You must be thinking about a different server space to me then. All the servers I go back to at work are either Solaris on SPARC, i/OS on iSeries (AS/400) or z/OS on zSeries (S/390). Linux doesn't really have much traction in corporate data centres. Talk up Linux by all means, but it's not quite as dominant as you think.
Technology allows you to fight an "unbalanced" war - which, if you have the upper hand, is the only war you want to fight. It allows you to kill far more of the enemy for each death of your own. I think this probably increases conflict overall, as the high-tech powers are more willing to fight wars in which they suffer relativly few casualties, but the enemy suffers considerably more.
If everyone had exactly the same tech, then I bet that there would be far far fewer wars.
We own 5. One for my wife (first one bought). Then two for Child A and Child C. Then one for Child B (but with his money) after he saw how much Child A and Child C were enjoying them. Then one for me. Never been tempted by a PSP though.
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Somehow I don't think the PC screenshots were done with a 7300LE video card.
You're not going to get a good experience with Prey on a "reasonable, mainstream gaming PC". You'll get a "reasonable" experience. If you honestly believe that the PC you specced is "more than capable of running this game" then fair enough, but I disagree.
A good experience would be with something like SLI 7900GTX, which is going to set you back $900 just for the cards, and with a decent processor (AMD X2-4600) you're adding another $400. (You have to admit that the 2.8 Pentium D is at the slower end of the dual core spectrum)
Sure the PC is a more powerful gaming machine, but better value?
Do you know what "freedom of the press" means? I always thought that it meant that anybody could print and distribute their thoughts and ideas, not that some ill defined entity called "the press" had freedom from interference with the government.
That said, I agree with your point that it's got nothing to do with freedom of the press and a lot to do with annoyed police officers.
If it's so darned hard to measure electrical power used, should I refuse to pay my next electricity bill - because the power company couldn't possibly have measured it correctly?
Actually I would consider that to be more of a mobster than a pirate. A mobster wants you alive so that he/she can get repeat payments, whereas a pirate doesn't care since he/she is interested in armed robbery - with murder thrown in to get rid of the witnesses.
And just how different to the US imposing tariffs on steel imports to protect US manufacturers, providing "assistance" to US aerospace companies, preventing the purchase of Unocal by a chinese oil company?
Sure the French are protectionist, but you can't claim that the US isn't either - and until you can, the word "hypocrisy" rings a bit hollow.
It's my hobby, I enjoy doing it. I enjoy sifting between the different graphics cards etc that I could buy and install. Sure if it wasn't my hobby and I simply used my computer for something else then I would buy a Dell (or something else).
Is it so wrong to enjoy assembling computers? It is, after all, grown up Lego with higher stakes for when you get it wrong...
Because private hospitals, as a general rule, don't have intensive care / high dependency units.
So if something goes really wrong with your appendectomy (for example) - like they sever a major blood vessel by accident - then what the private hospital will do is put you in an ambulance and take you to the nearest NHS hostpital - that does have an intensive care / HDU.
Do you want to run the risk of dying in the Ambulance? Just so that you can have tea and cakes when you come round from the anasthetic?
Your points are well made, and mostly correct. I believe that the article *was* talking specifically about England. The NHS in England and Wales is run by Westminster, however NHS Scotland is run by the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Also seperate are the court and education system.
You will see a lot of statistics out there which are based on figures taken only from England and Wales, because Scotland does not have the same set of laws / conditions / spending. England and Wales are essentially a single administrative and legislative unit.
For example, there exists a smoking ban in Scotland, but not in England and Wales. Fox Hunting was banned in Scotland in 2002, but not until 2004 in England and Wales.
You mean like Intel's Slot 1 and AMD's Slot A designs from 5 years ago? Which put the processor on a card, which also contained high speed memory and was slotted into the motherboard?
Of course the reason for it then was because they couldn't get the enough L2 cache on the chip itself so they built an external cache at 1/2 CPU speed. As soon as they could fit the L2 cache they wanted onto the chip they moved away from the slot design because it's far more expensive to make.
Thats like saying life insurance is worthless until your dead. While true (and why I don't have much), many people still find plenty of value in the comfort that they are protected "just in case".
Strictly speaking, it's life assurance, not life insurance. Insurance is for something that might happen, assurance is for something that will happen.
I think after maybe a couple of months, very usable.
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Just to correct you regarding the remote invocation stuff, there isn't three types of remote invocation, there are two. RMI or CORBA. You use RMI when doing Java to Java, and CORBA when doing Java to Other Language. IIOP is the low level protocol used when doing the communication, and it's a CORBA originated protocol. (The Java original was JRMP - Java Remote Method Protocol).
So you have RMI-IIOP, CORBA-IIOP or RMI-JRMP, but programmatically, it's just RMI or CORBA. You wouldn't use CORBA to do Java to Java, (RMI is much simpler) and if you're doing RMI then it will automatically be over IIOP.
Stanley Kubrick shot Eyes Wide Shut on 4:3 (sort of, it was 35mm film - 1.37:1), then masked off the top and bottom to get a theatrical release at 1.85:1.
If you search IMDB for the ratio of the negative, you'll get loads of films shot "full frame" and then top and bottom masked to get widescreen.
In the UK you have something called Termination Call costs, which is a price that the company A charges company B when a customer on company B's network calls a customer on company A.
There has been much gnashing of teeth over this, because everyone was charging everyone else an arm and a leg (therefore ensuring that a nice fat profit was made) and the government regulator investigated and told the companies to reduce their prices. Don't know if they've done it yet.
Haven't got the links to hand, but essentially because it's currently impossible to destroy hurricanes. The amount of energy involved in a typical hurricane dwarfs the energy in nuclear weapons, and blowing up a 50 megaton bomb in the middle of a hurricane wouldn't actually make a difference.
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You must be thinking about a different server space to me then. All the servers I go back to at work are either Solaris on SPARC, i/OS on iSeries (AS/400) or z/OS on zSeries (S/390). Linux doesn't really have much traction in corporate data centres. Talk up Linux by all means, but it's not quite as dominant as you think.
add Bronze Working and The Wheel, so I can get a chariot!
Technology allows you to fight an "unbalanced" war - which, if you have the upper hand, is the only war you want to fight. It allows you to kill far more of the enemy for each death of your own. I think this probably increases conflict overall, as the high-tech powers are more willing to fight wars in which they suffer relativly few casualties, but the enemy suffers considerably more.
If everyone had exactly the same tech, then I bet that there would be far far fewer wars.
We own 5. One for my wife (first one bought). Then two for Child A and Child C. Then one for Child B (but with his money) after he saw how much Child A and Child C were enjoying them. Then one for me. Never been tempted by a PSP though.
Somehow I don't think the PC screenshots were done with a 7300LE video card.
You're not going to get a good experience with Prey on a "reasonable, mainstream gaming PC". You'll get a "reasonable" experience. If you honestly believe that the PC you specced is "more than capable of running this game" then fair enough, but I disagree.
A good experience would be with something like SLI 7900GTX, which is going to set you back $900 just for the cards, and with a decent processor (AMD X2-4600) you're adding another $400. (You have to admit that the 2.8 Pentium D is at the slower end of the dual core spectrum)
Sure the PC is a more powerful gaming machine, but better value?
I think that's the most accurate comment made so far
Do you know what "freedom of the press" means? I always thought that it meant that anybody could print and distribute their thoughts and ideas, not that some ill defined entity called "the press" had freedom from interference with the government.
That said, I agree with your point that it's got nothing to do with freedom of the press and a lot to do with annoyed police officers.
If it's so darned hard to measure electrical power used, should I refuse to pay my next electricity bill - because the power company couldn't possibly have measured it correctly?
Actually I would consider that to be more of a mobster than a pirate. A mobster wants you alive so that he/she can get repeat payments, whereas a pirate doesn't care since he/she is interested in armed robbery - with murder thrown in to get rid of the witnesses.
And just how different to the US imposing tariffs on steel imports to protect US manufacturers, providing "assistance" to US aerospace companies, preventing the purchase of Unocal by a chinese oil company?
Sure the French are protectionist, but you can't claim that the US isn't either - and until you can, the word "hypocrisy" rings a bit hollow.
XML - internally Unicode, externally normally UTF-8 Which for "latin" characters looks like ASCII.. but isn't
You see, XML supports non-latin characters which don't exist in ASCII
Offtopic I know, sorry.
It's my hobby, I enjoy doing it. I enjoy sifting between the different graphics cards etc that I could buy and install. Sure if it wasn't my hobby and I simply used my computer for something else then I would buy a Dell (or something else).
Is it so wrong to enjoy assembling computers? It is, after all, grown up Lego with higher stakes for when you get it wrong...
Because private hospitals, as a general rule, don't have intensive care / high dependency units.
So if something goes really wrong with your appendectomy (for example) - like they sever a major blood vessel by accident - then what the private hospital will do is put you in an ambulance and take you to the nearest NHS hostpital - that does have an intensive care / HDU.
Do you want to run the risk of dying in the Ambulance? Just so that you can have tea and cakes when you come round from the anasthetic?
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Your points are well made, and mostly correct. I believe that the article *was* talking specifically about England. The NHS in England and Wales is run by Westminster, however NHS Scotland is run by the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Also seperate are the court and education system.
You will see a lot of statistics out there which are based on figures taken only from England and Wales, because Scotland does not have the same set of laws / conditions / spending. England and Wales are essentially a single administrative and legislative unit.
For example, there exists a smoking ban in Scotland, but not in England and Wales. Fox Hunting was banned in Scotland in 2002, but not until 2004 in England and Wales.
This has been covered: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
You mean like Intel's Slot 1 and AMD's Slot A designs from 5 years ago? Which put the processor on a card, which also contained high speed memory and was slotted into the motherboard?
Of course the reason for it then was because they couldn't get the enough L2 cache on the chip itself so they built an external cache at 1/2 CPU speed. As soon as they could fit the L2 cache they wanted onto the chip they moved away from the slot design because it's far more expensive to make.
Thats like saying life insurance is worthless until your dead. While true (and why I don't have much), many people still find plenty of value in the comfort that they are protected "just in case".
Strictly speaking, it's life assurance, not life insurance. Insurance is for something that might happen, assurance is for something that will happen.
The government wouldn't put it behind your left ear, it would be too easy to cut off. Embedded somewhere in the middle of your chest is better.
I think after maybe a couple of months, very usable.
Just to correct you regarding the remote invocation stuff, there isn't three types of remote invocation, there are two. RMI or CORBA. You use RMI when doing Java to Java, and CORBA when doing Java to Other Language. IIOP is the low level protocol used when doing the communication, and it's a CORBA originated protocol. (The Java original was JRMP - Java Remote Method Protocol).
So you have RMI-IIOP, CORBA-IIOP or RMI-JRMP, but programmatically, it's just RMI or CORBA. You wouldn't use CORBA to do Java to Java, (RMI is much simpler) and if you're doing RMI then it will automatically be over IIOP.
Stanley Kubrick shot Eyes Wide Shut on 4:3 (sort of, it was 35mm film - 1.37:1), then masked off the top and bottom to get a theatrical release at 1.85:1.
If you search IMDB for the ratio of the negative, you'll get loads of films shot "full frame" and then top and bottom masked to get widescreen.
Because it already is?
In the UK you have something called Termination Call costs, which is a price that the company A charges company B when a customer on company B's network calls a customer on company A.
There has been much gnashing of teeth over this, because everyone was charging everyone else an arm and a leg (therefore ensuring that a nice fat profit was made) and the government regulator investigated and told the companies to reduce their prices. Don't know if they've done it yet.
Haven't got the links to hand, but essentially because it's currently impossible to destroy hurricanes. The amount of energy involved in a typical hurricane dwarfs the energy in nuclear weapons, and blowing up a 50 megaton bomb in the middle of a hurricane wouldn't actually make a difference.