Yes, I've heard that too (and not just from Americans). However the dialect is based on west-country English (as in Plymouth) rather than London. Interestingly enough I've heard the same about Spanish being closer to the original in Mexico rather than Spain.
Chocolate in Belgium should be regulated as a drug not a food stuff, especially if you go after the high cocoa content ones. It is also about as addictive as crack (and as expensive).
You can't drink 8 pints of any of the ones you name (WHY do you name tetley and Caffreys ? - which ARE both awful), but you can of the less full flavoured ones you don't like.
I've had the pleasure of drinking Tetley's in West Yorkshire, where it is brewed. It should have a sell-by-distance rather than a date as further away than Sheffield and it tastes a mere shadow of its former self. It is an excellent beer but it doesn't travel worth a damn. It is also not particularly alcoholic. Maybe not as little as the lite beers but you can drink a lot in an evening without falling over. Real ales that travel well tend to be quite strong.
Wasn't it was more the pressure on accounting companies to separate from their consulting divisions. Having both together ws being flagged as a massive clash of interest since the early nineties. Also the partnership model was seen to be limiting to growth. Accenture still uses a 'virtual partnership' system for profit sharing but it is now conventionally incorporated.
Glad to have a 'drivers' viewpoint. Digital technology is particularly an issue. Anything pulsing a carrier will be generated a lot of harmonics (at odd multiples). That GSM causes interference on AM is verifiable so I consider Mythbusters, busted in this case.
Yes, sometimes I take Mythbusters with a pinch of salt. OTOH some idiot left their phone on near the cockpit. As we landed, the clicking of the GSM handshake was clearly audible over the PA. A GSM phone near audio or AM wiring definitely causes audible interference. Its particularly a problem with systems like GSM because of the use of pulses. It isn't hard to imagine that giving some issues with some of the equipment used for ILS or Navigation, especially if we are talking about lots of mobiles at the same time.
No the patent said connection between exchanges via the internet *or* any other public network. And by the way, any non-voice band signalling is denoted as out-of-band. The important thing is that data networks have existed for a while and people have been digitising voice and slinging it over networks for a *long* time.
You made a very good point on X.25. The switch manufacturers used it for intercommunication but the important thing was that it was switches, i.e., you stuffed whatever in the packet, be it data or voice and then you put a destination address on the call and it could be routed through a network whether public or private. X.25 was just one low level protocol that was used to setup a point to point connection over a switched network.
I work for a while at a sub of Alcatel in the late eighties in Europe. PBXs were definitely being connected over a LAN (at 10MB/s) and generally sharing traffic with IP and DDCMP. The end-users had either analog telephones or early generation ISDN phones. I know that Nortel were doing similar stuff as were Bosch and Siemens. By the mid nineties, most digital switches chatted using IP.
Apparently, the units they have (at least the dev units) are not approved for general manufacture because their radiation emissions. This is pretty common for dev units.
I think you will find they are talking about electromagnetic interference and lack of FCC certification. Not much problem unless someone is trying to use a radio nearby. Getting something through FCC certification is not lightly to be undertaken and definitely not until the hardware design is 100% stable.
Thank heavens someone finally noted the screen. My $1K dell is useless in direct sunlight and even the shade can be insufficient. That, plus power and the general rugged design mean that it is a killer for outdoor applications.
That was definitely an overreaction. If a sargent can't insult a recruit for any particular politically incorrect reason, then it is going to be very difficult to put people through basic. The person concerned was the spokesman for homeland security and actually had a background in the army (about 20 or so years) so was probably a loss.
The upgrades can work ok especially off CD but you can also accumulate a lot of cruft, old libraries and discontinued packages. I just tend to backup/etc (there are always some config files you want to resurrect) and blow away everything except/home and/usr/local (non-rpm stuff for me) and even the latter usually wants a rebuild to use the latest libraries.
The basic risk calcs for derivatives come somewhere out of advanced thermodynamics. Like most banks, we are stuffed full of Physics Phds in the quants dept so the maths tends to be hairy. The product range can go from the settlement risk on a simple equities transaction to advanced exotic products which may combine different producst such as FX, Fixed Income and Equities. If you can equate each conditonal to a moving part, we are way beyond a space shuttle in complexity. In construction you tend to use well proven components, i.e. a brick. You know how bricks can be joined, how high you can pile them and how much load then can bear. In software we still have issues with componentisation.
There is no software that is so complex that it trumps the complexity of an orbital spacecraft.
How do you judge this? A signoff per LOC may be excessive under normal, i.e. non-safety critical circumstances but isn't the old rule of thumb, one part design, one part build and one part test?
Many years ago I worked in computer-aided design in the construction industry. We did finite elements, draughting and BOM as well as visualisation. I have worked in the petrochemical industry on telemetry and plant supervisory systems. I now work on risk control systems for a (very) large international bank. I can safely say of these, the latter represents the most complex collection of systems I have had to deal with (and I'm not just dealing with the computers there). However, I would agree that actual professional engineers would be a good idea, but they would have to be running things. It is usually pressure from the top that causes things like testing to be cut and random outsourcing to be used.
That is a general comment on WiFi 'installation crews' from whichever retail company. They don't check channel usage at a location and tend to leave servers on defaults. Get a couple of base stations on the same channel and it won't be so much of a problem but more and the range drops off dramatically.
Have an overseas registered car and then you never need to worry about the notices. One of the gotchas at the moment is that they still need to show the intention to prosecute within a short timescale of the alleged offence (two weeks, I believe). Apart from the fact that the authorities don't seem to be able to properly capture a foreign registration, they can't get the data out of the other EU countries fast enough. At least, not yet. I understand that the congestion charge system can't even bill credit cards with overseas addresses. It appears that the private companies that administer these fixed penalty systems haven't worked out that thousands of foreign registered cars arrive in the UK every day.
A fixed penalty notice is usually offered as a discounted alternative to appearing in court. You can theoretically choose still to apear in court but you must then expect to pay costs as well as a fine if you lose.
It is called the European Court of Human Rights. Although dreadfully inconvenient for some, all EU countries must sign the Human Rights treaty. It cannot stop a country from going to war but it can protect the citizens of the country from its excesses.
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Yes, I've heard that too (and not just from Americans). However the dialect is based on west-country English (as in Plymouth) rather than London. Interestingly enough I've heard the same about Spanish being closer to the original in Mexico rather than Spain.
Chocolate in Belgium should be regulated as a drug not a food stuff, especially if you go after the high cocoa content ones. It is also about as addictive as crack (and as expensive).
Yes they learned their lessons well from permitting poor revolutionaries like Karl Marx and Lenin to forment trouble from the safety of London.
Wasn't it was more the pressure on accounting companies to separate from their consulting divisions. Having both together ws being flagged as a massive clash of interest since the early nineties. Also the partnership model was seen to be limiting to growth. Accenture still uses a 'virtual partnership' system for profit sharing but it is now conventionally incorporated.
Glad to have a 'drivers' viewpoint. Digital technology is particularly an issue. Anything pulsing a carrier will be generated a lot of harmonics (at odd multiples). That GSM causes interference on AM is verifiable so I consider Mythbusters, busted in this case.
Yes, sometimes I take Mythbusters with a pinch of salt. OTOH some idiot left their phone on near the cockpit. As we landed, the clicking of the GSM handshake was clearly audible over the PA. A GSM phone near audio or AM wiring definitely causes audible interference. Its particularly a problem with systems like GSM because of the use of pulses. It isn't hard to imagine that giving some issues with some of the equipment used for ILS or Navigation, especially if we are talking about lots of mobiles at the same time.
No the patent said connection between exchanges via the internet *or* any other public network. And by the way, any non-voice band signalling is denoted as out-of-band. The important thing is that data networks have existed for a while and people have been digitising voice and slinging it over networks for a *long* time.
You made a very good point on X.25. The switch manufacturers used it for intercommunication but the important thing was that it was switches, i.e., you stuffed whatever in the packet, be it data or voice and then you put a destination address on the call and it could be routed through a network whether public or private. X.25 was just one low level protocol that was used to setup a point to point connection over a switched network.
I work for a while at a sub of Alcatel in the late eighties in Europe. PBXs were definitely being connected over a LAN (at 10MB/s) and generally sharing traffic with IP and DDCMP. The end-users had either analog telephones or early generation ISDN phones. I know that Nortel were doing similar stuff as were Bosch and Siemens. By the mid nineties, most digital switches chatted using IP.
Thank heavens someone finally noted the screen. My $1K dell is useless in direct sunlight and even the shade can be insufficient. That, plus power and the general rugged design mean that it is a killer for outdoor applications.
That was definitely an overreaction. If a sargent can't insult a recruit for any particular politically incorrect reason, then it is going to be very difficult to put people through basic. The person concerned was the spokesman for homeland security and actually had a background in the army (about 20 or so years) so was probably a loss.
The upgrades can work ok especially off CD but you can also accumulate a lot of cruft, old libraries and discontinued packages. I just tend to backup /etc (there are always some config files you want to resurrect) and blow away everything except /home and /usr/local (non-rpm stuff for me) and even the latter usually wants a rebuild to use the latest libraries.
The basic risk calcs for derivatives come somewhere out of advanced thermodynamics. Like most banks, we are stuffed full of Physics Phds in the quants dept so the maths tends to be hairy. The product range can go from the settlement risk on a simple equities transaction to advanced exotic products which may combine different producst such as FX, Fixed Income and Equities. If you can equate each conditonal to a moving part, we are way beyond a space shuttle in complexity. In construction you tend to use well proven components, i.e. a brick. You know how bricks can be joined, how high you can pile them and how much load then can bear. In software we still have issues with componentisation.
I think I know exculpate and could infer inculpate. However you are quite right that you have to be exact before answering the lawyer.
The older models (again, remember this is 2004) didn't. All they had was a reset button on the back to recover from bad configvurations.
How do you judge this? A signoff per LOC may be excessive under normal, i.e. non-safety critical circumstances but isn't the old rule of thumb, one part design, one part build and one part test?
Many years ago I worked in computer-aided design in the construction industry. We did finite elements, draughting and BOM as well as visualisation. I have worked in the petrochemical industry on telemetry and plant supervisory systems. I now work on risk control systems for a (very) large international bank. I can safely say of these, the latter represents the most complex collection of systems I have had to deal with (and I'm not just dealing with the computers there). However, I would agree that actual professional engineers would be a good idea, but they would have to be running things. It is usually pressure from the top that causes things like testing to be cut and random outsourcing to be used.
That is a general comment on WiFi 'installation crews' from whichever retail company. They don't check channel usage at a location and tend to leave servers on defaults. Get a couple of base stations on the same channel and it won't be so much of a problem but more and the range drops off dramatically.
Have an overseas registered car and then you never need to worry about the notices. One of the gotchas at the moment is that they still need to show the intention to prosecute within a short timescale of the alleged offence (two weeks, I believe). Apart from the fact that the authorities don't seem to be able to properly capture a foreign registration, they can't get the data out of the other EU countries fast enough. At least, not yet. I understand that the congestion charge system can't even bill credit cards with overseas addresses. It appears that the private companies that administer these fixed penalty systems haven't worked out that thousands of foreign registered cars arrive in the UK every day.
A fixed penalty notice is usually offered as a discounted alternative to appearing in court. You can theoretically choose still to apear in court but you must then expect to pay costs as well as a fine if you lose.
It is called the European Court of Human Rights. Although dreadfully inconvenient for some, all EU countries must sign the Human Rights treaty. It cannot stop a country from going to war but it can protect the citizens of the country from its excesses.
Ah, no Islamics or Catholics allowed. They obviously had the right idea even then!!!!
No - Blair is a Cylon!
uYes, Douglas Adams divided Humanity into three arks, the A ark which contained the leaders, the thinkers and the the C ark which contained the workers and the B ark which contained middle management and misc service personal (telephone sanitizers). Arks A and C suffered catastrophic failure and only the B ark survived. In short we are the descendants of those in the B ark. In the Adams case the world was already about to be destroyed so the risk had to be taken. However, we know the earth won't last forever and if we don't go anywhere else, we remain at risk from interplanetary billiards or gamma-ray bursts.