The MOD produced this document that apparently nobody was reading. It doesn't really contain much that is contentious, so why not leak it and have everyone reading it.
I absolutely agree. It is possible to find laptops that can be taken outside, say Panasonic's Toughbooks - not at all cheap. The market is a niche because it is aimed at people like the military or the largest construction companies. Unfortunately, they are a tad expensive to be used for many other outdoor persuits like field research.
A commercial OLPC for adults that was aimed at the low-end of the Toughbook territory, in other words, a hardened netbook would have been extremely successful for all kinds of low-end commercial stuff like data logging etc or even more general outdoor use.
As for kids, why not just a partnership eith Fischer Price or something?
Can we drop the whole 'microsoft killed the OLPC' thing?
But they and Intel did, didn't they? I would actually say that their 'marketing efforts' in several countries was questionnable under the FCPA.The other thing that shafted it was the initial failure to sell it in the west. Heck they could even have given the marketing to Fischer-Price (the colours were about right).
The OLPC was not about shipping a PC, rather than a multi-purpose enabling device for access to education. Sure Sugar is eminently hackable but simply the ability to mesh network and to work as an electronic book was something special and to be able to do so in countries that are very unfriendly to conventional laptops.
Private insurers are not dead in the UK. It is just the theft that private insureres get away with in other countries is not viable in the UK so they must concentrate on things like hotel services (upmarket rooms).
I can only concurr at a lower (user) level. Sharepoint is a tool that isn't totally unsuitable for the various tasks it uis used for, but far from perfect.
I have used Sharepoint on several recent jobs as it has replaces several open-source type systems from Wikis or whatever. I have been working at sites where they can spend serious money on online document management but have 'bought' Sharepoint. Getting the security working correctly was a problem (multiple domains). It performs like a dead dog, especially on large documents and whilst user friendly, that isn't very relevant due to the lack of performance.
and see a postage stamp...
Some GPS screens are a decent size, but many are tiny. You try getting an overview of a route from say Paris to Berlin using that.
RSX-11M and RSX-11M+ would normally be built from assembler source that was supplied. The code was full of macros and conditionals to ensure that the exec was built optimally for the hardware environment and the features that you needed. Many utilities were provided as object modules but the exec was always there as source.
OpenVMS currently runs small things like the US Army's pay system and several major financial markets. Development has slowed considerably now, it doesn't have so many friends at HP but I beleieve that support must contnue until 2020.
There is something called FreeVMS. Very incomplete but it apparently boots.
I've been to places like the City of London, Paris, etc.. Pretty much no chance to get an accurate location in the narrow streets.
A GPS also typically presents a very small view onto a route with no abaility to get an overview of the surrounding area. Sometimes it may really be better to go from A to C via B for other reasons. This in particular can be mitigated by the use of other services such as Google Earth/Maps on a laptop as a backup.
So-called netbooks are very popular now as portable machines. They weigh next to nothing and they are dirt cheap, in case the DHS take it away (i.e., you can have a spare) or it gets stolen. Students love them for note taking.
Unless you're on a no-fly list you're going to able to fly out of the country. There's no outbound passport control in the US.
For non-resident aliens, yes. You are supposed to identify yourselves to an INS rep and give him the funger. He will do something with your visa, photograph and fingerprint and give you a receipt to say you legally left the country. Without that, non-res aliens won't be allowed back in.
This is known phenomenon with pigs in particular but is potentially with any animal for slaughter. Remember that meat is muscle which in life is hooked up to nerves and a blood supply. If the animal is stressed, hormones circulate and glycogen is broken down into glucode and water. If the animal is under high stress, then the glucode is not fully metabolised ending up as lactic acid. Too much lactic acid means that the meat becomes pale, soft and seeping fluid after slaughter. If the animals were using their muscles a lot (i.e. transportation stress) then the glycogen may be exhausetd casing the meat to be to dark, dry and hard.
I like a larger sensor, but don 't need the extra pixels. It's partly down to the high pixel density why we have so many problems with low-light noise.
I think you'll find that this was probabaly down to the costs of having the parts made and the maybe one person who was officially on the project. A lot of skilled people gave some serious time to the project. If you included their time, it would be much more.
Bletchley Park is still hanging there. It has bits of various machines such as Atlas onwards (sorry to say that I used the Atlas many, many years ago in its last year of operation). It even has a PDP-11/34 and a MicroVAX. The latter machines, I believe are complete and working.
Colossus was developed for breaking cryptographic material (Fish) from Lorenz telex style stream ciphering machines (Tunny). Enigma was broken by the Bombes which were more mechanical in nature.
All quite clear if you visit Bletchley Park in the UK, the rather lower budget British museum of cryptography and computing. Both the Colossus and Bombe reconstruction projects were run out of BP and if are lucky you can get a talk on their operation from Tony Sale or one of the other builders.
Apparently this has been called "rule by fax", however resented, the benefits of EEA membership outweigh this major disadvantage. Eventually EU membership has the real advantage, but the Lisbon process is needed to make it more practical.
The other advantage is something that came out of the reasoniung behing the original coal and steel treaties and that is that other than the occasional Football match or Eurovision Song Contest, Europe is probably the most peaceful than it has been for the last 1000 years. That is if we can ignore the rather mangy bear sulking in the corner (Under Yeltsin there was talk of eventual EU membership for Russia, but that has now gone).
However, you'll excuse me if I choose to exercise my freedom of movement and move to another EU member state if UKIP ever look like forming a government.
Already, the sillier policies coming out of the UK have already forced me out. I come back from time to time and wonder why the idiots in both of the main parties haven't been dumped.
The funny thing is that "European rule" is being used as an excuse. Germany (and others) has decided to limit the influx of labour from the new EU countries and is being allowed to. Why complain anyway about dominance by unelected official when you have Lord Mandy around and (lots of) minimally supervised quangos creating and implementing policy. The British government prefers to blame EUrope rather than looking to its own areas. They would gladly blame the pound on the ECB if tey could.
I do remember time before the UK was in the EU. Well it sure kept a lot of people employed managing all those imports and exports to the closest neighbours. Lots oif local standards that meant having to get multiple approvals for exports.
Lord Mandleson was never elected. He was called to the Lords as the only way to give him a rank of Minister of the Government without him being elected. Essentially he has always been considered as knowledgeable but unelectable but his ability to manage the media that made him an excelleent manager of spin for Blair.
The Eurosceptics believe that the UK could withdraw from the EU and join the EEA to retain access to EU markets. A nice theory for them but in practice it forces the countries to comply with many EU policies without any representation in the decision making.
It was the only way that they could get Mandy a role as minister when he hadn't been elected. The conservatives have used the same technique before to bring in some industrialist to help them out in the Department of Trade and Industry, but at least he had some real experience. Mandy's is limited to being something to do with the media. This is why he takes the side of media management so quickly.
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You have got it wrong.
The MOD produced this document that apparently nobody was reading. It doesn't really contain much that is contentious, so why not leak it and have everyone reading it.
I absolutely agree. It is possible to find laptops that can be taken outside, say Panasonic's Toughbooks - not at all cheap. The market is a niche because it is aimed at people like the military or the largest construction companies. Unfortunately, they are a tad expensive to be used for many other outdoor persuits like field research.
A commercial OLPC for adults that was aimed at the low-end of the Toughbook territory, in other words, a hardened netbook would have been extremely successful for all kinds of low-end commercial stuff like data logging etc or even more general outdoor use.
As for kids, why not just a partnership eith Fischer Price or something?
But they and Intel did, didn't they? I would actually say that their 'marketing efforts' in several countries was questionnable under the FCPA.The other thing that shafted it was the initial failure to sell it in the west. Heck they could even have given the marketing to Fischer-Price (the colours were about right).
The OLPC was not about shipping a PC, rather than a multi-purpose enabling device for access to education. Sure Sugar is eminently hackable but simply the ability to mesh network and to work as an electronic book was something special and to be able to do so in countries that are very unfriendly to conventional laptops.
Private insurers are not dead in the UK. It is just the theft that private insureres get away with in other countries is not viable in the UK so they must concentrate on things like hotel services (upmarket rooms).
I can only concurr at a lower (user) level. Sharepoint is a tool that isn't totally unsuitable for the various tasks it uis used for, but far from perfect.
I have used Sharepoint on several recent jobs as it has replaces several open-source type systems from Wikis or whatever. I have been working at sites where they can spend serious money on online document management but have 'bought' Sharepoint. Getting the security working correctly was a problem (multiple domains). It performs like a dead dog, especially on large documents and whilst user friendly, that isn't very relevant due to the lack of performance.
Yes but it needs to be +1 Redundant.
and see a postage stamp... Some GPS screens are a decent size, but many are tiny. You try getting an overview of a route from say Paris to Berlin using that.
RSX-11M and RSX-11M+ would normally be built from assembler source that was supplied. The code was full of macros and conditionals to ensure that the exec was built optimally for the hardware environment and the features that you needed. Many utilities were provided as object modules but the exec was always there as source.
OpenVMS currently runs small things like the US Army's pay system and several major financial markets. Development has slowed considerably now, it doesn't have so many friends at HP but I beleieve that support must contnue until 2020.
There is something called FreeVMS. Very incomplete but it apparently boots.
Microsoft has tried to kill off Linux in the Netbook world, so most Netbooks ship with an OEM copy of XP, being far too small for Vista.
I've been to places like the City of London, Paris, etc.. Pretty much no chance to get an accurate location in the narrow streets.
A GPS also typically presents a very small view onto a route with no abaility to get an overview of the surrounding area. Sometimes it may really be better to go from A to C via B for other reasons. This in particular can be mitigated by the use of other services such as Google Earth/Maps on a laptop as a backup.
So-called netbooks are very popular now as portable machines. They weigh next to nothing and they are dirt cheap, in case the DHS take it away (i.e., you can have a spare) or it gets stolen. Students love them for note taking.
For non-resident aliens, yes. You are supposed to identify yourselves to an INS rep and give him the funger. He will do something with your visa, photograph and fingerprint and give you a receipt to say you legally left the country. Without that, non-res aliens won't be allowed back in.
This is known phenomenon with pigs in particular but is potentially with any animal for slaughter. Remember that meat is muscle which in life is hooked up to nerves and a blood supply. If the animal is stressed, hormones circulate and glycogen is broken down into glucode and water. If the animal is under high stress, then the glucode is not fully metabolised ending up as lactic acid. Too much lactic acid means that the meat becomes pale, soft and seeping fluid after slaughter. If the animals were using their muscles a lot (i.e. transportation stress) then the glycogen may be exhausetd casing the meat to be to dark, dry and hard.
The prisoner is old enough that they wrote many of the cliches. The series was an inspiration to many writers and directors.
I like a larger sensor, but don 't need the extra pixels. It's partly down to the high pixel density why we have so many problems with low-light noise.
I think you'll find that this was probabaly down to the costs of having the parts made and the maybe one person who was officially on the project. A lot of skilled people gave some serious time to the project. If you included their time, it would be much more.
Bletchley Park is still hanging there. It has bits of various machines such as Atlas onwards (sorry to say that I used the Atlas many, many years ago in its last year of operation). It even has a PDP-11/34 and a MicroVAX. The latter machines, I believe are complete and working.
Noooo!!!!
Colossus was developed for breaking cryptographic material (Fish) from Lorenz telex style stream ciphering machines (Tunny). Enigma was broken by the Bombes which were more mechanical in nature.
All quite clear if you visit Bletchley Park in the UK, the rather lower budget British museum of cryptography and computing. Both the Colossus and Bombe reconstruction projects were run out of BP and if are lucky you can get a talk on their operation from Tony Sale or one of the other builders.
Apparently this has been called "rule by fax", however resented, the benefits of EEA membership outweigh this major disadvantage. Eventually EU membership has the real advantage, but the Lisbon process is needed to make it more practical.
The other advantage is something that came out of the reasoniung behing the original coal and steel treaties and that is that other than the occasional Football match or Eurovision Song Contest, Europe is probably the most peaceful than it has been for the last 1000 years. That is if we can ignore the rather mangy bear sulking in the corner (Under Yeltsin there was talk of eventual EU membership for Russia, but that has now gone).
Already, the sillier policies coming out of the UK have already forced me out. I come back from time to time and wonder why the idiots in both of the main parties haven't been dumped.
The funny thing is that "European rule" is being used as an excuse. Germany (and others) has decided to limit the influx of labour from the new EU countries and is being allowed to. Why complain anyway about dominance by unelected official when you have Lord Mandy around and (lots of) minimally supervised quangos creating and implementing policy. The British government prefers to blame EUrope rather than looking to its own areas. They would gladly blame the pound on the ECB if tey could.
I do remember time before the UK was in the EU. Well it sure kept a lot of people employed managing all those imports and exports to the closest neighbours. Lots oif local standards that meant having to get multiple approvals for exports.
Lord Mandleson was never elected. He was called to the Lords as the only way to give him a rank of Minister of the Government without him being elected. Essentially he has always been considered as knowledgeable but unelectable but his ability to manage the media that made him an excelleent manager of spin for Blair.
The Eurosceptics believe that the UK could withdraw from the EU and join the EEA to retain access to EU markets. A nice theory for them but in practice it forces the countries to comply with many EU policies without any representation in the decision making.
It was the only way that they could get Mandy a role as minister when he hadn't been elected. The conservatives have used the same technique before to bring in some industrialist to help them out in the Department of Trade and Industry, but at least he had some real experience. Mandy's is limited to being something to do with the media. This is why he takes the side of media management so quickly.