Sad to agree with you... excepting that almost every windows user I've persuaded to TRY firebird (some refuse because installing a new browser is too complicated for them) has been converted. So I'm fairly pleased to have made a few converts at least.
Development has stalled because it was an individual university project, uni finished for the summer, Mark submitted his work and (probably, not seen him around recently) went on holiday. Clearly while he was working on it as a project he didn't want it to be too open in that others wouldn't be working on it (that'd be cheating!).
I think the report contains a fair amount of information though, as noted by others, did you read it?
that's why I said not clear cut, rather than saying it was clearly a fair case.
It was absolutely her fault. Yes. At least mostly.
The only question is was the temperature at which McDonalds sold the coffee too hot? I'd say no and that it's impossible for coffee to be too hot as it really cools very fast, clearly experiments suggested otherwise to the court. Having said that, styrofoam does hold heat well, and being touching the sides it might give a perception of it being cooler than it is.
What I do think are dangerous are the apple pies and similar things they sell (same with pop tarts), they are far too hot inside, but not through any fault of McDonalds, it's a side effect of their nature. I've burned myself on those before, but that was clearly my fault, not theirs.
Clearly you wouldn't actually drink it boiling, no, but people get annoyed when I give it to them in any other way. They seem to want to be able to control what temperature they drink it at.
Same with tea, I often boil the kettle, do the tea mostly, bob a teabag with it slightly off full, then top it up later so I don't spill any when bobbing. People get annoyed if I don't make sure the kettle's boiling again before topping the mug up. Not sure I understand that one. I drink neither coffee nor tea so this all goes right over my head.
I have read that... I would still argue that coffee IS hot, I think of coffee as boiling water. Maybe, knowing people want to drink it in their cars (on the move was what that article said, which is foolish at best) immediately maybe a lower serving temperature does make sense.
Did she need two hands to take the cap off the cup? Really not a sensible way to hold a styrofoam cup, clearly a lot of fault lay with her there.
With punitive damages... does she actually get the bulk of that money? I don't quite understand how that works...
I'll grant you though it's not quite as clear cut as people make it out to be.
People always get annoyed with me if I serve coffee that isn't just off boiling. Are they supposed to let it cool before serving it then? If I spilt coffee on my lap I would expect the results of having boiling water spilt on my lap - exactly what would have happened.
Apart from any arguments about it being foolish to drink in a moving vehicle anyway.
(and wouldn't OO's "Draw" program have been a better suggestion than GIMP anyway?)
It was just a random example anyway, and a fairly poor one as it does have drawing tools built in of a sort.
The point remains that there are many, many open source projects that get started, but never really complete, think about the number that are still in pre 1 releases.
Here I am arguing and it's hardware support that's restricting my use of Linux at the moment, which isn't really kernel maintainers fault, it'd be nice if hardware manufacturers sorted the drivers.
Well... not sure if I'd buy one. My current favourite car for cost effectiveness, value for money etc (thinking medium to long term... reliability etc) would be a 3 or 4 year old E class Merc, prefer that kind of thing to similarly priced new cars. On the other hand, that doesn't make it a bad car:)
Not actually heard how the Forester deals with being off road. Obviously it works to some extent at least as your hill farmer friend drives one:) Although that depends on how much he pushes it obviously.
All things considered, the RX7 isn't the most practical looking of cars. Not to say that's necessarily a bad thing, but you were moaning about the Range Rover earlier.
OH I agree totally. Most SUVs are dire off road. You'd probably be right about the range rover too (except maybe in "deep" water/mud, something like that... large wheels and all). There are other things to consider of course, wheel size, limited slip diffs, low range gearbox etc.
Also looked up pics of the xedos 6, not too girly certainly;)
Depends on the Mazda... MX5 is fairly girly, true. I don't think that's really relevent. In many ways I think big "SUV"s are becoming increasingly girly cars. The number of women I see driving their little darlings 500 yards to school in a Landcruiser just gets silly, that I would REALLY call a girls car... don't often see men driving them!
I'll give you that. Seriously though most "SUVs" (would anyone call a suburban an SUV, btw?) are... well... not even designed for it. I suppose the BMW X5 is probably one of the best examples really. It's a big car that's heavy on petrol... sports? hmm
Ok, it depends on what you call a common sense car. Though I think the new Range Rovers particularly are more comfortable than most other things I've been in. Most American "SUVs" I was in while I was last over there were horrible to corner in, but then that'd be expected with that kind of vehicle. If you want roadholding, don't buy one.
Your Mazda (I assume a smallish normal car?) would presumably not do well in mud etc, which the Range Rover is exceptionally good at - for a large "SUV" (ie compared with a Frontera, Landcruiser things like that).
Taking it down every backup - fair point, hot swap bays would be worth it on an important server though, surely, and if it's nto that important, then taking it down every so often isn't the end of the world? Clearly it may not always be the best thing, but better than built in hard drives.
Two full sets, yes, I think people here are suggesting you migh want to keep a stack of past drive archives anyway.
Clearly they can't be swapped too often, does that count for the mounting or just the drive itself? The drive isn't an issue, you only need to swap it a couple of times. Mounting is more of a problem.
Overall I agree with this. I certainly use debian on a server for this reason. Certain packages are still behind annoyingly though.
As I'm using stable on a server, put spamassassin on there, sadly the version that's part of stable was awful, so I went out and found a non-standard package for a newer release. Not the best approach for keeping it in stable, but at least some of my spam is being picked up now.
Indeed, and very nice cards to use they are too. Make going through the gates far easier.
Interestingly though at the moment when you use them on buses sometimes you end up as two people, the driver beeps you in, and then you use the oyster card on the machine too.
In the near future there will be a prepay system as well, so you use your card as and when, at the end of the day it decides on the most cost effective set of tickets to charge you for the journeys you made.
Oh yes, the other thing is that new tickets can be loaded onto the cards automatically as you pass through the gates at a tube station.
On a 3x3 grid it is impossible to force a win, winning relys on the other player making a mistake. A computer can easily evaluate the entire game tree to a winning move, so it should never make a mistake. I assume it doesn't beat you too often either?:)
Chess is partially brute forced, in that calculations are run for a large number of levels theoretical turns and options. At each level there are limited turns that are remotely sensible. The art to designing a good chess computer is working out a position evaluating formula that gives a good answer, take that down multiple levels and you have a better idea.
The problem with Go I think is the large number of options that are available at any one point, which makes a very bushy game tree, ie hard to brute force to any depth at all. It is also much harder to generate a static evaluation of the board, because of the more arbitrary "positions" the game can get itself into.
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Sad to agree with you... excepting that almost every windows user I've persuaded to TRY firebird (some refuse because installing a new browser is too complicated for them) has been converted. So I'm fairly pleased to have made a few converts at least.
Nope, 'cause windows may not be shit, but the PS2 is comparitively.
Development has stalled because it was an individual university project, uni finished for the summer, Mark submitted his work and (probably, not seen him around recently) went on holiday. Clearly while he was working on it as a project he didn't want it to be too open in that others wouldn't be working on it (that'd be cheating!).
I think the report contains a fair amount of information though, as noted by others, did you read it?
that's why I said not clear cut, rather than saying it was clearly a fair case.
It was absolutely her fault. Yes. At least mostly.
The only question is was the temperature at which McDonalds sold the coffee too hot? I'd say no and that it's impossible for coffee to be too hot as it really cools very fast, clearly experiments suggested otherwise to the court. Having said that, styrofoam does hold heat well, and being touching the sides it might give a perception of it being cooler than it is.
What I do think are dangerous are the apple pies and similar things they sell (same with pop tarts), they are far too hot inside, but not through any fault of McDonalds, it's a side effect of their nature. I've burned myself on those before, but that was clearly my fault, not theirs.
Clearly you wouldn't actually drink it boiling, no, but people get annoyed when I give it to them in any other way. They seem to want to be able to control what temperature they drink it at.
Same with tea, I often boil the kettle, do the tea mostly, bob a teabag with it slightly off full, then top it up later so I don't spill any when bobbing. People get annoyed if I don't make sure the kettle's boiling again before topping the mug up. Not sure I understand that one. I drink neither coffee nor tea so this all goes right over my head.
I have read that... I would still argue that coffee IS hot, I think of coffee as boiling water. Maybe, knowing people want to drink it in their cars (on the move was what that article said, which is foolish at best) immediately maybe a lower serving temperature does make sense.
Did she need two hands to take the cap off the cup? Really not a sensible way to hold a styrofoam cup, clearly a lot of fault lay with her there.
With punitive damages... does she actually get the bulk of that money? I don't quite understand how that works...
I'll grant you though it's not quite as clear cut as people make it out to be.
People always get annoyed with me if I serve coffee that isn't just off boiling. Are they supposed to let it cool before serving it then? If I spilt coffee on my lap I would expect the results of having boiling water spilt on my lap - exactly what would have happened.
Apart from any arguments about it being foolish to drink in a moving vehicle anyway.
True, it is low which is good. On the other hand the old landrover isn't ;)
:S
TRue enough though, it's silly if someone buys a sportscar and tries to use it for shopping, but a sports car as a sports car makes some sense.
Large numbers of shogans parked outside school playgrounds are just scary
(and wouldn't OO's "Draw" program have been a better suggestion than GIMP anyway?)
It was just a random example anyway, and a fairly poor one as it does have drawing tools built in of a sort.
The point remains that there are many, many open source projects that get started, but never really complete, think about the number that are still in pre 1 releases.
Here I am arguing and it's hardware support that's restricting my use of Linux at the moment, which isn't really kernel maintainers fault, it'd be nice if hardware manufacturers sorted the drivers.
Debatable. I don't count GIMP because it's not for simple manipulable vector graphics.
if you can suggest a good one I'll take a look though, as it is I may try running flash under wine and see if that works.
Let's say I want an arrow between two paragraphs... GIMP'll be useful for that.
Quality, incomplete stuff, to MS's slightly lower quality but much more polished stuff that you don't find missing half the features you want.
Openoffice, for example, is still missing adequate drawing tools.
on the other hand as soon as I can work out why my wireless network card locks up linux on my notebook, I'll be not bothering with windows at all.
Well... not sure if I'd buy one. My current favourite car for cost effectiveness, value for money etc (thinking medium to long term... reliability etc) would be a 3 or 4 year old E class Merc, prefer that kind of thing to similarly priced new cars. On the other hand, that doesn't make it a bad car :)
:) Although that depends on how much he pushes it obviously.
Not actually heard how the Forester deals with being off road. Obviously it works to some extent at least as your hill farmer friend drives one
All things considered, the RX7 isn't the most practical looking of cars. Not to say that's necessarily a bad thing, but you were moaning about the Range Rover earlier.
OH I agree totally. Most SUVs are dire off road. You'd probably be right about the range rover too (except maybe in "deep" water/mud, something like that... large wheels and all). There are other things to consider of course, wheel size, limited slip diffs, low range gearbox etc.
;)
Also looked up pics of the xedos 6, not too girly certainly
Depends on the Mazda... MX5 is fairly girly, true. I don't think that's really relevent. In many ways I think big "SUV"s are becoming increasingly girly cars. The number of women I see driving their little darlings 500 yards to school in a Landcruiser just gets silly, that I would REALLY call a girls car... don't often see men driving them!
Funny to watch most people parking them though...
I'll give you that. Seriously though most "SUVs" (would anyone call a suburban an SUV, btw?) are... well... not even designed for it. I suppose the BMW X5 is probably one of the best examples really. It's a big car that's heavy on petrol... sports? hmm
Ok, it depends on what you call a common sense car. Though I think the new Range Rovers particularly are more comfortable than most other things I've been in. Most American "SUVs" I was in while I was last over there were horrible to corner in, but then that'd be expected with that kind of vehicle. If you want roadholding, don't buy one.
Your Mazda (I assume a smallish normal car?) would presumably not do well in mud etc, which the Range Rover is exceptionally good at - for a large "SUV" (ie compared with a Frontera, Landcruiser things like that).
Sorry, how is that any different to leaving a boat on the water?
In fact, at least the car can be parked out of the water easily, so will air dry.
The term SUV confuses me no end... I can't recall an "SUV" that could really have sport applies to it. Any suggestions?
The Range Rover isn't ludicrous anyway, it's a fairly good all round vehicle, if you like that kind of thing, and is very good off road too.
Taking it down every backup - fair point, hot swap bays would be worth it on an important server though, surely, and if it's nto that important, then taking it down every so often isn't the end of the world? Clearly it may not always be the best thing, but better than built in hard drives.
Two full sets, yes, I think people here are suggesting you migh want to keep a stack of past drive archives anyway.
Clearly they can't be swapped too often, does that count for the mounting or just the drive itself? The drive isn't an issue, you only need to swap it a couple of times. Mounting is more of a problem.
Removable hard drives. Slide in slide out. Probably best not to do it too often, but as a backup, and lock away somewhere once in a while they work.
Overall I agree with this. I certainly use debian on a server for this reason. Certain packages are still behind annoyingly though.
As I'm using stable on a server, put spamassassin on there, sadly the version that's part of stable was awful, so I went out and found a non-standard package for a newer release. Not the best approach for keeping it in stable, but at least some of my spam is being picked up now.
Indeed, and very nice cards to use they are too. Make going through the gates far easier.
Interestingly though at the moment when you use them on buses sometimes you end up as two people, the driver beeps you in, and then you use the oyster card on the machine too.
In the near future there will be a prepay system as well, so you use your card as and when, at the end of the day it decides on the most cost effective set of tickets to charge you for the journeys you made.
Oh yes, the other thing is that new tickets can be loaded onto the cards automatically as you pass through the gates at a tube station.
Certainly :) I don't know anyone who uses AIM.
Everyone used to use ICQ (clearly I'm not counting that as AIM in this context), but became fed up with the client and now use MSN... sadly.
Sleepy mood this morning I think ;) At times deleting comments would be nice...
On a 3x3 grid it is impossible to force a win, winning relys on the other player making a mistake. A computer can easily evaluate the entire game tree to a winning move, so it should never make a mistake. I assume it doesn't beat you too often either? :)
Chess is partially brute forced, in that calculations are run for a large number of levels theoretical turns and options. At each level there are limited turns that are remotely sensible. The art to designing a good chess computer is working out a position evaluating formula that gives a good answer, take that down multiple levels and you have a better idea.
The problem with Go I think is the large number of options that are available at any one point, which makes a very bushy game tree, ie hard to brute force to any depth at all. It is also much harder to generate a static evaluation of the board, because of the more arbitrary "positions" the game can get itself into.