That's why it is an addiction, I mean, not drinking wodka or not lighting a cigarette is a choice as well. That is the one thing that is present in all addictions, you mentally lose your ability to make a choice. I don't believe there is any major difference between different addictions. Quitting is always about making a choice and standing by it, everything else is details. Simple ? Yes. Easy ? No.
I do save my voicemail, as I get mine e-mailed from the phone company:-P
As to why I save it all, it's because I have to. I have to deal with many different people in many organisations that don't always see eye to eye or have the same goals and perspectives. What's more I usually have to keep em all happy. This requires a good archive and saving my e-mail is part of that. It's good to have some e-mail to wave around if fingerpointing starts. Believe me, stuff like this happens all the time, especially in larger organisations. It's also a good way to be able to transfer work to a replacement (As a consultant I get switched around projects a lot) It saves a lot of annoying phone calls if your replacement can just search your mail archive to see when you told what to who.
I did a lot of serverside work on Exchange so I know a large edb is a pain. Teach your users that say they need it how to make.pst's on cd or whatever and keep maximem mailboxsizes (up to 50MB tops) small. Works in most places.
When I learned this we only had a compiler that worked on solaris. We didn't have a fancy IDE or GUI toolkit. I don't remember what compiler we used but the tools we had were an eiffel compiler vi and gcc. Not really intuitive if you've never seen c code before;-) (I did mention this was in 1995 or so, did I ?) I think with tools such as the one in this article it would be better suited for classes such as the one I took then. We were supposed to learn Eiffel and OO programming, not fiddling around with c makefiles, which is what we ended up doing. Ofcourse when we started in c++ after that, the fiddling we did seemed trivial.
I learned OO programming in Eiffel. It's nice and structured. Never made anything useful with it though, compiling was cumbersome (Eiffel > C > binary) and it was impossible to do any GUI stuff with the tools I had back then (95 or so).
The comments I'm reading here are mostly of the 'no censorship' 'I grew up without these restrictions and turned out ok' variety. I was pondering on that (I agreed with those comments at first, I don't mind nudity and other "objectionable" content on the net) and then I realised something: My parents were also very open and honest about the things this domain is supposed to protect children from. That being said, the time they did it in made that a lot easier, because of two things:
1. Accidental exposure was a lot less probable. The media were a little more responsible in what they showed at what hour of the day. We didn't even have daytime television when I was 10. I could watch tv and not be exposed to extreme violence or nudity or whatever.
2. My parents had a lot more control over what came into the house. I could play with a computer all I wanted without seeing anything they didn't want me to see, as there was no connection to the outside world. The Internet brings everything to your doorstep, so as soon as you are behind a computer you can find just about anything you want. Because there wasn't tv all day and we only had a few channels they would usually be around when I watched it.
Now I'm not saying that kids being exposed to all kinds of nastiness is bad per se, I mean they have to learn how things are in the outside world, but don't compare it to the way things were when you grew up 20+ years ago. When I was at my computer back then (spectrum, apple II:-) ) I didn't get any messages telling me to come look at REAL RAPE PICS XXX that I didn't ask for. Things are different now and we should adapt to that.
Check out Rotterdam. Do a tour of the harbor by boat, I have done it a couple of times and it's very cool. You can see all kinds of boats, from tiny merchant ships to full size oil tankers. You might see oil platforms, all kinds of factories and the flood barrier that can close of the waterways in case of, well, floods. I think there are also some tours of the container terminals and oil refineries. A good place to start might be Industrial Tourism Rotterdam or Tourist Office Rotterdam.
Having been born there has nothing to do with my enthusiasm for the place;-)
My phone (Nokia 7110) has a jack for an external antenna, most phones sold here (Netherlands) do, mostly to be able to use an outside antenna on your car. When I put my phone into the handsfree kit, it automaticaly jacks into the external antenna as well. It would be trivial to set this up at home. You would lose the cordless functionality though. In my car I sit in the same spot all the time(well most of it, I do escape from traffic jams and actually arrive somewhere every once in a while;-) ) and I am not allowed to hold the phone in my hands so the physical connection isn't an issue. At home I tend to walk around alot while I'm on the phone.
I am not sure if these external antenna kits are readily available in the US as I noticed the last time I was there that most people prefer to hold the phone in their hands. That's one of the differences I saw between Europe and the US. In Europe a driver is defined as the person driving the car. In the US the driver is considered to be the person who got into the seat that has the steering weel in front of it. Is there anything you guys don't do while driving ?
On a related note, a friend of mine used to have a linux server in his room. As the cdplayer in it wasn't doing anything in particular on the linux side he hooked it up to provide him with music 24 hrs a day. He enjoyed that very much, until one day he decided i knew my around linux well enough and gave me (remote) access to his machine. My room was only a cpl of doors away and I can tell you The Prodigy sounds really funny when someone writes a shell script to access your cd drive every cpl of seconds;-) (this was in the days of 4x speed cd drives)
I'm no historian, but I do remember why our country chose to surrender in 1940. (I'm from the Netherlands) This was not a simple question of being overpowered, it was about the will of the Germans to turn on the population. They bombed Rotterdam and threatened to bomb the other large cities. The Dutch government then surrendered to prevent a massacre in the larger cities. So, even though the (much smaller) Dutch army would not have been a match for the German army in a longer engagement, the short war leading up to the surrender was not decided on the battlefield.
As I said, I am not a historian but it seems probable to me that the Germans used more of the same strategy in France.
I really can't see the point of this. It's not interesting or cool from a technical point of view, it's not cool in anything but a mine is bigger/faster than yours and my dick is really big enough, really ! kind of way. Just seems to me like another way to get yourself killed, in a way that might not be efficient but still very fast indeed.
From what I recall from an article about this, the technical details are handled by the phone company, they are required by law to have an infrastructure in place that can forward conversations to the police. The police just show them the paperwork and tell em which lines to tap. Sounds like the phone company involved is going to be in deep sh*t and the police isn't to blame.
I used to have a somewhat impractical desk in a previous home that almost forced me to go wireless. Extension cords were an option as well but silly enough not readily available (some people rather shop at big shiny stores that only sell boxes and not at smaller well-stocked stores that sell every cable conceivable and whatever else I would like to buy, hence in the city I used to live in only stores of the former persuasion remained)
Now that I have moved and switched desks I can plug everything in again. I will be switching back to cords as soon as I have found my old mouse and keyboard (bit of a challenge that). Aside from the security risk, a cordless keyboard is ok. But a cordless mouse will drive you crazy, if the batteries aren't dead, some other apparatus in the house disrupts reception of the signals involved. In every case you're screwed. I am really fed up with em.
Now there was a game that was great in almost every aspect. Used some of the mac-specific hardware very well. I remember friends being amazed by the fact that you could use your microphone to talk to the others in a network game. This was in a time were most peecees didn't even have proper soundcards.
Atmosphere, excellent original graphics and sound and a great story line made it perfect. The love for detail was present in almost every aspect of the game.
I havent played any of the recent Bungie games, but Marathon etc. were close to perfect.
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Or maybe just produce so much noise nobody will be able use these frequencies for anything useful...
Hmmm... Put this together with some peoples crazy wish to get their face on tv.....
That's why it is an addiction, I mean, not drinking wodka or not lighting a cigarette is a choice as well. That is the one thing that is present in all addictions, you mentally lose your ability to make a choice. I don't believe there is any major difference between different addictions. Quitting is always about making a choice and standing by it, everything else is details. Simple ? Yes. Easy ? No.
I do save my voicemail, as I get mine e-mailed from the phone company :-P
.pst's on cd or whatever and keep maximem mailboxsizes (up to 50MB tops) small. Works in most places.
As to why I save it all, it's because I have to. I have to deal with many different people in many organisations that don't always see eye to eye or have the same goals and perspectives. What's more I usually have to keep em all happy. This requires a good archive and saving my e-mail is part of that. It's good to have some e-mail to wave around if fingerpointing starts. Believe me, stuff like this happens all the time, especially in larger organisations. It's also a good way to be able to transfer work to a replacement (As a consultant I get switched around projects a lot) It saves a lot of annoying phone calls if your replacement can just search your mail archive to see when you told what to who.
I did a lot of serverside work on Exchange so I know a large edb is a pain. Teach your users that say they need it how to make
When I learned this we only had a compiler that worked on solaris. We didn't have a fancy IDE or GUI toolkit. I don't remember what compiler we used but the tools we had were an eiffel compiler vi and gcc. Not really intuitive if you've never seen c code before ;-) (I did mention this was in 1995 or so, did I ?) I think with tools such as the one in this article it would be better suited for classes such as the one I took then. We were supposed to learn Eiffel and OO programming, not fiddling around with c makefiles, which is what we ended up doing. Ofcourse when we started in c++ after that, the fiddling we did seemed trivial.
It's been a while, but that sounds familiar.
Forced OO, at least that's what I remember it by. It's good for teaching OO, as you *have* to do everything in an objectoriented manner.
I learned OO programming in Eiffel. It's nice and structured. Never made anything useful with it though, compiling was cumbersome (Eiffel > C > binary) and it was impossible to do any GUI stuff with the tools I had back then (95 or so).
I know spelling can be bad around here but a 15 year COMMA ? Hell I would have trouble making a 15 year point.
The comments I'm reading here are mostly of the 'no censorship' 'I grew up without these restrictions and turned out ok' variety. I was pondering on that (I agreed with those comments at first, I don't mind nudity and other "objectionable" content on the net) and then I realised something: My parents were also very open and honest about the things this domain is supposed to protect children from. That being said, the time they did it in made that a lot easier, because of two things:
:-) ) I didn't get any messages telling me to come look at REAL RAPE PICS XXX that I didn't ask for. Things are different now and we should adapt to that.
1. Accidental exposure was a lot less probable. The media were a little more responsible in what they showed at what hour of the day. We didn't even have daytime television when I was 10. I could watch tv and not be exposed to extreme violence or nudity or whatever.
2. My parents had a lot more control over what came into the house. I could play with a computer all I wanted without seeing anything they didn't want me to see, as there was no connection to the outside world. The Internet brings everything to your doorstep, so as soon as you are behind a computer you can find just about anything you want. Because there wasn't tv all day and we only had a few channels they would usually be around when I watched it.
Now I'm not saying that kids being exposed to all kinds of nastiness is bad per se, I mean they have to learn how things are in the outside world, but don't compare it to the way things were when you grew up 20+ years ago. When I was at my computer back then (spectrum, apple II
Having been born there has nothing to do with my enthusiasm for the place ;-)
You go to Italy for steak ? :-)
I was going to give you some pointers then I realised this means more of the good stuffs for me !!!!
So we will have human pointer devices soon ? I wonder if they will be optical and/or cordless....
My phone (Nokia 7110) has a jack for an external antenna, most phones sold here (Netherlands) do, mostly to be able to use an outside antenna on your car. When I put my phone into the handsfree kit, it automaticaly jacks into the external antenna as well. It would be trivial to set this up at home. You would lose the cordless functionality though. In my car I sit in the same spot all the time(well most of it, I do escape from traffic jams and actually arrive somewhere every once in a while ;-) ) and I am not allowed to hold the phone in my hands so the physical connection isn't an issue. At home I tend to walk around alot while I'm on the phone.
I am not sure if these external antenna kits are readily available in the US as I noticed the last time I was there that most people prefer to hold the phone in their hands. That's one of the differences I saw between Europe and the US. In Europe a driver is defined as the person driving the car. In the US the driver is considered to be the person who got into the seat that has the steering weel in front of it. Is there anything you guys don't do while driving ?
On a related note, a friend of mine used to have a linux server in his room. As the cdplayer in it wasn't doing anything in particular on the linux side he hooked it up to provide him with music 24 hrs a day. He enjoyed that very much, until one day he decided i knew my around linux well enough and gave me (remote) access to his machine. My room was only a cpl of doors away and I can tell you The Prodigy sounds really funny when someone writes a shell script to access your cd drive every cpl of seconds ;-) (this was in the days of 4x speed cd drives)
You're thinking cars with random automatic steering to help them focus on the road ?
I cannot tell people to stop talking on my lawn. Ofcourse this might be because I don't really have a lawn.
Eehm, would redundant items count ? I mean 1 digital camera, 3 pieces of clothing and 1000+ toothpicks would be covered by the description as well.
I'm no historian, but I do remember why our country chose to surrender in 1940. (I'm from the Netherlands) This was not a simple question of being overpowered, it was about the will of the Germans to turn on the population. They bombed Rotterdam and threatened to bomb the other large cities. The Dutch government then surrendered to prevent a massacre in the larger cities. So, even though the (much smaller) Dutch army would not have been a match for the German army in a longer engagement, the short war leading up to the surrender was not decided on the battlefield.
As I said, I am not a historian but it seems probable to me that the Germans used more of the same strategy in France.
I didn't think anybody used LISA's anymore ;-)
Anybody know what LISA stands for ?
I really can't see the point of this. It's not interesting or cool from a technical point of view, it's not cool in anything but a mine is bigger/faster than yours and my dick is really big enough, really ! kind of way. Just seems to me like another way to get yourself killed, in a way that might not be efficient but still very fast indeed.
From what I recall from an article about this, the technical details are handled by the phone company, they are required by law to have an infrastructure in place that can forward conversations to the police. The police just show them the paperwork and tell em which lines to tap. Sounds like the phone company involved is going to be in deep sh*t and the police isn't to blame.
LOL
U getting a % on the bandwidth sold to these guys ?
I used to have a somewhat impractical desk in a previous home that almost forced me to go wireless. Extension cords were an option as well but silly enough not readily available (some people rather shop at big shiny stores that only sell boxes and not at smaller well-stocked stores that sell every cable conceivable and whatever else I would like to buy, hence in the city I used to live in only stores of the former persuasion remained)
Now that I have moved and switched desks I can plug everything in again. I will be switching back to cords as soon as I have found my old mouse and keyboard (bit of a challenge that). Aside from the security risk, a cordless keyboard is ok. But a cordless mouse will drive you crazy, if the batteries aren't dead, some other apparatus in the house disrupts reception of the signals involved. In every case you're screwed. I am really fed up with em.
Now there was a game that was great in almost every aspect. Used some of the mac-specific hardware very well. I remember friends being amazed by the fact that you could use your microphone to talk to the others in a network game. This was in a time were most peecees didn't even have proper soundcards.
Atmosphere, excellent original graphics and sound and a great story line made it perfect. The love for detail was present in almost every aspect of the game.
I havent played any of the recent Bungie games, but Marathon etc. were close to perfect.