They're been not uncommon in Prague for years, where some places have a large screen showing the per-table drink score, and a league table for other bars in the chain across central Europe..
As for nudging your recipe based on feedback, does these people really think the idea is new? Why do they think Guinness now brew something they call a stout which tastes like the blandest throwing lager? The process leads inexorably to bland crap, unless it gets hijacked by a few fanatics in which case you get totally unbalanced high bitterness crap.
Sparklers are evil. Some of us prefer for the beer body to have condition, rather than have it all knocked out of the body into a load of foam by an aerosol just to please people who only drink with their eyes.
No, you would have seen not Budvar but ferociously heavily promoted effluent with links over the pond. But no way was everybody drinking it, and absolutely no way was it your only choice.
AIX 5L+? Minimal porting? You've very obviously never actually done it.
The total extent of IBM's efforts with AIX 5L was to put RPM 3.0.3 on their systems and build a few RPMs. The underlying source base for your RPM better support AIX or you're in for a good deal of fun. And you know what? Pretty much everybody dropped AIX support years ago for, I might add, very good reasons. AIX is a Unix, but a seriously weird one. Oh, and by the way, can you guess the version of RPM shipped with the latest AIX? Clue: it begins with 3. Check out the versions of packages at http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/alpha.html. Most/all are seriously old. Many are a decade or more out of date.
As someone who has to deal with targeting AIX (as well as Linux), from my developer PoV AIX is dead, dead, dead. And starting to smell very very badly.
Meanwhile, Oracle have something like, what, 28k system sales per anum on which to amortize the cost of SPARC development? Pity. I loved old Sun kit, but sorry, SPARC is walking dead too. Just like AIX and POWER.
Not so. Actual radar, secondary *and* primary, is used by my ATC customer. They have some multi-lateration systems, but to date pay no attention to the transponder reported GPS position.
Perhaps you think we should just equip the controllers with a FlightRadar24 app each?
My WRT54GL replacement is a TP-Link TL-WR2543N with OpenWRT (http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr2543nd). I picked up one off eBay for £30 and it's working well as a domestic router. With the OpenWRT IPv6 6in4 support, I'm IPv6 at home. And I still have 30Mb RAM free.
They originally took him on to write a column from the point of view of the non-technical user. The column then metamorphosed into pearls of wisdom from the all-knowing. A small step in Byte's decline.
OK, so a generally healthy person who lives to 90 (say) quite probably does incur more total medical expenses over their life compared to someone who dies at 50. They also surely contribute (via taxes/insurance premiums depending on your system) quite a lot more too?
The 18 year old dumbass not wearing a seatbelt might, if wearing a seatbelt, escape with minor injuries. And then contribute to the healthcare system for another 50 years and more. Killing them at 18 isn't necessarily the best fiscal option.
On an A320, the audio signal is to have the in-cockpit speakers bawl 'DUAL INPUT, DUAL INPUT' at you incessantly. It's not some small ding you can't hear.
I have an i7500, and it has GAOSP on it. Yes, the community got Froyo working, but not IMO well enough for day to day use. The I7500 was never updated beyond 1.5 in the UK (thanks, O2), and the Samsung 1.5 and 1.6 releases were both rather poor quality - I think the rotten state of Samsung binaries was what stumped the community. That, and just too little memory.
I'm hoping this means Samsung recognise they have a problem with Android software quality and mean to address it.
Bloody hell, someone actually answering the OP's question.
I'll second the answer. Look on AQA's website for their A level Computing syllabus. NOT, repeat NOT, the ICT A level syllabus. The latter is a pile of foetid dingoes kidneys. The Computing syllabus isn't bad. From memory it doesn't include much in the way of 'how to do bold fonts in Windows'. If you really need that, plunder the ICT syllabus; it's that plus a load of cargo-cult ideas about how computer systems get written, which should be hurled aside with great force.
There are several different boards that set A level syllabuses, of which AQA is one. I've no reason to prefer them over the others, just that's the one that I read.
In other news, I have a low opinion of the Deitel books. The ones I've browsed might as well have been written by a computer. But that's by the by; the OP emphatically doesn't want a 'how to code', but a course outline covering more than the nuts and bolts of coding some language.
I got started in Android with that book. The higher stars are closer to the mark. It has its problems, but overall the book, coupled with the online Android docs, is a pretty good way to get your bearings with Android.
Don't assume it's going to teach you Java or magically explain in detail the exact little problem you're stuck on. Sorry - if you're new to any platform, you're going to have put some work in.
If nothing else, the past year has made me vow to never buy an Android phone that can't be rooted and reflashed, even if it means changing carriers if necessary.
Amen, amen.
I have a Samsung Galaxy i7500 - the original Galaxy. Released in the UK not quite a year ago, it remains on 1.5 (and it took a few goes to get a release of acceptable quality), though Samsung can't quite bring themselves to admit it's now abandonware. Firmware blob problems mean there's not yet a fully working third-party 2.1, though GAOSP is getting close.
I also have a HTC G1, bought second-hand for app development work. Inferior hardware spec in most ways, but there's a good quality HTC 1.6 release and Cyanogen 2.2 works much better than I dared expect.
I am shaping a good long bargepole that I can very deliberately use to not touch Samsung's offerings ever again. And next time new phone time rolls around I shall be looking hard to find something that will be Cyangoen-friendly.
Android is great. But it's a platform, with the same need for updates as a PC, not a ship-and-forget, and some manufacturers need to realise that.
As a Pom who has been developing software professionally for 20 years, and who did a fair amount of academic CS too, I've looked repeatedly during that time at joining BCS.
Damm right it needs modernisation. They barely seem to know what a computer does. The question is whether the current track will make that worse or better. And from where I sit, as an interested outside observer, it looks worse. The active distain for anyone who actually programs, rather than (genuflect) manages has always been there, and now the management types are running the asylum it's getting worse. In BCS-land, DMR (say) would be heavily outranked by anything in a suit, and I don't want to be any part of an organisation like that.
For us/.ers, BCS is and will remain completely, utterly and spectacularly irrelevant. And if BCS is irrelevant and hostile to us, what the hell business does it have proclaiming itself as the institute for the industry of which we are the engine room?
By the way, you have checked the credentials of those calling the EGM? They are far from random members. And the vilification and threats heaped on those who dared to question the current course has been shameful.
I'm sticking happily in ACM, which does still manage to pay serious attention to the technical side of life.
Every year my oldest's school has a careers evening. So last week, like the previous 2 years, I went along and talked to random passers-by about coding for living.
The first year I got asked a load of questions about GCSE/A-levels, and so last year read the ICT GCSE and A-level syllabuses. I think the screams could be heard down the road. The note on course projects in the A-level syllabus provoked the loudest. Something like 'You should use a common computer application for your project. Writing a program using a general-purpose programming language is outside the spirit of this course and will be marked accordingly.'.
There is some light on the horizon. Her school have dumped A-level ICT and now only offer A-level Computing. This is a very different kettle of fish. I was positively purring by the time the syllabus got onto having to learn an assembler...
I used SVK for a year attempting to synchronise two SVN repos, a main dev repo and a secure-area repo only accessible via VPN. SVK would periodically go wild, bouncing changes endlessly between the repos, unless you use the bundle-multiple-changes-into-one mode. All syncs HAD to go via my laptop; set up the mirroring via another machine, and every damm change would get copied over again.
SVK works OK as a satellite to a SVN repo. Try anything more distributed, and it doesn't cut the mustard.
I'm now using Mercurial. Small, fast, easy to learn, dead easy to bring up on AIX, and works perfectly. No contest.
The rum ration was 1 pint per day (in two issues of 1/2 pint neat) per man prior to 1740. The grog ration that replaced it diluted the rum, but did not alter the amount of rum issued. Quick googling suggests the quantity was halved in 1823 and again in 1851. Yes, it was aboard in industrial quantities.
Have a quick read through The Pickwick Papers. I don't have it to hand, but it contains passages detailing heroic quantities of alcohol being drunk at coaching inns in an hour stop. A pint of port, a few bumpers of punch and wash it down with some old ale (at 10% ABV). Enough to totally kipper modern man, but life was a lot more physical then.
The judge may know perfectly well what a website is.
My father, a now retired British judge, pointed out to me years ago that sometimes a judge asks what appears to be a worryingly ignorant question, not because (s)he doesn't know the answer, but because (s)he suspects that some jury members don't know and will not want to appear stupid by asking. This way the judge can be sure they get an explanation, at the potential cost of a little personal flack.
Dad is a happy net user, by the way, and knows exactly what a web site is.
Go read your WWI history, and spend 10 minutes contemplating the meaning of 3 million dead or permanently maimed, and 3 million more wounded. Six in 10 men between 18 and 28 dead or permanently maimed. Consider Verdun, and just how tough that going was.
FFS, I'm not supposed to side with the French. I'm English. But this meme sickens me. A way of insulting the French for acting in what they perceive to be their national interest, when that does not coincide with what the US considers its national interest (and let's be very clear that the US only ever acts in what it considers to be its national interest), it just shows the originators and all those who parrot them as breathtakingly arrogant and ignorant.
I'm in Oxford, just north of RM's HQ in Abingdon. Last time I saw a RM developer recruitment ad in the local paper, the advertised salary range was so jaw-droppingly low, I'm frankly amazed that any of their software ever works. I got dragged in to my daughters' primary school a while ago to sort out some issues, and was -and am - appalled at the rubbish RM shoved over XP.
OTOH, a friend who is a university sysadmin says they get RM PC hardware at competitive prices, and the boxes are physically god and solid.
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They're been not uncommon in Prague for years, where some places have a large screen showing the per-table drink score, and a league table for other bars in the chain across central Europe..
As for nudging your recipe based on feedback, does these people really think the idea is new? Why do they think Guinness now brew something they call a stout which tastes like the blandest throwing lager? The process leads inexorably to bland crap, unless it gets hijacked by a few fanatics in which case you get totally unbalanced high bitterness crap.
Sparklers are evil. Some of us prefer for the beer body to have condition, rather than have it all knocked out of the body into a load of foam by an aerosol just to please people who only drink with their eyes.
No, you would have seen not Budvar but ferociously heavily promoted effluent with links over the pond. But no way was everybody drinking it, and absolutely no way was it your only choice.
AIX 5L+? Minimal porting? You've very obviously never actually done it.
The total extent of IBM's efforts with AIX 5L was to put RPM 3.0.3 on their systems and build a few RPMs. The underlying source base for your RPM better support AIX or you're in for a good deal of fun. And you know what? Pretty much everybody dropped AIX support years ago for, I might add, very good reasons. AIX is a Unix, but a seriously weird one. Oh, and by the way, can you guess the version of RPM shipped with the latest AIX? Clue: it begins with 3. Check out the versions of packages at http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/alpha.html. Most/all are seriously old. Many are a decade or more out of date.
As someone who has to deal with targeting AIX (as well as Linux), from my developer PoV AIX is dead, dead, dead. And starting to smell very very badly.
Meanwhile, Oracle have something like, what, 28k system sales per anum on which to amortize the cost of SPARC development? Pity. I loved old Sun kit, but sorry, SPARC is walking dead too. Just like AIX and POWER.
Two days ago I sat in a rear facing seat on a train doing 300kph. Not a problem.
Not so. Actual radar, secondary *and* primary, is used by my ATC customer. They have some multi-lateration systems, but to date pay no attention to the transponder reported GPS position.
Perhaps you think we should just equip the controllers with a FlightRadar24 app each?
My WRT54GL replacement is a TP-Link TL-WR2543N with OpenWRT (http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr2543nd). I picked up one off eBay for £30 and it's working well as a domestic router. With the OpenWRT IPv6 6in4 support, I'm IPv6 at home. And I still have 30Mb RAM free.
They originally took him on to write a column from the point of view of the non-technical user. The column then metamorphosed into pearls of wisdom from the all-knowing. A small step in Byte's decline.
OK, so a generally healthy person who lives to 90 (say) quite probably does incur more total medical expenses over their life compared to someone who dies at 50.
They also surely contribute (via taxes/insurance premiums depending on your system) quite a lot more too?
The 18 year old dumbass not wearing a seatbelt might, if wearing a seatbelt, escape with minor injuries. And then contribute to the healthcare system for another 50 years and more. Killing them at 18 isn't necessarily the best fiscal option.
On an A320, the audio signal is to have the in-cockpit speakers bawl 'DUAL INPUT, DUAL INPUT' at you incessantly. It's not some small ding you can't hear.
I have an i7500, and it has GAOSP on it. Yes, the community got Froyo working, but not IMO well enough for day to day use. The I7500 was never updated beyond 1.5 in the UK (thanks, O2), and the Samsung 1.5 and 1.6 releases were both rather poor quality - I think the rotten state of Samsung binaries was what stumped the community. That, and just too little memory.
I'm hoping this means Samsung recognise they have a problem with Android software quality and mean to address it.
Bloody hell, someone actually answering the OP's question.
I'll second the answer. Look on AQA's website for their A level Computing syllabus. NOT, repeat NOT, the ICT A level syllabus. The latter is a pile of foetid dingoes kidneys. The Computing syllabus isn't bad. From memory it doesn't include much in the way of 'how to do bold fonts in Windows'. If you really need that, plunder the ICT syllabus; it's that plus a load of cargo-cult ideas about how computer systems get written, which should be hurled aside with great force.
There are several different boards that set A level syllabuses, of which AQA is one. I've no reason to prefer them over the others, just that's the one that I read.
In other news, I have a low opinion of the Deitel books. The ones I've browsed might as well have been written by a computer. But that's by the by; the OP emphatically doesn't want a 'how to code', but a course outline covering more than the nuts and bolts of coding some language.
I got started in Android with that book. The higher stars are closer to the mark. It has its problems, but overall the book, coupled with the online Android docs, is a pretty good way to get your bearings with Android.
Don't assume it's going to teach you Java or magically explain in detail the exact little problem you're stuck on. Sorry - if you're new to any platform, you're going to have put some work in.
If nothing else, the past year has made me vow to never buy an Android phone that can't be rooted and reflashed, even if it means changing carriers if necessary.
Amen, amen.
I have a Samsung Galaxy i7500 - the original Galaxy. Released in the UK not quite a year ago, it remains on 1.5 (and it took a few goes to get a release of acceptable quality), though Samsung can't quite bring themselves to admit it's now abandonware. Firmware blob problems mean there's not yet a fully working third-party 2.1, though GAOSP is getting close.
I also have a HTC G1, bought second-hand for app development work. Inferior hardware spec in most ways, but there's a good quality HTC 1.6 release and Cyanogen 2.2 works much better than I dared expect.
I am shaping a good long bargepole that I can very deliberately use to not touch Samsung's offerings ever again. And next time new phone time rolls around I shall be looking hard to find something that will be Cyangoen-friendly.
Android is great. But it's a platform, with the same need for updates as a PC, not a ship-and-forget, and some manufacturers need to realise that.
As a Pom who has been developing software professionally for 20 years, and who did a fair amount of academic CS too, I've looked repeatedly during that time at joining BCS.
Damm right it needs modernisation. They barely seem to know what a computer does. The question is whether the current track will make that worse or better. And from where I sit, as an interested outside observer, it looks worse. The active distain for anyone who actually programs, rather than (genuflect) manages has always been there, and now the management types are running the asylum it's getting worse. In BCS-land, DMR (say) would be heavily outranked by anything in a suit, and I don't want to be any part of an organisation like that.
For us /.ers, BCS is and will remain completely, utterly and spectacularly irrelevant. And if BCS is irrelevant and hostile to us, what the hell business does it have proclaiming itself as the institute for the industry of which we are the engine room?
By the way, you have checked the credentials of those calling the EGM? They are far from random members. And the vilification and threats heaped on those who dared to question the current course has been shameful.
I'm sticking happily in ACM, which does still manage to pay serious attention to the technical side of life.
Amen.
Every year my oldest's school has a careers evening. So last week, like the previous 2 years, I went along and talked to random passers-by about coding for living.
The first year I got asked a load of questions about GCSE/A-levels, and so last year read the ICT GCSE and A-level syllabuses. I think the screams could be heard down the road. The note on course projects in the A-level syllabus provoked the loudest. Something like 'You should use a common computer application for your project. Writing a program using a general-purpose programming language is outside the spirit of this course and will be marked accordingly.'.
There is some light on the horizon. Her school have dumped A-level ICT and now only offer A-level Computing. This is a very different kettle of fish. I was positively purring by the time the syllabus got onto having to learn an assembler...
If SVK actually worked, you might have a point.
I used SVK for a year attempting to synchronise two SVN repos, a main dev repo and a secure-area repo only accessible via VPN. SVK would periodically go wild, bouncing changes endlessly between the repos, unless you use the bundle-multiple-changes-into-one mode. All syncs HAD to go via my laptop; set up the mirroring via another machine, and every damm change would get copied over again.
SVK works OK as a satellite to a SVN repo. Try anything more distributed, and it doesn't cut the mustard.
I'm now using Mercurial. Small, fast, easy to learn, dead easy to bring up on AIX, and works perfectly. No contest.
Check out the Hammant & Morgan pair above and to the right of the Apple ///.
Two classics, a Clipper and a Duette. Both probably older than most of the computers in the collection. The man is a true connisseur.
Quite right about the small beer.
The rum ration was 1 pint per day (in two issues of 1/2 pint neat) per man prior to 1740. The grog ration that replaced it diluted the rum, but did not alter the amount of rum issued. Quick googling suggests the quantity was halved in 1823 and again in 1851. Yes, it was aboard in industrial quantities.
Have a quick read through The Pickwick Papers. I don't have it to hand, but it contains passages detailing heroic quantities of alcohol being drunk at coaching inns in an hour stop. A pint of port, a few bumpers of punch and wash it down with some old ale (at 10% ABV). Enough to totally kipper modern man, but life was a lot more physical then.
The judge may know perfectly well what a website is.
My father, a now retired British judge, pointed out to me years ago that sometimes a judge asks what appears to be a worryingly ignorant question, not because (s)he doesn't know the answer, but because (s)he suspects that some jury members don't know and will not want to appear stupid by asking. This way the judge can be sure they get an explanation, at the potential cost of a little personal flack.
Dad is a happy net user, by the way, and knows exactly what a web site is.
Go read your WWI history, and spend 10 minutes contemplating the meaning of 3 million dead or permanently maimed, and 3 million more wounded. Six in 10 men between 18 and 28 dead or permanently maimed. Consider Verdun, and just how tough that going was.
FFS, I'm not supposed to side with the French. I'm English. But this meme sickens me. A way of insulting the French for acting in what they perceive to be their national interest, when that does not coincide with what the US considers its national interest (and let's be very clear that the US only ever acts in what it considers to be its national interest), it just shows the originators and all those who parrot them as breathtakingly arrogant and ignorant.
I'm in Oxford, just north of RM's HQ in Abingdon. Last time I saw a RM developer recruitment ad in the local paper, the advertised salary range was so jaw-droppingly low, I'm frankly amazed that any of their software ever works. I got dragged in to my daughters' primary school a while ago to sort out some issues, and was -and am - appalled at the rubbish RM shoved over XP.
OTOH, a friend who is a university sysadmin says they get RM PC hardware at competitive prices, and the boxes are physically god and solid.
Europe and especially the US have plenty of addressable IPv4 space left, and so have no pressing reason to move to IPv6.
Asia, on the other hand, is generally short of IPv4 space. The Chinese are doing IPv6 not because it's right but because they have to.
Why is Britain having a monarchy any more bizzare than our near neighbours the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Belgium or Spain?
Kiwis will be glad to hear you approve of New Zealand's constitutional arrangements.
Round the Horne?
Sir requires http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7. Wednesdays.