Unfortunately, many Christians go about evangelising in a horrendously un-Christlike manner, obeying the letter of the message while completely ignoring its spirit, failing to demonstrate any of the love, wisdom and humility that Jesus is recorded as demonstrating. The fundamentalists of today are very, very much like the Pharisees of Jesus' time. Plus ça change...
Conspiracy theory: the government told them to do it in order to increase identity theft, thus hoping that the public will become more accepting of the national identity register, and more willing to carry biometric ID cards.
We got the Japanese version of the Ico art in the UK. We get the Japanese Final Fantasy box art too, which is a lot classier than the American FF cover art IMHO -- just a plain white cover with the logo in the centre.
Yesssss! The I-didn't-mean-to-drag thing drives me nuts.
<aol>Me too!</aol>
I know that my processor is "only" 1.3 GHz, but I swear there was a time when a gigahertz-plus CPU was enough to operate a GUI smoothly.
Are you using Debian or Ubuntu, by any chance? I've noticed that the packaged Firefox builds supplied by those distributors are markedly slower than the official builds, for some reason. The official builds are still a bit slow on my vintage 900MHz machine (rendering is fast enough, but there's some degree of UI latency), but not too bad.
That said, perhaps a monolithic kernel is better suited to the open-source development process, which would seem counterintuitive at first because it discourages modularization
Not necessarily. Despite being a monolithic design, Linux is pretty modular. Device drivers, filesystems, network add-ons etc. are separate enough from the core of the kernel that they don't even need to be statically linked into it, but can be loaded as modules into a running kernel, as I'm sure you know.
It's not a microkernel approach because all the modules are loaded into the kernel's address space. They're bits of extra functionality that are dynamically grafted to the monolithic kernel image, so to speak. Nevertheless, it's still a modular approach to kernel design.
The older C3s are Pentium Pro mostly-compatible, but are missing the cmov instruction. Most stuff compiled for the Pentium Pro or better processors assumes that the CPU supports that instruction.
AFAIK, the Ubuntu guys follow the same philosophy as the Debian project in that they don't optimize binaries for specific processors, except for the kernel. If you were to try a kernel built for i386, i486 or Pentium on that C3 box, it might well work.
(If you roll your own kernels, there's an option to build a kernel specially for the C3. That's what I do on my own C3 box (running Debian)).
I'm being laid off at the end of the month. I've been looking around for another job. For the past few years, I've been working in C#, so that's all I have a hope in Hades of getting hired to do. I did interview at a Java place -- I used to code in Java a few years ago, and thought I might like to move back into it -- but they decided I'm too rusty and didn't invite me back. Furthermore, I'm falling at the first hurdle with most of the C# jobs due to my lack of SQL Server experience.
I quite fancy having a go at some Linux job in C, but there's no way in the universe that any recruiter is going to give me the time of day. The fact that I'm vaguely intelligent and vaguely adaptable doesn't wash with them. There's no C-on-Linux on my CV (there's a little C-on-HPUX from 1998 to 2000, but that's ancient history now), so I clearly can't do the job.
...to those people who wander down the street staring into their mobile telephones rather than watching where they're going. I'd guess that the number of lamppost-related injuries is far greater than the number of cancer cases.
What is the British citizen getting for that expense?
In the historic quote, the price for temporary safety was essential liberty. In this case, we're paying essential liberty and tax money, but getting precisely nothing in return. Not even temporarily.
Well, that's not strictly true. We're getting a government official monitoring each transaction. And prolefeed on every channel. Life is good.
At the risk of invoking Godwin, I've taken to calling that one "Reichskanzler Blair's Enabling Act". Because that's pretty much what it is.
I wrote to my (Conservative) MP about it. He assured me that his colleagues are pushing for restrictions to the bill, but stopped short of saying he'd vote against it. Which makes me wonder if the Tories are under party orders to back it if it doesn't look too onerous.
The question is, will the Tories include repeal of the ID card/database/Enabling Act legislation in their manifesto? I'm very loathe to support them, but right now, they're the lesser of two evils. Oh, for a properly-functioning multi-party system...
-Stephen
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On Linux systems, it's possible to use video RAM as swap space. Here's an article explaining how. The article is a few years old, and I can't vouch for it personally because I've never tried it, but it might at least provide you with a starting point.
VB.NET is not the same language as the VB of yesteryear. It's semantically the same as C#, just with a somewhat VB-like syntax to ease VB programmers into working with.NET.
If you're learning to code using the.NET framework from scratch, I can see no reason to choose VB.NET over C#, unless you happen to like VB-like keywords more than Java-like keywords.
The company I work for generally buys Dell servers with no OS, on which we then install Windows Server 2003 (from our MSDN subscription) or Linux, depending on what the server will be used for. I don't imagine we're the only ones, either; I wonder how common this practice is, and what effect it has on the (fairly meaningless) figures?
Convenience. Glancing at a watch is more convenient than fumbling around in one's pocket for the telephone and possibly switching it on.
Also, not everyone takes their mobile telephones everywhere. S'nice to have the freedom to leave the silly thing at home and not be contactable. However, I always wear my wristwatch (basic analogue one, just tells the time and displays the day of the month; nothing fancy). I feel somehow incomplete without it, actually.
Right now, if you decline a call because you're in a meeting, you still get an annoying beep when they leave a message, or the same damn "ringing" 10 min later when they call again. Why not have a single button basically put the phone in silent mode for the next half/hour/n minutes?
Or why not just switch the silly thing off before the meeting? Sure, this does require you to remember to do it, but the snooze button has the same drawback. (You also have to remember to switch it back on again afterwards, which might be a problem if your level of scatterbrainedness is anything like mine!)
Time to reenact the playground arguments fondly remembered by everyone who was a child in 1980s England: Sinclair Spectrum owners and Commodore 64 owners hurling abuse at each other for no particular reason. (The rich kids whose parents bought them BBC Micros somehow rose above it all).
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Why are there these people that feel like every other living soul in the world HAS to accept what they believe
In the case of Christians, it hinges on Jesus' statements about himself, such as "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me", and his command to "go and make disciples of all nations". People who believe the Gospels to be true, and that Jesus' claims about himself are of the utmost importance, thus tend to have a desire that others should also believe those claims.
Unfortunately, many Christians go about evangelising in a horrendously un-Christlike manner, obeying the letter of the message while completely ignoring its spirit, failing to demonstrate any of the love, wisdom and humility that Jesus is recorded as demonstrating. The fundamentalists of today are very, very much like the Pharisees of Jesus' time. Plus ça change...
-Stephen
Conspiracy theory: the government told them to do it in order to increase identity theft, thus hoping that the public will become more accepting of the national identity register, and more willing to carry biometric ID cards.
-Stephen
We got the Japanese version of the Ico art in the UK. We get the Japanese Final Fantasy box art too, which is a lot classier than the American FF cover art IMHO -- just a plain white cover with the logo in the centre.
-Stephen
I mean, when was the last time someone gave you a hug through your monitor?
*hug*
-Stephen
They're all out of work. Their jobs have all been outsourced and are now done by munchkins for a fraction of the salary.
-Stephen
Yesssss! The I-didn't-mean-to-drag thing drives me nuts.
<aol>Me too!</aol>
I know that my processor is "only" 1.3 GHz, but I swear there was a time when a gigahertz-plus CPU was enough to operate a GUI smoothly.
Are you using Debian or Ubuntu, by any chance? I've noticed that the packaged Firefox builds supplied by those distributors are markedly slower than the official builds, for some reason. The official builds are still a bit slow on my vintage 900MHz machine (rendering is fast enough, but there's some degree of UI latency), but not too bad.
-Stephen
That said, perhaps a monolithic kernel is better suited to the open-source development process, which would seem counterintuitive at first because it discourages modularization
Not necessarily. Despite being a monolithic design, Linux is pretty modular. Device drivers, filesystems, network add-ons etc. are separate enough from the core of the kernel that they don't even need to be statically linked into it, but can be loaded as modules into a running kernel, as I'm sure you know.
It's not a microkernel approach because all the modules are loaded into the kernel's address space. They're bits of extra functionality that are dynamically grafted to the monolithic kernel image, so to speak. Nevertheless, it's still a modular approach to kernel design.
-Stephen
So, most fourteen-year-old boys' accounts could be cracked simply by thinking about breasts?
-Stephen
The older C3s are Pentium Pro mostly-compatible, but are missing the cmov instruction. Most stuff compiled for the Pentium Pro or better processors assumes that the CPU supports that instruction.
AFAIK, the Ubuntu guys follow the same philosophy as the Debian project in that they don't optimize binaries for specific processors, except for the kernel. If you were to try a kernel built for i386, i486 or Pentium on that C3 box, it might well work.
(If you roll your own kernels, there's an option to build a kernel specially for the C3. That's what I do on my own C3 box (running Debian)).
-Stephen
This is exactly my experience.
I'm being laid off at the end of the month. I've been looking around for another job. For the past few years, I've been working in C#, so that's all I have a hope in Hades of getting hired to do. I did interview at a Java place -- I used to code in Java a few years ago, and thought I might like to move back into it -- but they decided I'm too rusty and didn't invite me back. Furthermore, I'm falling at the first hurdle with most of the C# jobs due to my lack of SQL Server experience.
I quite fancy having a go at some Linux job in C, but there's no way in the universe that any recruiter is going to give me the time of day. The fact that I'm vaguely intelligent and vaguely adaptable doesn't wash with them. There's no C-on-Linux on my CV (there's a little C-on-HPUX from 1998 to 2000, but that's ancient history now), so I clearly can't do the job.
Sigh.
-Stephen
All I learned from DBZ was the Japanese for "hhhrrnnnnggggghhhhhh!"
(It's "hhhrrnnnnggggghhhhhh!").
-Stephen
...to those people who wander down the street staring into their mobile telephones rather than watching where they're going. I'd guess that the number of lamppost-related injuries is far greater than the number of cancer cases.
-Stephen
What is the British citizen getting for that expense?
In the historic quote, the price for temporary safety was essential liberty. In this case, we're paying essential liberty and tax money, but getting precisely nothing in return. Not even temporarily.
Well, that's not strictly true. We're getting a government official monitoring each transaction. And prolefeed on every channel. Life is good.
-Stephen
Next up, the Democracy Bypass Bill
At the risk of invoking Godwin, I've taken to calling that one "Reichskanzler Blair's Enabling Act". Because that's pretty much what it is.
I wrote to my (Conservative) MP about it. He assured me that his colleagues are pushing for restrictions to the bill, but stopped short of saying he'd vote against it. Which makes me wonder if the Tories are under party orders to back it if it doesn't look too onerous.
The question is, will the Tories include repeal of the ID card/database/Enabling Act legislation in their manifesto? I'm very loathe to support them, but right now, they're the lesser of two evils. Oh, for a properly-functioning multi-party system...
-Stephen
On Linux systems, it's possible to use video RAM as swap space. Here's an article explaining how. The article is a few years old, and I can't vouch for it personally because I've never tried it, but it might at least provide you with a starting point.
-Stephen
The even more capitalist version of that one begins "give a man a fish, and he owes you a fish".
-Stephen
VB.NET is not the same language as the VB of yesteryear. It's semantically the same as C#, just with a somewhat VB-like syntax to ease VB programmers into working with .NET.
.NET framework from scratch, I can see no reason to choose VB.NET over C#, unless you happen to like VB-like keywords more than Java-like keywords.
If you're learning to code using the
-Stephen
So it probably does include piracy (... production MSDN,etc)
It appears that the company I work for is rather less licence-compliant than I realized. Looks like it's time for a word with The Boss.
-Stephen
This practice is unlikely to be very common, atleast since its absolutely illegal.
In that case, I need to raise this with my manager ASAP.
-Stephen
1/ they're internal machines, not public-facing;
2/ don't ask me, I only work here...
-Stephen
The company I work for generally buys Dell servers with no OS, on which we then install Windows Server 2003 (from our MSDN subscription) or Linux, depending on what the server will be used for. I don't imagine we're the only ones, either; I wonder how common this practice is, and what effect it has on the (fairly meaningless) figures?
-Stephen
Those shots captioned "ready room" are actually of the observation lounge, not the ready room.
-Stephen (yes, I'm single; no, this doesn't surprise me)
Convenience. Glancing at a watch is more convenient than fumbling around in one's pocket for the telephone and possibly switching it on.
Also, not everyone takes their mobile telephones everywhere. S'nice to have the freedom to leave the silly thing at home and not be contactable. However, I always wear my wristwatch (basic analogue one, just tells the time and displays the day of the month; nothing fancy). I feel somehow incomplete without it, actually.
-Stephen
Right now, if you decline a call because you're in a meeting, you still get an annoying beep when they leave a message, or the same damn "ringing" 10 min later when they call again. Why not have a single button basically put the phone in silent mode for the next half/hour/n minutes?
Or why not just switch the silly thing off before the meeting? Sure, this does require you to remember to do it, but the snooze button has the same drawback. (You also have to remember to switch it back on again afterwards, which might be a problem if your level of scatterbrainedness is anything like mine!)
-Stephen
Time to reenact the playground arguments fondly remembered by everyone who was a child in 1980s England: Sinclair Spectrum owners and Commodore 64 owners hurling abuse at each other for no particular reason. (The rich kids whose parents bought them BBC Micros somehow rose above it all).
*clears throat*
Speccy forever! Commodore is rubbish!
-Stephen