The irony, of course, will be Bush's bro's state of Florida will be completely submerged, and large chunks of Bush's oil refining areas (places like Houston, Beaumont, and all those Texas coastal refineries) will also be underwater.
I doubt it's anything to do with the "bulb". That kind of light will either be a sodium or mercury discharge lamp, and unlike tungsten lights (which do tend to fail with a flash, as the elecricity arcs when the filament breaks) there is no filament to break and cause a brighter than normal arc.
On a point of pedantry, Linus would have started secondary school by 1983 or so. The GNU project didn't even start until 1984.
Solaris didn't have its first real incarnation until July 1992, six months after I personally first installed Linux (January 1992). Unless you're counting SunOS 4.x as Solaris, but even then, Linus was at university by the time SunOS 4.x came out.
In fact, not only did I not watch much tv in the dialup days, I didn't watch much tv after I was about 14.
When I moved to the States, I gave up tv almost altogether due to the quantity and intrusiveness of the ads. No, it's not a superiority thing. No, I don't think tv is "bad" as such. I just don't find an awful lot of value in it.
Now I've moved back home from the US, the only passive medium I use regularly is radio. The reason that radio will still be going once tv falls out of fashion is that despite radio being a passive medium too, you can do other things like drive a car, make the dinner, do some programming, do the laundry etc. whilst listening to the radio. The radio doesn't need your complete attention like something with moving images does. These days I typically listen to BBC Radio 6 for music and BBC Radio 4 for everything else.
Now about radio dramas - they aren't entirely passive. Like a book, they require some imagination. Your imagination can do far better special effects during a radio drama than the wealthiest movie studio can manage. Some people don't see the point in radio drama - but those people generally haven't listened to any.
You forgot gliders, and aircraft towing other aircraft. Also, I think helicopters and airplanes are equivalent when it comes to right of way (with the caveat that helicopter traffic patterns at airports must avoid the flow of fixed wing aircraft).
The trouble with IM is that it's so balkanized. You've got AIM, MSN, Jabber and who knows else and none of them interconnect and you can't get "official" clients that support all of them (only unofficial ones like Gaim that can be locked out tomorrow).
The only form of IM I use therefore is SMS on my phone (which is pretty much universal and is a standard) and IRC on the Internet (which again, is a standard). So email plays a pretty big role because at least it's universal and I don't have to worry what client someone has and whether I can talk to them at all.
Firstly, this looks like an administration cockup, not anything particular to Windows. It looks like from the circumstantial evidence, that the DWP don't have a separate test network.
We have a distributed system at work. This is why I have built a test network which is completely separate - there is no physical connections between test and live - (physical - not separation via a VLAN, but completely electrically separate) - so if you're in the test room there is absolutely no risk of trying to roll out a patch you're testing on the live system. We don't rely on software to keep tests within the test environment.
Indian food in Western countries gives me the squits anyway. But a good vindaloo (I mean one that's practically inedible it's so hot) is a great cure for the common cold and many other ailments.
Correlation does not imply causation. Britain has a lower unemployment rate than the US and the steadiest economy in Europe (and didn't suffer the recession the US has been suffering), yet the typical working week is shorter (37 hrs) and a new employee in Britain starts off with 4 weeks of vacation instead of 2.
In some countries, there are employment laws that have a test whether you're really a contractor or not to stop employers calling everyone a contractor and avoiding payroll taxes. Make sure these don't apply or you could end up in the worst of both worlds. I don't know whether this applies in the US (I've seen some posts alluding to some 1099 tax code which taxes contractors higher than regular employees - this may be the approach that the US takes to clawing in the payroll taxes *somehow*).
What contracting does is lets you get your toe in lots of doors if you do work for >1 company for possible future permanent positions. It puts you ahead in the queue in any new permanent job in your field that opens because you're a known quantity. Never underestimate the network effect.
The "one way" will be available in 4, 14 or 40 years, of course - and you can still legally install/use it.
The problem we've had with certain proprietary vendors - let's see - Access "applications" that people have developed in house - it is now an enormous effort to port old Access based things (or VB for that matter), and it's not possible to legally license extra machines to develop some of these things.
At least with the OSS equivalents, you can still legally install extra copies of old versions of software to support legacy systems.
Slashdot tends to put spurious spaces in long URLs making them useless. Please enclose them with the URL tag (note under the Comment text box, it tells you how to do this - just
Actually - they aren't variable resistors, they are thyristor control. If you look at the size of a 1W resistor, imagine how big the resistor would have to be for 240VAC, 60W.
The thyristor control basically chops off part of the AC wave form that arrives at your light bulb - so on dim, you have very very short pulses (so the tungsten filament doesn't get very hot, and therefore not very white) and as you turn the light up, the pulses get wider (until you reach full brightness, which is the normal AC waveform).
The same applies to pop-up advertising - I tend to avoid those sites now because they are generally too annoying. I don't mind banners, or 'newspaper style' ads on the web, but pop-ups are obnoxious and my popup blocker is simply to not visit the site again.
What, exactly, is the point of mines that are mapped and pose no danger in a zone between two enemy countries? Surely you want the mines UNmapped and extremely dangerous to stop the two belligerent nations from deciding to march across the DMZ?
It's not the Linux community - it's the ZEALOT community you are thinking of. Since I use on a daily basis Linux, OpenBSD, Windows and Mac OS X, I interact with the user groups of each community.
Each community has just as many loud zealots as the other. Yes, even Windows (the worst in my experience being Microsoft employees themselves, who often go on about how they are going to crush this, that and the other).
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The irony, of course, will be Bush's bro's state of Florida will be completely submerged, and large chunks of Bush's oil refining areas (places like Houston, Beaumont, and all those Texas coastal refineries) will also be underwater.
I'll see your OpenVMS, Tru64 and Solaris, and raise it an IBM zSeries architecture mainframe running Linux...
I doubt it's anything to do with the "bulb". That kind of light will either be a sodium or mercury discharge lamp, and unlike tungsten lights (which do tend to fail with a flash, as the elecricity arcs when the filament breaks) there is no filament to break and cause a brighter than normal arc.
On a point of pedantry, Linus would have started secondary school by 1983 or so. The GNU project didn't even start until 1984.
Solaris didn't have its first real incarnation until July 1992, six months after I personally first installed Linux (January 1992). Unless you're counting SunOS 4.x as Solaris, but even then, Linus was at university by the time SunOS 4.x came out.
In fact, not only did I not watch much tv in the dialup days, I didn't watch much tv after I was about 14.
When I moved to the States, I gave up tv almost altogether due to the quantity and intrusiveness of the ads. No, it's not a superiority thing. No, I don't think tv is "bad" as such. I just don't find an awful lot of value in it.
Now I've moved back home from the US, the only passive medium I use regularly is radio. The reason that radio will still be going once tv falls out of fashion is that despite radio being a passive medium too, you can do other things like drive a car, make the dinner, do some programming, do the laundry etc. whilst listening to the radio. The radio doesn't need your complete attention like something with moving images does. These days I typically listen to BBC Radio 6 for music and BBC Radio 4 for everything else.
Now about radio dramas - they aren't entirely passive. Like a book, they require some imagination. Your imagination can do far better special effects during a radio drama than the wealthiest movie studio can manage. Some people don't see the point in radio drama - but those people generally haven't listened to any.
You forgot gliders, and aircraft towing other aircraft. Also, I think helicopters and airplanes are equivalent when it comes to right of way (with the caveat that helicopter traffic patterns at airports must avoid the flow of fixed wing aircraft).
But having said that, the United States is still the #1 spamming country in the world. South Korea is only #3 (http://www.spamhaus.org/)
The trouble with IM is that it's so balkanized. You've got AIM, MSN, Jabber and who knows else and none of them interconnect and you can't get "official" clients that support all of them (only unofficial ones like Gaim that can be locked out tomorrow).
The only form of IM I use therefore is SMS on my phone (which is pretty much universal and is a standard) and IRC on the Internet (which again, is a standard). So email plays a pretty big role because at least it's universal and I don't have to worry what client someone has and whether I can talk to them at all.
If it was priced $30K below market, and now you've got the crackhouse closed down, looks like you just made $30K...
Firstly, this looks like an administration cockup, not anything particular to Windows. It looks like from the circumstantial evidence, that the DWP don't have a separate test network.
We have a distributed system at work. This is why I have built a test network which is completely separate - there is no physical connections between test and live - (physical - not separation via a VLAN, but completely electrically separate) - so if you're in the test room there is absolutely no risk of trying to roll out a patch you're testing on the live system. We don't rely on software to keep tests within the test environment.
Point 6:
The Mondeo in the US/Canada is known as the Ford Contour or the Mercury Mystique.
Indian food in Western countries gives me the squits anyway. But a good vindaloo (I mean one that's practically inedible it's so hot) is a great cure for the common cold and many other ailments.
They have. It's called Subversion.
http://subversion.tigris.org/
Correlation does not imply causation. Britain has a lower unemployment rate than the US and the steadiest economy in Europe (and didn't suffer the recession the US has been suffering), yet the typical working week is shorter (37 hrs) and a new employee in Britain starts off with 4 weeks of vacation instead of 2.
It has to be said:
1. Get to head of industry body
2. Criticise Microsoft
3. ????
4. Profit!
Although, I guess the ???? bit has been worked out now.
In some countries, there are employment laws that have a test whether you're really a contractor or not to stop employers calling everyone a contractor and avoiding payroll taxes. Make sure these don't apply or you could end up in the worst of both worlds. I don't know whether this applies in the US (I've seen some posts alluding to some 1099 tax code which taxes contractors higher than regular employees - this may be the approach that the US takes to clawing in the payroll taxes *somehow*).
What contracting does is lets you get your toe in lots of doors if you do work for >1 company for possible future permanent positions. It puts you ahead in the queue in any new permanent job in your field that opens because you're a known quantity. Never underestimate the network effect.
How, exactly, are you going to get a stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin out of this?
The "one way" will be available in 4, 14 or 40 years, of course - and you can still legally install/use it.
The problem we've had with certain proprietary vendors - let's see - Access "applications" that people have developed in house - it is now an enormous effort to port old Access based things (or VB for that matter), and it's not possible to legally license extra machines to develop some of these things.
At least with the OSS equivalents, you can still legally install extra copies of old versions of software to support legacy systems.
Slashdot tends to put spurious spaces in long URLs making them useless. Please enclose them with the URL tag (note under the Comment text box, it tells you how to do this - just
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Example:
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Actually - they aren't variable resistors, they are thyristor control. If you look at the size of a 1W resistor, imagine how big the resistor would have to be for 240VAC, 60W.
The thyristor control basically chops off part of the AC wave form that arrives at your light bulb - so on dim, you have very very short pulses (so the tungsten filament doesn't get very hot, and therefore not very white) and as you turn the light up, the pulses get wider (until you reach full brightness, which is the normal AC waveform).
The same applies to pop-up advertising - I tend to avoid those sites now because they are generally too annoying. I don't mind banners, or 'newspaper style' ads on the web, but pop-ups are obnoxious and my popup blocker is simply to not visit the site again.
It's quite simple - vote with your wallet; get rid of the TV.
The Internet is far more interesting than television anyway.
I got my Dad an eMac.
The result?
- No more support calls
- The first computer my Dad's enjoyed using
- No more rats nest of cables
The other result is when it was time to get a laptop for myself - after using OS X, it had to be a PowerBook.
What, exactly, is the point of mines that are mapped and pose no danger in a zone between two enemy countries? Surely you want the mines UNmapped and extremely dangerous to stop the two belligerent nations from deciding to march across the DMZ?
It's not the Linux community - it's the ZEALOT community you are thinking of. Since I use on a daily basis Linux, OpenBSD, Windows and Mac OS X, I interact with the user groups of each community.
Each community has just as many loud zealots as the other. Yes, even Windows (the worst in my experience being Microsoft employees themselves, who often go on about how they are going to crush this, that and the other).