This building houses a couple of thousand people on 5 floors. there's 4 meeting rooms on each floor, ech holding a maximum of 10 people...
Only Senior Managers are Important enough to have laptops - and even if I were a PHB, and managed to aquire a laptop, and find a spare(ha!) meeting room - theres no network jacks in the meeting rooms.
We're a FTSE 100 company, the offices are a joke!!!
I guess cuz converting chemical energy (diesel fuel) to electrical energy to kinetic energy would be very inefficient(i.e. expensive!) compared to chemical -> kintic (still inefficient but not as bad).
It has to be done with trains because of the gearing/torque/clutch problems others have mentioned but that isn't a problem with cars, as they have a much lower intertial mass.
I'm in the uk and office culture here is open plan offices. There's about 2500 people in this building alone, and this building is but one of about 30 around the country and they're all the same. Nobody,, not even the board of directors has private offices, nobody has cubicles. All we have is an 18inch tall panels on the back and side of my desk seperating me from the others. The clusters of desks are a bout 3 feet appart. It's like that in just about every large UK office. I've never worked in a cubicle or my own 1 person-to-a-room office in the 20 odd years I've been programming
I remember with fondness the big old solid metal cased IBM keyboards, I guess the fondness comes from the fact that it was my first pc (well, ok, the companies, but the first one I used). But I would actually much prefer a modern quiet membrane keyboard. I work in an open plan office with desks in clusters of 4, and it's very distracting whne you're trying to pin down a bug and having to think and concentrate but your neighbour is clacking away typing an email (or a slashdot post!) The keyboards we have now are Compaq (well, probably not, but that's what it says on the label) and they are quite noisy when you're typing quickly, and very distracting. My keyboard at home (generic no-name $15.00 membrane keyboard) is much quieter and even has a nicer feel. It has all hose fancy media and internet buttons which I never use, I bought it cuz I needed a new keyboard fats and didn't have much money. I went for the cheapest on the shelf and was actually pleasently surprised.
The other thing I like about mebrane keyboards is that they're very easy to strip down and clean when the accumulated crud from sandwich crumbs and cake bars gets too much!
Actually, the BBC is PUBLICLY funded - paid for by the people. Each home or office that has a tv pays an annual license fee. this explains it, probably not the best article but the best I can do as I'm busy.
Because it's a publicly funded body, it makes quality word-class programmes and it's news service is second to none imho. And best of all, no damned stupid adverts!!!!
It cannot be embedded in R^3, but it sure can be represented in r^3. See here
It's like saying you cant represent a cube in R^2, or any other 3d shape we commonly see represented on our computer monitors and tv screens, which are 2d last time I looked:)
I agree, I was just reporting what they *claim* to be using. I found it very odd that their home page diodn't mention the new Linux site at all, in fact the last news item on theor homepage was dated in 2001.
Slashdot is more than just a news site, it's a community where nerds and geeks can discuss (with varying degrees of intellegence) the issues of the day appertaining to the geek community.
This new site is purely news as far as I can tell. No feedback, no user comments (just a lame survey that doesn't even display the right count of votes on the main page)
Anyone can do this using rdf feeds or the php scripts someone else mentioned.
We use SuSE Linux 7.1 (Linux 2.4.9 with X11 and KDE 2.2) operating system for our web development workstations. Our other tools include Corel Photo-Paint 9, the GIMP 1.2, various GNU Project tools, and a few different text editors (including Kate and Pico). We do not use any WYSIWYG tools for creating our site so that we can achieve the highest level of compatiblity with all modern web browsers.
What CGI scripts do you use?
We use many of our own tools including our free StatsPlus, Go2It!, ReadyForm, GuestCall 2000 and a custom set of registration and downloading scripts. If you're interested in more of the details of our CGI setup, please feel free to contact us at contact@uninetsolutions.com.
lol. Isn't slashdot great. people read the synopsis posted on the front page, can't be arsed to go actuall READ the article, and then go posting comments based on what they tyhink might be in the article. I love it.;)
I've always thought that to make an intellegent comment or observation, it helps to understand what you're commenting on, but hey, this is slashdot;)
For some time now, I've been concerned that I've not given you any donations to improve the lives of people worse off than myself. I am therefore rectifying the situation by enclosing a cheque for $1,000,000. Oh, by the way, I obtained this money by killing a fellow human being just so I could make this donation and save more lives. I hope you find this acceptable.
July 1, 2002 | The men who ran Website Results, an Internet marketing company, had a unique test for gauging the moral fiber of their employees. According to former colleagues, Ronald J. Penna, Michael K. Osborn and Kevin Smith used to pose this question: Imagine there's a peasant somewhere halfway across the world. If you could push a button and kill the person without getting caught, would you do it for a million dollars?
Life is precious, mine, yours, anyones. The fact that anyone would be willing to kill a fellow human being for money, no matter how much, is apalling to me.
Kamel is asked often why those without sight would need to draw something they cannot see.
"There are many people out there who can't understand that blind people have imaginations, just as sighted people do," he said. "For me, it's all about independence."
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thinking rooms? laptops? man-speak-foreign-tongue.
This building houses a couple of thousand people on 5 floors. there's 4 meeting rooms on each floor, ech holding a maximum of 10 people...
Only Senior Managers are Important enough to have laptops - and even if I were a PHB, and managed to aquire a laptop, and find a spare(ha!) meeting room - theres no network jacks in the meeting rooms.
We're a FTSE 100 company, the offices are a joke!!!
I guess cuz converting chemical energy (diesel fuel) to electrical energy to kinetic energy would be very inefficient(i.e. expensive!) compared to chemical -> kintic (still inefficient but not as bad).
It has to be done with trains because of the gearing/torque/clutch problems others have mentioned but that isn't a problem with cars, as they have a much lower intertial mass.
Very very unlikely to happen.
I'm in the uk and office culture here is open plan offices. There's about 2500 people in this building alone, and this building is but one of about 30 around the country and they're all the same. Nobody,, not even the board of directors has private offices, nobody has cubicles. All we have is an 18inch tall panels on the back and side of my desk seperating me from the others. The clusters of desks are a bout 3 feet appart. It's like that in just about every large UK office. I've never worked in a cubicle or my own 1 person-to-a-room office in the 20 odd years I've been programming
I remember with fondness the big old solid metal cased IBM keyboards, I guess the fondness comes from the fact that it was my first pc (well, ok, the companies, but the first one I used). But I would actually much prefer a modern quiet membrane keyboard. I work in an open plan office with desks in clusters of 4, and it's very distracting whne you're trying to pin down a bug and having to think and concentrate but your neighbour is clacking away typing an email (or a slashdot post!) The keyboards we have now are Compaq (well, probably not, but that's what it says on the label) and they are quite noisy when you're typing quickly, and very distracting. My keyboard at home (generic no-name $15.00 membrane keyboard) is much quieter and even has a nicer feel. It has all hose fancy media and internet buttons which I never use, I bought it cuz I needed a new keyboard fats and didn't have much money. I went for the cheapest on the shelf and was actually pleasently surprised.
The other thing I like about mebrane keyboards is that they're very easy to strip down and clean when the accumulated crud from sandwich crumbs and cake bars gets too much!
Try Amazon.co.uk
Harry Potter DVD - £16.99
Soundtrack CD £17.99
Truly Bizarre!!!
You're welcome. There was someone on here who used to have the sig "'i-before-e' rules are weird and unscientific."
;)
I can only speak a little bit of perl, My native tongue is C
Actually, the BBC is PUBLICLY funded - paid for by the people. Each home or office that has a tv pays an annual license fee. this explains it, probably not the best article but the best I can do as I'm busy.
Because it's a publicly funded body, it makes quality word-class programmes and it's news service is second to none imho. And best of all, no damned stupid adverts!!!!
It cannot be embedded in R^3, but it sure can be represented in r^3. See here
:)
It's like saying you cant represent a cube in R^2, or any other 3d shape we commonly see represented on our computer monitors and tv screens, which are 2d last time I looked
You mean these ?
your sig has a spelling mistake. It's "Deity"
:)
otherwise, it's cool
I agree, I was just reporting what they *claim* to be using. I found it very odd that their home page diodn't mention the new Linux site at all, in fact the last news item on theor homepage was dated in 2001.
All a bit strange!
Slashdot is more than just a news site, it's a community where nerds and geeks can discuss (with varying degrees of intellegence) the issues of the day appertaining to the geek community.
This new site is purely news as far as I can tell. No feedback, no user comments (just a lame survey that doesn't even display the right count of votes on the main page)
Anyone can do this using rdf feeds or the php scripts someone else mentioned.
It's done by UniversalNetworks and their site states:
What software do you use to develop your site?
We use SuSE Linux 7.1 (Linux 2.4.9 with X11 and KDE 2.2) operating system for our web development workstations. Our other tools include Corel Photo-Paint 9, the GIMP 1.2, various GNU Project tools, and a few different text editors (including Kate and Pico). We do not use any WYSIWYG tools for creating our site so that we can achieve the highest level of compatiblity with all modern web browsers.
What CGI scripts do you use?
We use many of our own tools including our free StatsPlus, Go2It!, ReadyForm, GuestCall 2000 and a custom set of registration and downloading scripts. If you're interested in more of the details of our CGI setup, please feel free to contact us at contact@uninetsolutions.com.
... they're not running on slashcode!!!
lol. Isn't slashdot great. people read the synopsis posted on the front page, can't be arsed to go actuall READ the article, and then go posting comments based on what they tyhink might be in the article. I love it. ;)
;)
I've always thought that to make an intellegent comment or observation, it helps to understand what you're commenting on, but hey, this is slashdot
no prob. didn't take it as an insult at all. I'm pretty thick-skinned - you have to around here!!!
Wouldn't buy a playstation, I have a pc :)
Actually I'm pretty much done buying toys (but that iPod sure looks tempting now that the pc software is about ready)
I actually do donate 10% of my income to charity
Huh???? wtf are you smoking???
Dear Oxfam,
For some time now, I've been concerned that I've not given you any donations to improve the lives of people worse off than myself. I am therefore rectifying the situation by enclosing a cheque for $1,000,000. Oh, by the way, I obtained this money by killing a fellow human being just so I could make this donation and save more lives. I hope you find this acceptable.
I don't think so!
"From there, the heat has to get into the metal by conduction."
So the metal heats up!!!! doesnt matter wether it's by radiation, convection or conduction. The metal will HEAT UP!!! it has to, to melt!
ummm no.....
I was talking about Human life. Imho, animals were put on the earth as a food supply. I have no problem with that at all.
Are you sure you read the article?
1st paragraph...
July 1, 2002 | The men who ran Website Results, an Internet marketing company, had a unique test for gauging the moral fiber of their employees. According to former colleagues, Ronald J. Penna, Michael K. Osborn and Kevin Smith used to pose this question: Imagine there's a peasant somewhere halfway across the world. If you could push a button and kill the person without getting caught, would you do it for a million dollars?
me for a start.
Life is precious, mine, yours, anyones. The fact that anyone would be willing to kill a fellow human being for money, no matter how much, is apalling to me.
You mean like this button???
so WHO just hacked slashdot???? all links were broken, kept taking me back to main page. Very funny. NOT
didja read the article?
Kamel is asked often why those without sight would need to draw something they cannot see.
"There are many people out there who can't understand that blind people have imaginations, just as sighted people do," he said. "For me, it's all about independence."