Except the Sex Education one, where he went off and answered a completely different question.
All politicians are the same at the end of the same.
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Most of the net seems to be "slashdotted" to me today. Obviously, I can get to Slashdot or I wouldn't be posting this, but even Google is not responding from here. Is there some new DoS virus going around or something?
That includes not being allowed to require staff to work more than a 48 hour average work week except for in VERY limited circumstances
Those limited circumstances include if you've signed a form disclaiming your rights. Every job I've accepted I've been asked to sign one of those forms. HR normally tries to paint it as if one week they might need you to work 49 hours and the Earth will implode if you haven't signed away your rights. I always refuse, pointing out that its an average over three months, and my refusal doesn't mean that I won't be able to work those hours when there is a genuine urgent need. It surprises me how many cow-orkers do sign them though.
The EU is trying to get rid of this "voluntary" loophole, but the UK is dead against it.
I've heard of some mythical thing called the "Sun", but I haven't seen it in years.
Perhaps its time you cleaned up your server room. I found six Suns the other week in a rack I'd forgotted existed behind piles of cardboard Dell boxes. Of course, now that I've thrown the boxes away, I remember why I piled them up in the first place. They made good sound insulation for all the noisy fans in those Suns.
I believe the success of GPS has always been the fact that it can reliably give you your position at any point in time. To achieve this, the battery _HAS_ to last long enough.
In a car or boat, you have an alternate power source, so battery life is not that important. For hiking or other handheld use, it is, but I don't see why Linux running on an ARMVI would be any worse than Wince on the same hardware.
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This is complete misinformed bullshit. I've seen large Java applications that run perfectly in every JVM since 1.1.8. There are a few version specific bugs in Java, but they are easy for any competent programmer to work around.
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I've worked on C# and Java projects. As far as I'm concerned, C# = MS Java.
Ditto. I'd go so far as to say that.NET has some of the same bugs as the MS JVM and class libraries, especially in the networking support, where Java is streets ahead.
Next time you hear Republican's/Conservatives rail about the UN and world government stop and think a minute. They aren't really complaining about the idea of a world government, they are only complaining about who runs it. They want to run it, out of Washington, out of the oval office and at the moment that means they want George W. Bush to run the world.
Fine by me, as long as they let the rest of the world vote in US elections. I don't think Bush will be too keen on the idea then.
Provided the accident is a frontal collision with a Mercedes Benz sedan, like in the publicity video, with the Mercedes' crumple zone absorbing all the impact.
But can you see any evidence of the content? My understanding is that this works by making the image of the content from the book part of the CSS. So if you are not letting the CSS take effect, you won't see anything.
The performance benchmarks on the Resin website are way out of date. I did some testing of my own years ago (Tomcat 3.1 days). Resin was faster than any other servlet engine out there, but its failure mode was catastrophic, so we chose to go with iPlanet instead (which came second in raw performance, and just kept on going as we piled on more users). Interestingly, Tomcat had the lowest performance of all the servers we tested, but it was the only other server still going at the end of the tests. It would be interesting to try the test again, now that Tomcat performance has gone through a few iterations of tweaking, and WebSphere and WebLogic have matured while iPlanet was left to stagnate.
I presume that means you have to type in a zip code. What would be cool is if they did a deal with all the operators to get location info, so you could skip that bit. I know its possible with most European operators, but I guess the US is a bit of a mess with all the incompatible networks and so many local cellular providers to deal with.
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News report from early this year claiming 10 straight years of falling rates, and analysis of statistics from 1950 to 2000.
The facts tell a different story. The only time since the 1950's that teen preganancy rates have gone up is under Bush Snr's presidency.
I guess Bush really did write his own speech this time. That's an average word length of less than 2.3 letters!
Except the Sex Education one, where he went off and answered a completely different question.
All politicians are the same at the end of the same.
Most of the net seems to be "slashdotted" to me today. Obviously, I can get to Slashdot or I wouldn't be posting this, but even Google is not responding from here. Is there some new DoS virus going around or something?
Those limited circumstances include if you've signed a form disclaiming your rights. Every job I've accepted I've been asked to sign one of those forms. HR normally tries to paint it as if one week they might need you to work 49 hours and the Earth will implode if you haven't signed away your rights. I always refuse, pointing out that its an average over three months, and my refusal doesn't mean that I won't be able to work those hours when there is a genuine urgent need. It surprises me how many cow-orkers do sign them though.
The EU is trying to get rid of this "voluntary" loophole, but the UK is dead against it.
Perhaps its time you cleaned up your server room. I found six Suns the other week in a rack I'd forgotted existed behind piles of cardboard Dell boxes. Of course, now that I've thrown the boxes away, I remember why I piled them up in the first place. They made good sound insulation for all the noisy fans in those Suns.
In a car or boat, you have an alternate power source, so battery life is not that important. For hiking or other handheld use, it is, but I don't see why Linux running on an ARMVI would be any worse than Wince on the same hardware.
This is complete misinformed bullshit. I've seen large Java applications that run perfectly in every JVM since 1.1.8. There are a few version specific bugs in Java, but they are easy for any competent programmer to work around.
Ditto. I'd go so far as to say that .NET has some of the same bugs as the MS JVM and class libraries, especially in the networking support, where Java is streets ahead.
Fine by me, as long as they let the rest of the world vote in US elections. I don't think Bush will be too keen on the idea then.
No they didn't. Perhaps you just aren't getting good enough reception.
Apparently some 14 year old girl on the other side of the world has the hots for me. I read it in her livejournal.
Google: bringing false hope to thirtysomething geeks since 1998.
I think given the nature of the work you'd have to throw some donuts in there as well.
or DMCA even.
The US does, its called the DCMA.
Privately owned by the Commision on Presidential Debates?
Since when has Washington Univserity been their property?
Provided the accident is a frontal collision with a Mercedes Benz sedan, like in the publicity video, with the Mercedes' crumple zone absorbing all the impact.
I cannot even see any evidence of DRM
But can you see any evidence of the content? My understanding is that this works by making the image of the content from the book part of the CSS. So if you are not letting the CSS take effect, you won't see anything.
The performance benchmarks on the Resin website are way out of date. I did some testing of my own years ago (Tomcat 3.1 days). Resin was faster than any other servlet engine out there, but its failure mode was catastrophic, so we chose to go with iPlanet instead (which came second in raw performance, and just kept on going as we piled on more users). Interestingly, Tomcat had the lowest performance of all the servers we tested, but it was the only other server still going at the end of the tests. It would be interesting to try the test again, now that Tomcat performance has gone through a few iterations of tweaking, and WebSphere and WebLogic have matured while iPlanet was left to stagnate.
The other recent news would seem to indicate that.
So how much are 6500 SMS messages going to cost you?
I presume that means you have to type in a zip code. What would be cool is if they did a deal with all the operators to get location info, so you could skip that bit. I know its possible with most European operators, but I guess the US is a bit of a mess with all the incompatible networks and so many local cellular providers to deal with.
Or less than a cent for the GPRS data to do a proper web search.