Our prime minister ("Honest" John) isn't even slightly embarrassed about the lack of WMD in Iraq or the lies last year about boat people throwing their kiddies overboard, so I doubt that _anything_ would embarass him.
I have one of these, too. For some reason it's decided it can't work with Windows anymore (who can blame it?), but it plays well with linux and produces a very nice result.
Shipping containers float for a fair while if the door seals are in good condition. Apparently containers that fall off ships in storms are a shipping hazard. They float, but low in the water.
There is a double problem here. In Australia at least (and I doubt if it's substantially different elsewhere), most politicians are: (a) either a lawyer, an economist or an accountant; and (b) as thick as pigshit.
So _of course_ they won't understand. (That's "won't", not "don't" - I believe it's willful.)
> I don't think a real programmer, or a commercial developer, would ever put code THAT ugly in there, because it's TEH SUX0R when you have to read it to fix bugs etc.,...
You're kidding, right? Or you've never seen any commercial-"quality" code.
I once worked on this _really_ exciting insurance project...
Are you smoking crack? You do _not_ live in anything remotely resembling a socialist system. You don't even have universal health care or a decent safety net for unemployed people.
In general it was the right who introduced these literacy requirements in your country (and similar things, like property ownership requirements, in mine). It is _always_ done by the propertied class to exclude poor people from their right to vote.
Even making the things open source wouldn't help. How can you guarantee that the executable running on the machine is, in fact, from the source code you can examine? and even if you could, the results are still probably not tamper-proof. Any voting system which doesn't involve a scrutinised count of bits of marked paper is fundamentally flawed. One of the reasons that electoral fraud is difficult in Australia is that we still use this system.
Not necessarily. The gender of the word has only a coincidental connection to the gender of the object referred to. IIRC, "das Maedchen" is the usage for "the girl". (Bear in mind I last studied German at high school in 1967.)
The South Australian government (not the current bunch, but the crowd of neo-con dickheads we had a while back) got a lot of _really_ nice lunches to give away all the state's computing resources and the total management of them to EDS. Needless to say, it works exceptionally well.
The contract is coming up for renewal, and I for one will be surprised if EDS retains it.
They probably used Access or SQL Server or something. It certainly doesn't sound particulary robust.
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I want one.
Although I don't mind loud music in its place, its place isn't in the car next to me, especially if it's shitty music (ie, rap, "R&B", heavy metal, etc). Blues is OK, as is Oz pub rock.
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My son lives over a computer shop and scored an old NEC keyboard out of their rubbish bin for me... it's so nice to use, positive feedback, a nice healthy 'click' on each keystroke, a real pleasure.
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Our prime minister ("Honest" John) isn't even slightly embarrassed about the lack of WMD in Iraq or the lies last year about boat people throwing their kiddies overboard, so I doubt that _anything_ would embarass him.
We have a few combo printers/photocopiers (Ricoh I think) at work. They are more trouble than they're worth.
I have one of these, too. For some reason it's decided it can't work with Windows anymore (who can blame it?), but it plays well with linux and produces a very nice result.
Despite the fact that we should have got it right by now, all printers are _still_ things of pure evil.
Surely there's prior art somewhere. I mean, it's not like you'd need to be a genius to think up this process.
The alchemy is probably from a purely practical need to synthesise more, and better quality, drugs.
Shipping containers float for a fair while if the door seals are in good condition. Apparently containers that fall off ships in storms are a shipping hazard. They float, but low in the water.
Before you laugh too long and hard about this, it is _precisely_ why Australia is infested with cane toads.
... oh, wait ...
Admittedly, people 70 years ago didn't know as much about enveronmental consequences as we do now
More accurately, Linux users choose _not_ to be handicapped.
There is a double problem here. In Australia at least (and I doubt if it's substantially different elsewhere), most politicians are:
(a) either a lawyer, an economist or an accountant; and
(b) as thick as pigshit.
So _of course_ they won't understand. (That's "won't", not "don't" - I believe it's willful.)
Actually, it's more like a potato (talk to a geodetic surveyor if you don't believe me).
> I don't think a real programmer, or a commercial developer, would ever put code THAT ugly in there, because it's TEH SUX0R when you have to read it to fix bugs etc., ...
...
You're kidding, right? Or you've never seen any commercial-"quality" code.
I once worked on this _really_ exciting insurance project
I don't think they actually qualify as music, do they?
Are you smoking crack? You do _not_ live in anything remotely resembling a socialist system. You don't even have universal health care or a decent safety net for unemployed people.
In general it was the right who introduced these literacy requirements in your country (and similar things, like property ownership requirements, in mine). It is _always_ done by the propertied class to exclude poor people from their right to vote.
Even making the things open source wouldn't help. How can you guarantee that the executable running on the machine is, in fact, from the source code you can examine? and even if you could, the results are still probably not tamper-proof. Any voting system which doesn't involve a scrutinised count of bits of marked paper is fundamentally flawed. One of the reasons that electoral fraud is difficult in Australia is that we still use this system.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those ...
Not necessarily. The gender of the word has only a coincidental connection to the gender of the object referred to. IIRC, "das Maedchen" is the usage for "the girl". (Bear in mind I last studied German at high school in 1967.)
But ... patronising people is half the fun!
The South Australian government (not the current bunch, but the crowd of neo-con dickheads we had a while back) got a lot of _really_ nice lunches to give away all the state's computing resources and the total management of them to EDS. Needless to say, it works exceptionally well.
The contract is coming up for renewal, and I for one will be surprised if EDS retains it.
They probably used Access or SQL Server or something. It certainly doesn't sound particulary robust.
I want one.
Although I don't mind loud music in its place, its place isn't in the car next to me, especially if it's shitty music (ie, rap, "R&B", heavy metal, etc). Blues is OK, as is Oz pub rock.
She already _is_ tone deaf, isn't she?
My son lives over a computer shop and scored an old NEC keyboard out of their rubbish bin for me ... it's so nice to use, positive feedback, a nice healthy 'click' on each keystroke, a real pleasure.
And run on extremely cheap hardware. Have you priced a Sun box recently?