I don't quite go as far as downloading them, but instead I rent DVDs - currently paying 93p per rental at Blockbuster (thanks to a Tesco Freetime offer!) so if it's a great film then I've got more left over to be able to buy the film, and if it's a waste of plastic, then that's 93p lost, not £3.95. Best of all, it's 100% legal.
I can't say for certain with Dell, but if you have absolutely no intention of running Windows on the machine, don't bother with a box-shifter who will preinstall Windows and charge you the Microsoft Tax.
Of course, if you are going to use it with Windows, then by all means, it's cheaper to get Windows that way than to buy a retail box.
Right, I'm assuming you have a dedicated gigabit link to Microsoft to get the shedloads of updates you need to install. after installing the base OS. If your installation media is older than Service Pack 2 then that's going to add to the install time as that needs to be downloaded too. (It took me well over an hour to run the SP2 upgrade from a CD when I ran it on an Athlon XP box, as its connection was a 56Kbit dialup so CD was the only sensible option)
Are you also aware that once you go much above 65mph your car's fuel economy plummets, so although you're going faster you're not only using fuel faster you're also using more per mile you travel.
OK, maybe you do like lining Gordon Brown's pockets. I sure as hell don't.
I'm not looking to get a hybrid yet, despite the UK's sky-high prices for petrol and diesel. My turbo-diesel Renault Scenic (1.5L dCi-86 engine) regularly gets in excess of 72mpg on motorway journeys (UK gal = 4.546L) although that is rather higher than the published figure of 61mpg for this car, and at one point I managed to get over 80mpg down the M1! Even the hybrids don't get this good a fuel economy.
Their new Clio with their 1.5L dCi-86 diesel has a published figure of 70.6mpg extra-urban.
But, if you were constantly submitting work late, holding up your colleagues or trying to do it in a rush so breaking something, then your boss would have every right to take this tone with you.
A Linux/UNIX only app aimed at double-glazing firms allowing prospective customers to choose the style of windows they would like on their home improvement. Since it'll allow you to explore the wide range of windows (and frames) available, surely you can call it Windows Explorer. Especially, since it won't run on a MS platform it can't be confused with the glorified file mangler found within MS's operating system.
This is the Interntional Obfuscated C Code Contest, not the Butt Ugly Perl Contest.
How about:
echo 'Guvf vf gur vagreangvbany BOSHFPNGRQ P pbqr pbagrkg fb vgf cerggl zhpu n tvira gung gur pbqr jvyy ABG or ernqnoyr' | tr \[a-zA-Z] \[n-za-mN-ZA-M]
This is very interesting, especially with its timing. I've been developing a service, and currently ironing out the bugs in the core of the service (e.g. one important feature doesn't quite work right yet). But I think I've got it, it just needs some testing. It certainly won't be a slick operation upon launch, but this article is right, I need to launch it when it works as I've specced it to.
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29.97fps for NTSC. (My example above was for PAL/SECAM.)
Cinemas use 23.976fps, and TV is 25fps (50interlaced) in countries with a 50Hz mains supply.
Yes you do. But according to those screenshots, the B is Black in this case.
30 makes more sense - it's XXX in Roman numerals, and at least according to my /etc/services file, it's available.
I don't quite go as far as downloading them, but instead I rent DVDs - currently paying 93p per rental at Blockbuster (thanks to a Tesco Freetime offer!) so if it's a great film then I've got more left over to be able to buy the film, and if it's a waste of plastic, then that's 93p lost, not £3.95. Best of all, it's 100% legal.
I can't say for certain with Dell, but if you have absolutely no intention of running Windows on the machine, don't bother with a box-shifter who will preinstall Windows and charge you the Microsoft Tax.
Of course, if you are going to use it with Windows, then by all means, it's cheaper to get Windows that way than to buy a retail box.
What version control system is it you use that allows you to check in 4-stringed musical instruments slightly larger than a violin?
Maybe this is the right time to mention your winning IOCCC submission on your CV/resume?!
Right, I'm assuming you have a dedicated gigabit link to Microsoft to get the shedloads of updates you need to install. after installing the base OS. If your installation media is older than Service Pack 2 then that's going to add to the install time as that needs to be downloaded too. (It took me well over an hour to run the SP2 upgrade from a CD when I ran it on an Athlon XP box, as its connection was a 56Kbit dialup so CD was the only sensible option)
Are you also aware that once you go much above 65mph your car's fuel economy plummets, so although you're going faster you're not only using fuel faster you're also using more per mile you travel.
OK, maybe you do like lining Gordon Brown's pockets. I sure as hell don't.
Not strictly true. If you dynamically link to an LGPL'd library you don't have to give the source code to that library.
For example, how many closed-source apps link to glibc? Most, it not all do. Not one of them gives you the glibc source code.
I'd read the joke as referring to the security (or lack of it) on most broadband users' machines. And still thought it was funny.
I'd read the joke differently, and still thought it was funny.
Reading "penetration" from the point of view of security (or the lack of it) of most broadband users' machines.
I'm not looking to get a hybrid yet, despite the UK's sky-high prices for petrol and diesel. My turbo-diesel Renault Scenic (1.5L dCi-86 engine) regularly gets in excess of 72mpg on motorway journeys (UK gal = 4.546L) although that is rather higher than the published figure of 61mpg for this car, and at one point I managed to get over 80mpg down the M1! Even the hybrids don't get this good a fuel economy.
Their new Clio with their 1.5L dCi-86 diesel has a published figure of 70.6mpg extra-urban.
Absolutely. Flogging an old licence is better than flogging a dead horse.
IE is not free, it's part of the operating system. You paid for the OS, it comes as part of that.
But, if you were constantly submitting work late, holding up your colleagues or trying to do it in a rush so breaking something, then your boss would have every right to take this tone with you.
I have a system based on an auxiliary battery and an inverter, which lives in my car, and can charge when on the move. 240V AC, wherever I want it :)
I wonder how they'd take to this:
A Linux/UNIX only app aimed at double-glazing firms allowing prospective customers to choose the style of windows they would like on their home improvement. Since it'll allow you to explore the wide range of windows (and frames) available, surely you can call it Windows Explorer. Especially, since it won't run on a MS platform it can't be confused with the glorified file mangler found within MS's operating system.
We haven't even found intelligent life on other planets...
Sometimes I wonder if there's any intelligent life on this planet, the GP post being a case in point.
This is the Interntional Obfuscated C Code Contest, not the Butt Ugly Perl Contest. How about:
echo 'Guvf vf gur vagreangvbany BOSHFPNGRQ P pbqr pbagrkg fb vgf cerggl zhpu n tvira gung gur pbqr jvyy ABG or ernqnoyr' | tr \[a-zA-Z] \[n-za-mN-ZA-M]
Then there's always ELKS (also known as Linux-8086).
Actually, cool refers to temperature. It really bothers me when people use it only for style.
Too right. When asked if someone was hot, the only answer I could give was that I hadn't had the opportunity to take her temperature.
Why should that be a problem? I have my browser configured to open PDFs into gv.
Slowdown? What slowdown?
This is very interesting, especially with its timing. I've been developing a service, and currently ironing out the bugs in the core of the service (e.g. one important feature doesn't quite work right yet). But I think I've got it, it just needs some testing. It certainly won't be a slick operation upon launch, but this article is right, I need to launch it when it works as I've specced it to.