I complain to my ISP if I see probes coming in from diseased systems and they are disconnected forthwith. It's then their problem.
If someone is technically too inept to patch their systems by going to windowsupdate they should be paying someone to do it for them. If their system is pirated, they should be paying Microsoft for the privilege of using Windows or should be using something else instead.
RTFA, they're changing their patch distribution mechanism. Windows patches are often out before the vulnerability is made public so it does pay to keep your systems patched. You don't have to wait for full service packs.
You have a pirate copy? You don't get support, patches, fixes of any kind. The people who actually paid for their version get patches and fixes, thereby gaining a benefit from having paid.
The pirates get hacked and infested with worms, viruses and the people who paid, don't. It's about time too.
I have to disagree. In fact I take the opposite view entirely. I find the Gnome user interface to be clean fairly consistent and elegant. But it is slow. KDE is busy, inconsistent and distracting but is significantly faster than Gnome.
I agree about the speed. KDE is noticably faster, running it over the network emphasises the difference and if you try a lower bandiwdth link like wireless for instance KDE is perfectly usable, just like running stuff locally, Gnome is almost unusable.
I don't think it's the window manager, it seems to be all of the apps so I guess it's something in the base libraries.
I searched for the word "performance"
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It wasn't mentioned in the article at all. Neither was the word "speed" or the word "faster".
I guess Gnome is destined to remain the slowpoke of the GUI world. Who would have thought KDE would be the quick one.
"The problem is that the USPTO cannot thoroughly review all applications."
Umm. Then it should simply stop accepting applications until it *can* review them all. The *whole point* of a patent office is to thoroughly review all applications, otherwise it might as well not exist at all. Replace it with a monkey with a rubber stamp and a filing cabinet.
"Then sleaze-co starts using my invention, I try to sue."
You have to patent something *before it's disclosed to other people*. That's the point. It gives you protection. The way the patent system is *supposed* to work you're also supposed to provide evidence that you've developed said invention, notebooks, diagrams with dates, times etc.
In this case, you patent invention, Sleaze-Co steals it, you sue and win because you have the patent and Sleaze Co pays your legal bill as well as the damages.
Car no claim bonuses don't translate to bikes unfortunately. Most bikes can do better than 35mpg, sportsbikes though are designed for mindbending performance (and yes it really is mind altering). This means that you'll get 35-40mpg if being careful and 25-30 when riding "enthusiastically". A GSXR 600 is insanely fast even for an experienced motorcyclist.
Buy a second hand bike for a start. And get one without all of the plastic. You *will* drop it and replacing the panels is expensive. As a general rule, a 600cc bike will cost about the same to run as a car, if you're not spending the money on fuel, you're spending it on servicing and tyres. 500cc bikes are significantly cheaper to run because they don't pretend to be designed for high performance, they're what the dispatchers ride.
Read UKRM: news:uk.rec.motorcycles. There's a web site http://www.ukrm.net/ there's a FAQ http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ and suggested first bikes http://www.ukrm.net/faq/Motorcycles.html . If you want serious fuel efficiency and low running costs then add the BMW F650's to the list, though they're more expensive to purchase new. I started years ago on a Suzuki Bandit 600, it's a good bike to start on, dirt cheap to buy, cheap parts and simple to service but only 42mpg-45mpg on the motorway, has a chain and 4k service interval but it's quick enough to scare yourself every day for a couple of years. Today if I was buying an all rounder today for day to day use, not taking account of milage or commuting I'd go for an SV650. When you've passed your test take test rides on a few before you decide.
As a motorcyclist your biggest enemy is yourself. The second biggest enemy are unobservant car drivers. It's worth doing though, filtering past a 5 mile line of traffic is decidedly satisfying and coming out of a corner with the rear wheel sliding and the front lifting just *rocks* as a way to get to work in the morning but be careful, you die when you have an accident on a bike.
I do 24,000 miles per year on a motorbike in the UK and I can tell you right now that a GSXR-600 will not reduce your fuel bill significantly, unless you drive a RangeRover at the moment. How do you think they get to 60mph in less than 3 seconds? By burning a fuck load of fuel.
You'll get 35-40mpg if you're _really_ careful with the throttle.
Add on the insurance, new rider, on a gixer of all things will cost you 1,200-2,500 per year in insurance, *if they'll insure you at all*. Then add the *4,000* mile service intervals which cost 150 for a minor and 250 for a major service and the fact that you'll be going through a rear tyre in 4,000 miles and a front tyre in 8,000 miles. Tyres which cost 180 for a rear and 130 for a front. A new chain and sprockets every 12,000 miles.
A sportsbike, especially a Gixer is not the way to try to save money.
Take some advice. If you want to save money by riding a motorcycle there are a few things you should look out for.
1: Fewer cylinders. Fewer sparkplugs are replaced at service, fewer sets of valves to check.
2: No chain. That means belt or shaft drive. A chain has to be oiled every few hundred miles.
3: Low revving. The engine will last longer, I've worn one bike engine out already.
4: High torque, relatively low power. The more powerful it is, the more fuel it burns.
5: Light weight and low centre of gravity. Makes traffic easier.
6: Long service intervals, 6000 miles.
7: Narrow. You're using it for commuting right? To filter through traffic that means narrow and upright.
BTW, when I was looking for a new bike for commuting using these criteria a year ago, the only one which ticked *all* of the boxes was the BMW F650CS. It gets 72mpg on the motorway, 650cc single cylinder, belt drive which lasts 24,000 miles, 6000 mile service interval. SV650, GS500, CB500, Pegaso, F650GS all came close.
It's a damned sight cheaper than the $6.12 per gallon we're paying for Diesel here in the UK at the moment. You can also mix Diesel with turps substitute (but not real turpentine), white spirits, kerosene, paraffin. Kerosene is the easiest to get hold of in bulk.
On a related note, you can mix petrol with meythylated spirits or other alcohols to quite a large degree.
Though, for all of these, if Customs and Excise find out you're not paying the duty you're fucked.
Because when you factor in the waste storage and decomissioning costs, the nuclear option looks damned near stupid. BNFL for instance is desperate to offload it's decomissioning costs to the government and hence the taxpayer, it's the only way it could be remotely profitable.
e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2091561.stm
Solar and wind power in comparison are being rolled out by already privatised power companies, they can make a profit running onshore and offshore wind farms.
Squeak is basically Smalltalk. The programming environment is designed to be fun and highly productive. You can go from simple visual concepts to coding.
Sounds to me like the buyers should be up on negligence or corruption charges. Getting a couple of quotes from competitors isn't particularly hard. Basic due diligence.
I wouldn't blame the manufacturer for wanting to sell the biggest fastest systems they can. Purchasers have some responsibility for knowing what they need.
You almost certainly don't need to know.
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You may think you need to know, but you'd be wrong. Simply make use of open standards and you'll be fine.
e.g. http://www.tigertrackgps.com/
Doesn't bloody work because half the site is written in javascript which attempts to detect my web browser, because the version number is below 4, I'm apparently not allowed to see their site and I've chosen one of their competitors instead.
You can predict when it's going to happen.
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Typically innovative companies are lead by their founders. Technical people who understand the value of investment. When they become large, the bean counters move in and the technical leaders are replaced with accountants or sales people who try to justify their position by generating short term profits at the expense of long term viability.
It takes a few years after the change in leadership has happened but if you're a techie at a company who's technical leadership has bailed or been pushed and you have a shiny new CEO from outside the company, it's time to smarten up your CV and have a look at how your current competition work.
"The UK has enacted a total gun ban, and consequently, violent crime rates have gone up."
All that can be said about the ban of handguns is that it had no effect on the level of violent crime. Not particularly surprising when most criminals don't register their guns with the police.
The increase in violent crime is not a consequence of the ban. The rate of legal gun ownership in the UK before the ban was negligible, far lower than 1%. To claim that the increase is therefore a consequence is specious and simply shows your ignorance of the UK.
Most of the violent and gun related crime is gang and drug related and could be solved overnight by legalising the selling and recreational use of drugs in licensed premises.
You too can have the same effect for less.
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You can do the same with a couple of PC projectors.
I set up a network management center this way with scotty. Course it goes through loads of lamps.
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These are illegal copies which *should* be paid for. How is that not losing revenue?
Standard practice in medical circles. We're not talking fatal diseases here. Kick them off the net.
Nah, fuck them.
I complain to my ISP if I see probes coming in from diseased systems and they are disconnected forthwith. It's then their problem.
If someone is technically too inept to patch their systems by going to windowsupdate they should be paying someone to do it for them. If their system is pirated, they should be paying Microsoft for the privilege of using Windows or should be using something else instead.
RTFA, they're changing their patch distribution mechanism. Windows patches are often out before the vulnerability is made public so it does pay to keep your systems patched. You don't have to wait for full service packs.
Bitch to your ISP and have them disconnected.
You have a pirate copy? You don't get support, patches, fixes of any kind. The people who actually paid for their version get patches and fixes, thereby gaining a benefit from having paid.
The pirates get hacked and infested with worms, viruses and the people who paid, don't. It's about time too.
I have to disagree. In fact I take the opposite view entirely. I find the Gnome user interface to be clean fairly consistent and elegant. But it is slow. KDE is busy, inconsistent and distracting but is significantly faster than Gnome.
I agree about the speed. KDE is noticably faster, running it over the network emphasises the difference and if you try a lower bandiwdth link like wireless for instance KDE is perfectly usable, just like running stuff locally, Gnome is almost unusable.
I don't think it's the window manager, it seems to be all of the apps so I guess it's something in the base libraries.
It wasn't mentioned in the article at all. Neither was the word "speed" or the word "faster".
I guess Gnome is destined to remain the slowpoke of the GUI world. Who would have thought KDE would be the quick one.
So that the head of state can surf for porn in complete security.
"The problem is that the USPTO cannot thoroughly review all applications."
Umm. Then it should simply stop accepting applications until it *can* review them all. The *whole point* of a patent office is to thoroughly review all applications, otherwise it might as well not exist at all. Replace it with a monkey with a rubber stamp and a filing cabinet.
"Then sleaze-co starts using my invention, I try to sue."
You have to patent something *before it's disclosed to other people*. That's the point. It gives you protection. The way the patent system is *supposed* to work you're also supposed to provide evidence that you've developed said invention, notebooks, diagrams with dates, times etc.
In this case, you patent invention, Sleaze-Co steals it, you sue and win because you have the patent and Sleaze Co pays your legal bill as well as the damages.
Car no claim bonuses don't translate to bikes unfortunately. Most bikes can do better than 35mpg, sportsbikes though are designed for mindbending performance (and yes it really is mind altering). This means that you'll get 35-40mpg if being careful and 25-30 when riding "enthusiastically". A GSXR 600 is insanely fast even for an experienced motorcyclist.
Buy a second hand bike for a start. And get one without all of the plastic. You *will* drop it and replacing the panels is expensive. As a general rule, a 600cc bike will cost about the same to run as a car, if you're not spending the money on fuel, you're spending it on servicing and tyres. 500cc bikes are significantly cheaper to run because they don't pretend to be designed for high performance, they're what the dispatchers ride.
Read UKRM: news:uk.rec.motorcycles. There's a web site http://www.ukrm.net/ there's a FAQ http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ and suggested first bikes http://www.ukrm.net/faq/Motorcycles.html . If you want serious fuel efficiency and low running costs then add the BMW F650's to the list, though they're more expensive to purchase new. I started years ago on a Suzuki Bandit 600, it's a good bike to start on, dirt cheap to buy, cheap parts and simple to service but only 42mpg-45mpg on the motorway, has a chain and 4k service interval but it's quick enough to scare yourself every day for a couple of years. Today if I was buying an all rounder today for day to day use, not taking account of milage or commuting I'd go for an SV650. When you've passed your test take test rides on a few before you decide.
As a motorcyclist your biggest enemy is yourself. The second biggest enemy are unobservant car drivers. It's worth doing though, filtering past a 5 mile line of traffic is decidedly satisfying and coming out of a corner with the rear wheel sliding and the front lifting just *rocks* as a way to get to work in the morning but be careful, you die when you have an accident on a bike.
Too much chrome for the UK, they rust before coming out of the crate.
I do 24,000 miles per year on a motorbike in the UK and I can tell you right now that a GSXR-600 will not reduce your fuel bill significantly, unless you drive a RangeRover at the moment. How do you think they get to 60mph in less than 3 seconds? By burning a fuck load of fuel.
You'll get 35-40mpg if you're _really_ careful with the throttle.
Add on the insurance, new rider, on a gixer of all things will cost you 1,200-2,500 per year in insurance, *if they'll insure you at all*. Then add the *4,000* mile service intervals which cost 150 for a minor and 250 for a major service and the fact that you'll be going through a rear tyre in 4,000 miles and a front tyre in 8,000 miles. Tyres which cost 180 for a rear and 130 for a front. A new chain and sprockets every 12,000 miles.
A sportsbike, especially a Gixer is not the way to try to save money.
Take some advice. If you want to save money by riding a motorcycle there are a few things you should look out for.
1: Fewer cylinders. Fewer sparkplugs are replaced at service, fewer sets of valves to check.
2: No chain. That means belt or shaft drive. A chain has to be oiled every few hundred miles.
3: Low revving. The engine will last longer, I've worn one bike engine out already.
4: High torque, relatively low power. The more powerful it is, the more fuel it burns.
5: Light weight and low centre of gravity. Makes traffic easier.
6: Long service intervals, 6000 miles.
7: Narrow. You're using it for commuting right? To filter through traffic that means narrow and upright.
BTW, when I was looking for a new bike for commuting using these criteria a year ago, the only one which ticked *all* of the boxes was the BMW F650CS. It gets 72mpg on the motorway, 650cc single cylinder, belt drive which lasts 24,000 miles, 6000 mile service interval. SV650, GS500, CB500, Pegaso, F650GS all came close.
It's a damned sight cheaper than the $6.12 per gallon we're paying for Diesel here in the UK at the moment. You can also mix Diesel with turps substitute (but not real turpentine), white spirits, kerosene, paraffin. Kerosene is the easiest to get hold of in bulk.
On a related note, you can mix petrol with meythylated spirits or other alcohols to quite a large degree.
Though, for all of these, if Customs and Excise find out you're not paying the duty you're fucked.
Because when you factor in the waste storage and decomissioning costs, the nuclear option looks damned near stupid. BNFL for instance is desperate to offload it's decomissioning costs to the government and hence the taxpayer, it's the only way it could be remotely profitable.
e.g.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2091561.stm
Solar and wind power in comparison are being rolled out by already privatised power companies, they can make a profit running onshore and offshore wind farms.
http://www.squeakland.org/author/etoys.html
Squeak is basically Smalltalk. The programming environment is designed to be fun and highly productive. You can go from simple visual concepts to coding.
It's also free and opensource.
http://modena.intergate.ca/personal/gslj/hypera
Sounds to me like the buyers should be up on negligence or corruption charges. Getting a couple of quotes from competitors isn't particularly hard. Basic due diligence.
I wouldn't blame the manufacturer for wanting to sell the biggest fastest systems they can. Purchasers have some responsibility for knowing what they need.
You may think you need to know, but you'd be wrong. Simply make use of open standards and you'll be fine.
e.g.
http://www.tigertrackgps.com/
Doesn't bloody work because half the site is written in javascript which attempts to detect my web browser, because the version number is below 4, I'm apparently not allowed to see their site and I've chosen one of their competitors instead.
Typically innovative companies are lead by their founders. Technical people who understand the value of investment. When they become large, the bean counters move in and the technical leaders are replaced with accountants or sales people who try to justify their position by generating short term profits at the expense of long term viability.
It takes a few years after the change in leadership has happened but if you're a techie at a company who's technical leadership has bailed or been pushed and you have a shiny new CEO from outside the company, it's time to smarten up your CV and have a look at how your current competition work.
"The UK has enacted a total gun ban, and consequently, violent crime rates have gone up."
All that can be said about the ban of handguns is that it had no effect on the level of violent crime. Not particularly surprising when most criminals don't register their guns with the police.
The increase in violent crime is not a consequence of the ban. The rate of legal gun ownership in the UK before the ban was negligible, far lower than 1%. To claim that the increase is therefore a consequence is specious and simply shows your ignorance of the UK.
Most of the violent and gun related crime is gang and drug related and could be solved overnight by legalising the selling and recreational use of drugs in licensed premises.
You can do the same with a couple of PC projectors.
I set up a network management center this way with scotty. Course it goes through loads of lamps.
It's a different market. How much does it cost to employ cleaners to vacuum the floors of an office?
Though for 1000 I'd want wireless with it reporting it's progress and building a map of the areas it's vacuumed back to a server as well.