I thought the US had tax treaties with many countries? Certainly with Britain, wherever you spent at least 183 days in a given year that was where you were liable for tax (so when I spent 6 years in TX, the British tax authorities didn't care because I was outside of Britain for >183 days in those years). Similarly, the US soon lost interest in me when I left.
The other factor is - how does the scratch-proof polycarbonate react to UV light? Aircraft windshields are notorious for going milky with years of sunlight exposure. Cars tend to be left out in the sun for long periods of time, and any window material must not be adversely affected by UV.
As far as treaties, well, the United States has already set the precedent that international treaties are worthless (being fully prepared to renege on treaties with Russia over anti-missile technology).
China doesn't have to worry about protesters if it wants to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft - don't forget China is a totalitarian dictatorship, and protesters tend to get run over by tanks or get shot.
OpenBSD is fine on the desktop. Just build KDE from ports and it's like any other *nix/Linux desktop. I run it on firewalls and on my dev machine at work.
Really? On all the cars I've had, the cooling system has been the component that HASN'T failed. The electrical system is at least an order of magnitude worse.
A McLaren F1 is no more akin to 'todays technology' than a new Ford Taurus. If you wanted to do that example, something like, say, a Volkswagen TDi is 'more akin to today's technology' than a Taurus. The VW doesn't cost more than the Taurus.
Actually, if you are a terrorist you are likely to have a valid and correct ID card so you can blend in with the crowd. The Sept.11 attackers all used valid ID.
ID is only worthwhile for tracking terrorists if they have already committed an act or been caught or otherwise fingered. In the case of suicide bombers, by definition their attack will usually be their first and last, it's pretty much pointless.
1. In the UK, even when driving, you don't have to carry your license. It would be an offence not to carry your ID card if compulsory - this means everyday forgetfulness can easily be a criminal offence. 2. You don't have to drive. Many people in the UK don't, and therefore don't have a driving license or passport. At the moment, the only people who this really impacts are those who look like they might be under 18 going to buy alcohol. However, even if you didn't drive, the ID card would be compulsory and it would be mandatory to carry it with you. 3. Inconvenience. Cycling and running clothing often has no pockets. 4. Cost. A drivers license is optional (especially where there is reasonable public transport). The costs for this all singing all dancing biometric ID will be quite high. Guess who has to pay - YOU do. For something that is essentially pointless.
Yes Minister also covered a compulsory European identity card, and how Hacker managed to use it as a gambit to stop his department from being disbanded.
It should never need a kernel compile (I'll make an exception for an experimental driver) - they should all compile fine as modules. All the most recent 3rd party Linux drivers I've used just needed the module compiling and then loading - not even a reboot was needed.
Out of the US we don't need more than one phone - all phones made in the last few years function perfectly well as both a phone and an alphanumeric pager (via SMS). Most phones sold now above the basic level include GPRS for internet access.
Pagers are almost redundant outside the US - there's only specialised places (such as hospitals, where mobile phones are prohibited) that still use them.
Virtually all weirdness is caused by some kind of grounding problem in cars. Sometimes it feels like electrical systems in cars do not obey the normal rules of electricity (for example, the windscreen wipers failed in my old Dodge - I checked there was voltage when the switch was on, and sure enough there it was, I checked the motor was working, and sure enough it was - but despite volts and a working motor, they didn't wipe - problem turned out to be an intermittent ground which only showed up when the system was assembled as a whole. But it was very very odd and not easy to trace). There is a condition we call Escortitis because Ford Escorts suffer this so chronically, where the entire rear light cluster flashes when the indicators are used - caused by bad grounding, and the indicator bulbs grounding out in series through the rest of the lights.
Intermittent connections are a particular problem in older cars because of the hostile conditions the wiring is subjected to - and they are almost impossible to repair because often the wiring harnesses are bundled in masses of tape. The headlights failed on my Ford Sierra (late at night, on an unlit road section, when I was going at 80 mph - not nice) due to an intermittent wiring fault. Under test, the wiring functioned flawlessly. But when I put it back together, the lights didn't work at all. I ended up simply cutting the old wires at the fuse box and the headlights, and putting in brand new wiring of my own.
The strangest problem I had was with the Dodge. I got stopped by the police for having no brake lights - I checked the fuse and it had blown. I put in a new fuse, and tested the lights, and they worked fine. So off I went. A week later, I checked the fuse again and it had blown. Eventually, I rigged up my multimeter on the 10A setting in series with the brake light circuit to try and identify when the short circuit was occurring. With the dampness of the time of year, I was rolling down my window when coming to the end of my road due to the condensation. When I lowered the window, some chafed wires were making contact with the body work, and the meter briefly hit full scale deflection (so hard I heard the needle slam on its 10A stop), blowing the brake light fuse.
Why the hell the brake light circuit got anywhere near the windows in the door I don't know (IIRC, the brake lights seemed to share some wiring with the power locks, despite having a separate fuse - it may have come down to faults elsewhere as the vehicle was old, and the current taking a path that eventually put it on the brake light circuit), but they did. I replaced a bunch of wiring to fix the problem. That Dodge was the worst vehicle I have ever owned for getting weird electrical shorts and bad grounds.
Replying a bit late beccause I've been away, so I'm not sure you'll actually get to read this - so I'll be brief:
You're comparing apples to oranges. This guy is the target demographic for 'regular joe' jobs like working in Ronnie's burger bar - it's the sort of job 18 year olds with no other work experience do and have no problem getting. You're comparing the cracker's situation with your own - an older person with a stacked resume that makes them overqualified for Ronnie's burger bar. This guy could just walk into one of those jobs, just like countless other teenagers do.
You needn't worry about shingles on British homes - they don't have them. The roofing is generally ceramic or concrete tiles or slates (sheets of natural slate or manufactured slate). They don't rot and they last (literally) for centuries. My Dad's slate roof house is older than the United States, and mostly has original slates.
Remember the 'hurricane' of 1987 in southern England? Remember the BBC broadcasting from emergency studios, off a generator?
Outages do happen even in somewhere like Britain. I live in the Isle of Man. The last outage we had was all-island due to a cockup during some maintenance work - the whole island lost power for nearly 2 hours (we've done pretty well since, we've not had any power outages for almost 2 years since, but then again we have excess generating capacity and sell electricity to the UK)
Britain is a very mild country. I live in the Isle of Man, which is part of the British Isles (but not part of the UK!), and it's at the same latitude as Anchorage, Alaska.
However, I think it only got below freezing twice last winter, and only snowed once (about 1.5 inches, which mostly melted by mid-day).
If you wear two pairs of trousers and three sweatshirts (even with the heating off) you'll rapidly overheat. So long as you are indoors (another attribute of winter in the British Isles is that it is extremely damp and humid) staying warm is trivial. Wearing shorts and T-shirt in the British winter is a bit chilly, but won't threaten your survival so long as you are dry.
Your experience is totally different to mine. I've been using Linux since 0.12 in January 1992. When it did get sound support (SoundBlaster was the first card supported) about a year or so later, I had no problems configuring it.
In fact, I've NEVER had a problem with sound. Since about RedHat 5 times, the distro has supported whatever sound hardware I've had natively. My most recent install, Fedora Core 2, autoconfigured it fine (as had RedHat 8 before it).
(Also, FWIW, since RedHat 7, I've never had a problem with X not just working out of the box and being autoconfigured by the installer. It's only since I've been gaming on Linux that I've needed to do anything extra - namely install the nVidia drivers which isn't exactly difficult).
Also, why layer it on top of UDP? Why not just have a new layer 3 IP protocol instead?
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Starving to death? Right-o. Perhaps if he's got the intelligence to write nice code, perhaps he may have the intelligence to think of a genuinely useful service/piece of software to sell. It might take more thought than being unethical.
Or perhaps in the meantime he can work for Ronnie's burger bar, or on a building site, or as a motorcycle courier - there are plenty of jobs around to take while you look for something better.
There was a programme on BBC tv within the last year or so called "A Life of Grime" (IIRC) presented by John Peel. The programme was about Bristol City Council public hygiene workers. By far the most cheerful of the lot was the guy who's primary job was unblocking sewers. He really enjoyed his job, and I bet he had an incredibly strong immune system as a result.
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Biztalk is massively overrated. It's nothing that can't be done by competent Perl programming.
I thought the US had tax treaties with many countries? Certainly with Britain, wherever you spent at least 183 days in a given year that was where you were liable for tax (so when I spent 6 years in TX, the British tax authorities didn't care because I was outside of Britain for >183 days in those years). Similarly, the US soon lost interest in me when I left.
The other factor is - how does the scratch-proof polycarbonate react to UV light? Aircraft windshields are notorious for going milky with years of sunlight exposure. Cars tend to be left out in the sun for long periods of time, and any window material must not be adversely affected by UV.
As far as treaties, well, the United States has already set the precedent that international treaties are worthless (being fully prepared to renege on treaties with Russia over anti-missile technology).
China doesn't have to worry about protesters if it wants to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft - don't forget China is a totalitarian dictatorship, and protesters tend to get run over by tanks or get shot.
OpenBSD is fine on the desktop. Just build KDE from ports and it's like any other *nix/Linux desktop. I run it on firewalls and on my dev machine at work.
And connection pooling with pf rocks.
Really? On all the cars I've had, the cooling system has been the component that HASN'T failed. The electrical system is at least an order of magnitude worse.
You could probably do it with the oil coolers on the Beetle (IIRC, it had an oil cooler).
A McLaren F1 is no more akin to 'todays technology' than a new Ford Taurus. If you wanted to do that example, something like, say, a Volkswagen TDi is 'more akin to today's technology' than a Taurus. The VW doesn't cost more than the Taurus.
Actually, if you are a terrorist you are likely to have a valid and correct ID card so you can blend in with the crowd. The Sept.11 attackers all used valid ID.
ID is only worthwhile for tracking terrorists if they have already committed an act or been caught or otherwise fingered. In the case of suicide bombers, by definition their attack will usually be their first and last, it's pretty much pointless.
It differs from a driving license because:
1. In the UK, even when driving, you don't have to carry your license. It would be an offence not to carry your ID card if compulsory - this means everyday forgetfulness can easily be a criminal offence.
2. You don't have to drive. Many people in the UK don't, and therefore don't have a driving license or passport. At the moment, the only people who this really impacts are those who look like they might be under 18 going to buy alcohol. However, even if you didn't drive, the ID card would be compulsory and it would be mandatory to carry it with you.
3. Inconvenience. Cycling and running clothing often has no pockets.
4. Cost. A drivers license is optional (especially where there is reasonable public transport). The costs for this all singing all dancing biometric ID will be quite high. Guess who has to pay - YOU do. For something that is essentially pointless.
Yes Minister also covered a compulsory European identity card, and how Hacker managed to use it as a gambit to stop his department from being disbanded.
Can you not compile the ATi drivers as a module? Should just need a make; make install followed by modprobe to load it.
It should never need a kernel compile (I'll make an exception for an experimental driver) - they should all compile fine as modules. All the most recent 3rd party Linux drivers I've used just needed the module compiling and then loading - not even a reboot was needed.
Out of the US we don't need more than one phone - all phones made in the last few years function perfectly well as both a phone and an alphanumeric pager (via SMS). Most phones sold now above the basic level include GPRS for internet access.
Pagers are almost redundant outside the US - there's only specialised places (such as hospitals, where mobile phones are prohibited) that still use them.
On the contrary. Modern living is part of evolution - it makes individuals more likely to live long enough to reproduce.
Virtually all weirdness is caused by some kind of grounding problem in cars. Sometimes it feels like electrical systems in cars do not obey the normal rules of electricity (for example, the windscreen wipers failed in my old Dodge - I checked there was voltage when the switch was on, and sure enough there it was, I checked the motor was working, and sure enough it was - but despite volts and a working motor, they didn't wipe - problem turned out to be an intermittent ground which only showed up when the system was assembled as a whole. But it was very very odd and not easy to trace). There is a condition we call Escortitis because Ford Escorts suffer this so chronically, where the entire rear light cluster flashes when the indicators are used - caused by bad grounding, and the indicator bulbs grounding out in series through the rest of the lights.
Intermittent connections are a particular problem in older cars because of the hostile conditions the wiring is subjected to - and they are almost impossible to repair because often the wiring harnesses are bundled in masses of tape. The headlights failed on my Ford Sierra (late at night, on an unlit road section, when I was going at 80 mph - not nice) due to an intermittent wiring fault. Under test, the wiring functioned flawlessly. But when I put it back together, the lights didn't work at all. I ended up simply cutting the old wires at the fuse box and the headlights, and putting in brand new wiring of my own.
The strangest problem I had was with the Dodge. I got stopped by the police for having no brake lights - I checked the fuse and it had blown. I put in a new fuse, and tested the lights, and they worked fine. So off I went. A week later, I checked the fuse again and it had blown. Eventually, I rigged up my multimeter on the 10A setting in series with the brake light circuit to try and identify when the short circuit was occurring. With the dampness of the time of year, I was rolling down my window when coming to the end of my road due to the condensation. When I lowered the window, some chafed wires were making contact with the body work, and the meter briefly hit full scale deflection (so hard I heard the needle slam on its 10A stop), blowing the brake light fuse.
Why the hell the brake light circuit got anywhere near the windows in the door I don't know (IIRC, the brake lights seemed to share some wiring with the power locks, despite having a separate fuse - it may have come down to faults elsewhere as the vehicle was old, and the current taking a path that eventually put it on the brake light circuit), but they did. I replaced a bunch of wiring to fix the problem. That Dodge was the worst vehicle I have ever owned for getting weird electrical shorts and bad grounds.
Replying a bit late beccause I've been away, so I'm not sure you'll actually get to read this - so I'll be brief:
You're comparing apples to oranges. This guy is the target demographic for 'regular joe' jobs like working in Ronnie's burger bar - it's the sort of job 18 year olds with no other work experience do and have no problem getting. You're comparing the cracker's situation with your own - an older person with a stacked resume that makes them overqualified for Ronnie's burger bar. This guy could just walk into one of those jobs, just like countless other teenagers do.
You needn't worry about shingles on British homes - they don't have them. The roofing is generally ceramic or concrete tiles or slates (sheets of natural slate or manufactured slate). They don't rot and they last (literally) for centuries. My Dad's slate roof house is older than the United States, and mostly has original slates.
Remember the 'hurricane' of 1987 in southern England? Remember the BBC broadcasting from emergency studios, off a generator?
Outages do happen even in somewhere like Britain. I live in the Isle of Man. The last outage we had was all-island due to a cockup during some maintenance work - the whole island lost power for nearly 2 hours (we've done pretty well since, we've not had any power outages for almost 2 years since, but then again we have excess generating capacity and sell electricity to the UK)
If it's cold enough to worry about heating, it's cold enough to just stick perishables in a box outside and use the outside as a natural fridge :-)
Britain is a very mild country. I live in the Isle of Man, which is part of the British Isles (but not part of the UK!), and it's at the same latitude as Anchorage, Alaska.
However, I think it only got below freezing twice last winter, and only snowed once (about 1.5 inches, which mostly melted by mid-day).
If you wear two pairs of trousers and three sweatshirts (even with the heating off) you'll rapidly overheat. So long as you are indoors (another attribute of winter in the British Isles is that it is extremely damp and humid) staying warm is trivial. Wearing shorts and T-shirt in the British winter is a bit chilly, but won't threaten your survival so long as you are dry.
Your experience is totally different to mine. I've been using Linux since 0.12 in January 1992. When it did get sound support (SoundBlaster was the first card supported) about a year or so later, I had no problems configuring it.
In fact, I've NEVER had a problem with sound. Since about RedHat 5 times, the distro has supported whatever sound hardware I've had natively. My most recent install, Fedora Core 2, autoconfigured it fine (as had RedHat 8 before it).
(Also, FWIW, since RedHat 7, I've never had a problem with X not just working out of the box and being autoconfigured by the installer. It's only since I've been gaming on Linux that I've needed to do anything extra - namely install the nVidia drivers which isn't exactly difficult).
What sound hardware do you have?
Also, why layer it on top of UDP? Why not just have a new layer 3 IP protocol instead?
Starving to death? Right-o. Perhaps if he's got the intelligence to write nice code, perhaps he may have the intelligence to think of a genuinely useful service/piece of software to sell. It might take more thought than being unethical.
Or perhaps in the meantime he can work for Ronnie's burger bar, or on a building site, or as a motorcycle courier - there are plenty of jobs around to take while you look for something better.
There was a programme on BBC tv within the last year or so called "A Life of Grime" (IIRC) presented by John Peel. The programme was about Bristol City Council public hygiene workers. By far the most cheerful of the lot was the guy who's primary job was unblocking sewers. He really enjoyed his job, and I bet he had an incredibly strong immune system as a result.