A driving licence is a licence to drive a car. A passport is a document to allow you to go to another country. An ID card is a document to allow you to live. I already have that right thank you very much and I don't need the government to give me permission.
There are extremely good passport and driving license forgeries BTW.
Thousands of pages vs a few hundred and that's assuming the inkjets don't clog. Better quality output too. Then get a cheap inkjet for the occasional colour page.
Socks. Buy only one colour of sock. Black, white, whatever as long as they are all the same, I mean who really cares about socks anyway as long as they're comfortable.
Car keys is also solved. Get a beeper keyring (£3) for your car keys. They beep and flash when you whistle.
No, really. That's how it started, usually the title of a section, paragraph or similar.
Obviously the bit of red text contained something someone thought was important so eventually the word came to mean an important rule or important passage. These days it means an important set of rules.
Unfortunately there are too few people out there with scientific training, that especially includes many journalists and management, attempting to get them to apply some rigour is a futile task, especially when they have to present to an audience with no scientific training.
Standard deviations, measurement errors are for engineers. The papers you get from companies are sales tools nothing more. Simply treat them with the scepticism (caveat emptor) they deserve and try $WHATEVER yourself with the your systems and the money you were planning to spend.
I notice that FC3 now performs cache warming via readahead, using the/etc/readahead.files as a list to load into the buffer cache.
How about periodically listing the open files on the operating system and adding them to the/etc/readahead.files list. That way stuff like OpenOffice, Mozilla should be quicker.
It's just that OO does quite happily perform a save every few minutes and at the same time it can also perform a backup of the document just in case the working document gets destroyed.
"The number one reason being that I am tired of waiting 30 seconds for Word to load just to spellcheck a blog entry. My computer is slow (a 2.2 GHz Celeron with 512 MB RAM), so I wanted to make sure that OO.o is faster if I am going to use it."
It isn't the CPU or RAM which is making it slow. Apart from the software/OS/filesystem, it's your disk drive. Buy and install a 15K drive, or indeed a couple of them and separate OS/Swap and Apps.
And is throwing his toys out of the pram because he's just not getting everything his way. Don't worry nothing is ever perfect for these guys, OS X won't be able to satisfy his demand that the world be made perfect for him either.
Guess what all you Prima Donnas, (and yes there are a *lot* of Prima Donnas out there). You will never ever get everything you want, something will always be wrong because the problem is not with the world at large, it's with your personality.
I wonder how the residents feel about the council microwaving them. Ok, I know it's bollocks but I'd bet they don't know what those little pods are for.
Most voters haven't noticed, but on the back of every ballot paper is a number and the number is recorded against your name on the register when they give you the paper. You vote, vote gets counted, by hand in full view of journalists, political party representatives.
It is however a crime to even attempt to associate the number on the back of the ballot paper with an individual. In the event of suspected fraud it is possible to find out how an individual voted and then ask them if they really did vote that way.
In a 2 candidate race you discard the votes of 49.9% of the populace.
In a 3 candidate race you discard up to 66.9% of the populace.
In a 4 candidate race you discard the votes of up to 74.9. etc etc.
The people of course know that voting for anyone but one of the two leading candidates is futile, their votes will be discarded, which causes it to fall to Republican or Democrat.
There's no way that the spread of people's political beliefs can be represented by just two political parties, and if they don't represent what you believe, how can you vote for them?
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*I* want to be able to go to the moon and that is not going to happen, *ever*, through NASA.
Certainly in the mass market. Why upgrade if you're not getting any significant benefit and possibly causing yourself huge amounts of grief?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4590817.s tm
And none of the reasons the government has given for introducing them have stood up to any sort of scrutiny.
http://mrprecision.blogspot.com/2005/05/lets-sta rt-with-id-cards.html
A driving licence is a licence to drive a car. A passport is a document to allow you to go to another country. An ID card is a document to allow you to live. I already have that right thank you very much and I don't need the government to give me permission.
There are extremely good passport and driving license forgeries BTW.
Thousands of pages vs a few hundred and that's assuming the inkjets don't clog. Better quality output too. Then get a cheap inkjet for the occasional colour page.
Socks. Buy only one colour of sock. Black, white, whatever as long as they are all the same, I mean who really cares about socks anyway as long as they're comfortable.
Car keys is also solved. Get a beeper keyring (£3) for your car keys. They beep and flash when you whistle.
Ho yes, there's a good idea. Give Google the ability to understand.
It's like having car mechanics design cars. What's better a 3000 mile service interval or a 30000 mile service interval?
They can see the madness, they made it, but they're also getting lots and lots and lots of money from the madness.
"posting blog crap that is biased and generally full of inaccuracies and problems in testing isn't news"
Sorry, you've lost me. I don't see how that differs from what journalists produce in magazines, newspapers and (online) journals.
No, really. That's how it started, usually the title of a section, paragraph or similar.
Obviously the bit of red text contained something someone thought was important so eventually the word came to mean an important rule or important passage. These days it means an important set of rules.
http://www.dictionary.com/
htttp://www.m-w.com/
http://www.askoxford.com/?view=uk
"use the same number of decimal places in each label! I grit my teeth whenever I see 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, ...)"
Agreed. The number of decimal places *should* tell you the precision to which the data was measured.
Unfortunately there are too few people out there with scientific training, that especially includes many journalists and management, attempting to get them to apply some rigour is a futile task, especially when they have to present to an audience with no scientific training.
Standard deviations, measurement errors are for engineers. The papers you get from companies are sales tools nothing more. Simply treat them with the scepticism (caveat emptor) they deserve and try $WHATEVER yourself with the your systems and the money you were planning to spend.
I notice that FC3 now performs cache warming via readahead, using the /etc/readahead.files as a list to load into the buffer cache.
/etc/readahead.files list. That way stuff like OpenOffice, Mozilla should be quicker.
How about periodically listing the open files on the operating system and adding them to the
e.g.
lsof | cut -c70- | sort | uniq | grep ^\/
Some prat has a template and they insert $WHATEVER into it where WHATEVER is whichever bit of software is being talked about and post it on slashdot.
You're an MS astroturfer aren't you, tut tut.
It's just that OO does quite happily perform a save every few minutes and at the same time it can also perform a backup of the document just in case the working document gets destroyed.
The option is under Tools->Options->Load/Save
Got an old rev of MS Office? OpenOffice is better than MS Office 95 and cheaper than upgrading.
"The number one reason being that I am tired of waiting 30 seconds for Word to load just to spellcheck a blog entry. My computer is slow (a 2.2 GHz Celeron with 512 MB RAM), so I wanted to make sure that OO.o is faster if I am going to use it."
It isn't the CPU or RAM which is making it slow. Apart from the software/OS/filesystem, it's your disk drive. Buy and install a 15K drive, or indeed a couple of them and separate OS/Swap and Apps.
When did you get here? Slashdot has always reported news from other news sites.
And is throwing his toys out of the pram because he's just not getting everything his way. Don't worry nothing is ever perfect for these guys, OS X won't be able to satisfy his demand that the world be made perfect for him either.
Guess what all you Prima Donnas, (and yes there are a *lot* of Prima Donnas out there). You will never ever get everything you want, something will always be wrong because the problem is not with the world at large, it's with your personality.
HTH
Hey look! The free market, Russian style.
I wonder how the residents feel about the council microwaving them. Ok, I know it's bollocks but I'd bet they don't know what those little pods are for.
Well, there was "Consume". http://www.consume.net/ but their DNS is FUBAR'd so I'm not sure they still exist.
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http://www.wlan.org.uk/operational_wlan_sites.htm
IIRC It's all still hampered quite badly by the 100mW EIRP limitations for 2.4GHz within the EU.
No? You don't even need them physically connected these days, SCSI over IP can do it.
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LVS isn't really an ideal system, the load balancer is bound to be the box that dies.
For a clustering project
http://www.linux-ha.org/
Most voters haven't noticed, but on the back of every ballot paper is a number and the number is recorded against your name on the register when they give you the paper. You vote, vote gets counted, by hand in full view of journalists, political party representatives.
It is however a crime to even attempt to associate the number on the back of the ballot paper with an individual. In the event of suspected fraud it is possible to find out how an individual voted and then ask them if they really did vote that way.
In a 2 candidate race you discard the votes of 49.9% of the populace.
In a 3 candidate race you discard up to 66.9% of the populace.
In a 4 candidate race you discard the votes of up to 74.9. etc etc.
The people of course know that voting for anyone but one of the two leading candidates is futile, their votes will be discarded, which causes it to fall to Republican or Democrat.
There's no way that the spread of people's political beliefs can be represented by just two political parties, and if they don't represent what you believe, how can you vote for them?
The result is apathy.
Come on. It really doesn't get any simpler than...
Put a cross in one of the boxes.
Pat Buchanan [ ]
Al Gore [ ]
If they can't manage that then they really have no idea who or what they're doing.