that simple scenario by the introduction of other protocols which aspire to be standards and to replace the de jure standard.
A Freudian slit, or a deliberate pun?
For travel expenses ... well I'll admit to buying a bus ticket when I'm going to the office or to visit a client and then claiming it back, and taxis to and from the airport. But anything more substantial, i.e. flights ... well I'd have to find out where and how to buy a flight. I gather it's not as simple as waling up to the airport (or taking the bus) and buying a ticket, because there's the difficulty of finding out how to get to wherever it is I've got to get, who does flights there etc. All of which is what we've got secretaries for.
I had to buy flights for a holiday this year. It took weeks to find out what we needed to know, and a thoroughly discouraging experience it was too. Definitely what secretaries are for.
I've still got an installer for the non-ribbon OO.o ; do you need a copy?
Problem solved.
This might be true, but somehow I doubt it. Almost all operations I perform in at most zero clicks (of the mouse - the keyboard does click, sort of, but I don't think that's what you mean by "click"). So, if the ribbon can give me clicks back - maybe it makes the mouse jump around, or flip from the left hand side of the keyboard to where day-shift keep it on the right? Or do I have a "click-bank" somewhere where I can store clicks to be used in a later activity where a mouse is a necessity?
There are some applications where using a mouse is a necessity - image editing programs being a prime example - but word processing is almost the perfect anti-example. You want to keep your fingers on the keyboard, doing what you're being paid to do - type ; when you need to modify something, you need to bring up the commands to do it without distracting yourself by removing your fingers from the keyboard, reaching behind the screen, picking up the mouse, clearing enough desk space (if there is enough space ; if not, find a clipboard or reference book), putting the mouse down, orienting yourself on screen to find the pointer, then getting the pointer to wherever it's needed. And people say Alt+O, C, {first character of the desired font name}, {appropriate number of up/down cursor strokes}, TAB, TAB, type font size desired,{Enter} is difficult! Almost as difficult as Ctrl+1.
NOT in the installer, please! how many people install these things? Our works machines come with them pre-installed, and after putting on our other required software, IT Ghost the drives and solve configuration foul-ups by re-Ghosting back onto the machine. So we never see the installer at work. ... checking the configuration of a machine before Ghosting it is not carefully done.
Put this in an environment where about half the machines are set up for metric and half for imperial ; some think they're in America and some in Britain ; some have Serbian additions, some Russian, some Bosnian
If there were to be such a "fuck off, Ribbon" button, it should be no harder to find than the one for turning off that stupid "variable menu contents" thing they tried a couple of versions ago.
They address this point somewhat in the paper which TFA abstracts :
I'm relatively impressed by the 2000x2000 pixel X-ray detector used, and the deduced 15-25micrometre voxel size.
TFP also mentions that Eophrynus more resembles "harvestmen" (I don't know foreign terms for these arachnids). Sutton and crew have been doing some sterling work on the microstructure of fossils over the last few years.