This would mean people who were earlier using Windows would be a bit more comfortable using ylmf's ubuntu rather than the regular one.
I don't see why it would make a difference. If you drive a Volkswagen and then go and drive a Toyota, the indicator and wiper switches are the opposite way round on the steering column, and the instrument panel looks different. If you're really lucky, reverse gear is in a different place on the gate, too. You don't get people whining about how they need to make the Toyota look exactly like a Volkswagen before they can drive it - they just accidentally wash the windows instead of indicating a few times for the first hour behind the wheel. Then they get used to it.
Having never used Windows before it took me about two hours to get my head round XP, mostly due to having to learn how to solve complicated GUI puzzles to find setting that I'd normally use the command line for (like "Start -> Control Panel -> Network -> Connection -> TCP/IP -> Advanced -> set IP address" rather than "ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.1.100" to alias an ethernet port - the exact path through the GUI may be wrong). If you can't learn to live with the differences you probably have some underlying psychological condition that needs addressed.
There wasn't a "terrorist attack" in Glasgow. A couple of drunk guys crashed a burning car into the only building in the Greater Glasgow area with blanket CCTV coverage, armed police and extensive fire suppression systems. Drunk people crashing burning stolen cars isn't exactly an uncommon occurrence in that area.
... just watch a weather report on American TV. "ZOMG IT'S THE BIG ONE EVERYBODY RUN FOR COVER WINDS WILL REACH 50MPH IN PLACES!" and so on. We don't need it, thanks.
Watch one of David Attenborough's natural history programmes. Get your ideas from that.
The traffic system I worked on had 300 baud modems attached to cheap leased lines
Trunked radio systems still communicate between radio sites and the central node using 1200 baud AFSK on four-wire leased lines. They're not cheap, though. You can tell how busy and how healthy a system is by the pattern of blinks on the TX/RX lights...
Where else in the world is someone required to pay a tax to a corporation? Required, as in you will go to jail if you don't give a corporation money for a service you might not need or want.
You're not "required" to pay a tax to the BBC. Where does it say that you are?
In the UK there is a cast-iron unbeatable defence against libel, that cannot under any circumstances fail to get you acquitted - what you say must be *true*. If it's true, it cannot be libel.
As for the really weird comment about dos being about polled I/O instead of interrupts, thats just wrong, as one of the primary forms of entertainment before PnP was assigning various devices to various IRQs and changing config.sys to match ... and if you were writing device drivers, remembering to reset both the interrupt request from the device, and the interrupt request from the interrupt controller. It wasn't as straightforward as "I'll just listen to IRQ4 and run this handler if it fires", it was "I'll just hook IRQ4 to this port on the controller, and listen for its interrupt, run *this* handler to deal with the interrupt controller, *this* handler to work out which device fired it, then *this* handler to actually service the interrupt". By that time, the serial port buffer had overflowed and you had lost data. Ah, fun times;-)
Would I go back to them? Well, "import pyserial" says no.
Get a phone. Take the battery out. Hold it up to your head as though having a conversation on it. Yes, you look funny. Keep having your pretend conversation, for several minutes. You don't actually need to talk, just hold that phone to the side of your head.
(a couple of minutes pass)
Okay, you can stop now. The phone is warm. What? But it doesn't even have a battery in it! How can this be? Could it be that holding a small plastic box to the side of the part of your body that radiates the most head could actually... warm it up?
Which immediately disqualifies any tracks released under Creative Commons.
Why? There's nothing stopping you releasing a CC track and selling downloads. Bandwidth isn't free, you know. Besides, I might want to pay the creator of a CC-licensed track some money as a gesture of appreciation. There are some CC-licensed tracks out there that I'd happily pay enough to buy the creator a beer for;-)
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also, they each went to their next owners with 175K, 265K, and 190K miles respectively.
So they'd barely got past the running-in period then?
It seems worth noting that this uber car also has hydraulics.
Makes perfect sense, when you see the load it has to carry. It probably doesn't handle any differently to a normal Misubishi Colt, just accelerates slower due to the weight.
You can't really drive it with the suspension on low (or high for that matter) unless you're on a perfectly smooth road, because there's no suspension travel at all. The ride is too hard even for BMW drivers;-)
With it set at the normal height you can clear a 9" obstacle, and run over a 6" obstacle without even feeling the bump.
The US is far ahead of the UK in banning games and censoring the Internet. "Hot Coffee" wasn't an issue in the UK, only in the puritanical and prudish US.
Many many years ago, my dad got annoyed with constantly replacing the little coin cells in process timers at work - about one a week on average. So with the aid of a couple of short bits of wire and some hot-melt glue he stuck alkaline D cells on the back of each one. Over twenty years later (and some 16 years after he went silent key himself) most of the timers are still on their original D cells...
They use pagers? And, more to the point, they *pay* to use pagers? They should have been using SMS on their mobile phones. Personal phones, rather than employer-supplied ones. That way it would be free from employer snooping, and free to use.
I stopped going to salon.com because to read any of the articles you had to wait for a 30-second advert to finish. Since it was generally advertising something specific to the US, like an ugly, underpowered car that didn't have a diesel engine option and was only available in the US anyway, or "high speed" Internet connections that were slower than the entry-level package from my UK ISP, I didn't see the point. Watching an intrusive advert for 30 seconds put me off reading the content. Since there didn't appear to be a way to pay for a subscription without a credit card (hint for American web shop designers - outside the US, *everyone* has debit cards - make sure you have debit card support), I lost interest.
This news article was taken from the Daily Mail, a far-right tabloid newspaper which contains more foaming-at-the-mouth madness than a month of Fox News. This story was in all probability sandwiched between an article about how the eeevil not-quite-as-right-wing government are spending *your* taxes on a Christian Vegan Lesbian Holistic Nicaraguan Islamic Learning-impaired Whale-Yoga Ashram, and how the Fish-People really run the BBC which is why they showed eeeevil Nick Griffin and not an episode of Last of the Summer Wine.
Believe pretty much any article you read on Wikipedia before you believe the Daily Mail.
Mmmmhmmm. I have about 3500 Tait T2000s on both VHF and UHF, and they all use BNC connectors. If you look on proper antennas and RF equipment that's used above HF, you'll find only N connectors, except for enormously old VHF commercial equipment. Of course, once you get into low microwave you get some seriously odd connectors.
It's not *that* hard to do - with a perfectly ordinary 10GHz intruder detector radar you can easily hear the Doppler shift in returns from slowly-moving objects. With clever DSP and a lower frequency you could probably resolve rather finer detail than you can by listening for the beat note.
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This would mean people who were earlier using Windows would be a bit more comfortable using ylmf's ubuntu rather than the regular one.
I don't see why it would make a difference. If you drive a Volkswagen and then go and drive a Toyota, the indicator and wiper switches are the opposite way round on the steering column, and the instrument panel looks different. If you're really lucky, reverse gear is in a different place on the gate, too. You don't get people whining about how they need to make the Toyota look exactly like a Volkswagen before they can drive it - they just accidentally wash the windows instead of indicating a few times for the first hour behind the wheel. Then they get used to it.
Having never used Windows before it took me about two hours to get my head round XP, mostly due to having to learn how to solve complicated GUI puzzles to find setting that I'd normally use the command line for (like "Start -> Control Panel -> Network -> Connection -> TCP/IP -> Advanced -> set IP address" rather than "ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.1.100" to alias an ethernet port - the exact path through the GUI may be wrong). If you can't learn to live with the differences you probably have some underlying psychological condition that needs addressed.
There wasn't a "terrorist attack" in Glasgow. A couple of drunk guys crashed a burning car into the only building in the Greater Glasgow area with blanket CCTV coverage, armed police and extensive fire suppression systems. Drunk people crashing burning stolen cars isn't exactly an uncommon occurrence in that area.
... just watch a weather report on American TV. "ZOMG IT'S THE BIG ONE EVERYBODY RUN FOR COVER WINDS WILL REACH 50MPH IN PLACES!" and so on. We don't need it, thanks.
Watch one of David Attenborough's natural history programmes. Get your ideas from that.
The traffic system I worked on had 300 baud modems attached to cheap leased lines
Trunked radio systems still communicate between radio sites and the central node using 1200 baud AFSK on four-wire leased lines. They're not cheap, though. You can tell how busy and how healthy a system is by the pattern of blinks on the TX/RX lights...
Where else in the world is someone required to pay a tax to a corporation? Required, as in you will go to jail if you don't give a corporation money for a service you might not need or want.
You're not "required" to pay a tax to the BBC. Where does it say that you are?
In the UK there is a cast-iron unbeatable defence against libel, that cannot under any circumstances fail to get you acquitted - what you say must be *true*. If it's true, it cannot be libel.
Ah yes, those were the days, eh? Weren't they? Eh?
As for the really weird comment about dos being about polled I/O instead of interrupts, thats just wrong, as one of the primary forms of entertainment before PnP was assigning various devices to various IRQs and changing config.sys to match
... and if you were writing device drivers, remembering to reset both the interrupt request from the device, and the interrupt request from the interrupt controller. It wasn't as straightforward as "I'll just listen to IRQ4 and run this handler if it fires", it was "I'll just hook IRQ4 to this port on the controller, and listen for its interrupt, run *this* handler to deal with the interrupt controller, *this* handler to work out which device fired it, then *this* handler to actually service the interrupt". By that time, the serial port buffer had overflowed and you had lost data. Ah, fun times ;-)
Would I go back to them? Well, "import pyserial" says no.
How is it producing 3W with the battery removed?
Get a phone. Take the battery out. Hold it up to your head as though having a conversation on it. Yes, you look funny. Keep having your pretend conversation, for several minutes. You don't actually need to talk, just hold that phone to the side of your head.
(a couple of minutes pass)
Okay, you can stop now. The phone is warm. What? But it doesn't even have a battery in it! How can this be? Could it be that holding a small plastic box to the side of the part of your body that radiates the most head could actually... warm it up?
Which immediately disqualifies any tracks released under Creative Commons.
Why? There's nothing stopping you releasing a CC track and selling downloads. Bandwidth isn't free, you know. Besides, I might want to pay the creator of a CC-licensed track some money as a gesture of appreciation. There are some CC-licensed tracks out there that I'd happily pay enough to buy the creator a beer for ;-)
also, they each went to their next owners with 175K, 265K, and 190K miles respectively.
So they'd barely got past the running-in period then?
Can you sell unrated content in the UK or AU?
You can in the UK. I don't know about Australia.
It seems worth noting that this uber car also has hydraulics.
Makes perfect sense, when you see the load it has to carry. It probably doesn't handle any differently to a normal Misubishi Colt, just accelerates slower due to the weight.
Citroen CX. Factory hydraulics.
You can't really drive it with the suspension on low (or high for that matter) unless you're on a perfectly smooth road, because there's no suspension travel at all. The ride is too hard even for BMW drivers ;-)
With it set at the normal height you can clear a 9" obstacle, and run over a 6" obstacle without even feeling the bump.
The US is far ahead of the UK in banning games and censoring the Internet. "Hot Coffee" wasn't an issue in the UK, only in the puritanical and prudish US.
In the UK the maximum electronic transfer in a day is 10k
I've transferred over twice that between banks in a single transaction before. Maybe it's just English banks that have that limit?
Many many years ago, my dad got annoyed with constantly replacing the little coin cells in process timers at work - about one a week on average. So with the aid of a couple of short bits of wire and some hot-melt glue he stuck alkaline D cells on the back of each one. Over twenty years later (and some 16 years after he went silent key himself) most of the timers are still on their original D cells...
They use pagers? And, more to the point, they *pay* to use pagers? They should have been using SMS on their mobile phones. Personal phones, rather than employer-supplied ones. That way it would be free from employer snooping, and free to use.
... about falling objects when they're collecting nuts and fruit from trees, thus ensuring each other's safety.
Before long, we will discover the monkey words for "method statement" and "risk assessment", but by then it will be too late.
And the daily mail isn't a major news thing?
I guess, in much the same way that The National Enquirer is.
I stopped going to salon.com because to read any of the articles you had to wait for a 30-second advert to finish. Since it was generally advertising something specific to the US, like an ugly, underpowered car that didn't have a diesel engine option and was only available in the US anyway, or "high speed" Internet connections that were slower than the entry-level package from my UK ISP, I didn't see the point. Watching an intrusive advert for 30 seconds put me off reading the content. Since there didn't appear to be a way to pay for a subscription without a credit card (hint for American web shop designers - outside the US, *everyone* has debit cards - make sure you have debit card support), I lost interest.
This news article was taken from the Daily Mail, a far-right tabloid newspaper which contains more foaming-at-the-mouth madness than a month of Fox News. This story was in all probability sandwiched between an article about how the eeevil not-quite-as-right-wing government are spending *your* taxes on a Christian Vegan Lesbian Holistic Nicaraguan Islamic Learning-impaired Whale-Yoga Ashram, and how the Fish-People really run the BBC which is why they showed eeeevil Nick Griffin and not an episode of Last of the Summer Wine.
Believe pretty much any article you read on Wikipedia before you believe the Daily Mail.
Mmmmhmmm. I have about 3500 Tait T2000s on both VHF and UHF, and they all use BNC connectors. If you look on proper antennas and RF equipment that's used above HF, you'll find only N connectors, except for enormously old VHF commercial equipment. Of course, once you get into low microwave you get some seriously odd connectors.
It's not *that* hard to do - with a perfectly ordinary 10GHz intruder detector radar you can easily hear the Doppler shift in returns from slowly-moving objects. With clever DSP and a lower frequency you could probably resolve rather finer detail than you can by listening for the beat note.