While America was recovering from defeating Germany and Japan in WWII and taking a well earned rest, the Russian were forcing their captured German rocket scientists to...make a rocket large enough to put a satellite into orbit, this satellite was Sputnik.
Err...that may well be how it was presented, but I think you'll find that the Russians had quite a lot to do with the defeat of Germany. Possibly more than any other nation (a hard thing for me to say, as I'm British), and they certainly earned their rest. And the scientists that helped with the American space programme were also captured German rocket scientists.
The ratio of house prices to salaries in the UK is now at it's highest since records began in 1900.
Aah, but the mortgage rates are also some of the lowest since records began. This makes mortgages more affordable than they have been for a long time.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a UK house owner, yet would love to see a house price crash. Why? Because at the moment all the high prices mean is that various people get to swap pieces of paper about with big numbers printed on them. What does it matter if both my house and the house I'm buying went up £100k in the last two years? Actual value hasn't gone up - the relative cost is the same. However without first time buyers to drive the market, no-one can sell at the bottom level. Which means there's no-one to buy at the middle level. Which in turn means there's no-one to buy at the top level...you get the idea.
You've got to ask yourself, what would you DO with that extra 2 or 3 hours? I'm pretty sure I'd just waste it myself.
No kids, right...?
Seriously, a couple of years ago I would have agreed with you entirely. Now, I need to get back to see my baby daughter. Having said that, I use my commuting time as a bit of break where I can do what I need, not what what my daughter needs, not what my wife needs, not what work needs...just some time for me to chill out, listen to music and relax.
Cheers,
Ian
Re:3 hours per day... Sitting in traffic...
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Assuming 16 waking hours per day, you spend 44 days per year of your awake life just sitting in traffic. A month and a half? That's gotta be fun.
It can be. Honestly.
How? Well, I work during the day. I have a 16-month old daughter to look after when I get home, and I often have paperwork too. The travel time can be quite relaxing in comparison - time to sit on your own for a bit, listen to some music...no trouble. If you're capable of relaxing rather descending into road-rage, then it actually can be a good time. A break to get a moment's thinking time for yourself.
Well, I live in Marlow, which to reach the centre of London is about a 90 minute trip. I'm a contractor and have worked in a few City and Docklands-based banks. Most banks now allow VPNs from home. It's not the norm to work from home, but many are pretty flexible these days.
Of course, I'm a developer. Not sure what it's like for non-pure IT staff.
Cheers,
Ian
Re:perfect background music for
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I hate to disappoint, there was no fight between Saruman and Gandalf
You think Gandalf allowed himself to imprisoned on the roof of Orthanc voluntarily?
There was no pseudo-kung fu staff fight as per the film, true, but there was a struggle. It just isn't described in detail in the book.
...it takes ~30 minutes at 100% cpu to generate a report
If you'd rather conserve CPU time than get your report earler, try looking into the nice command.
Cobalt Raqs are a similar spec to your machine, and I don't want my co-lo box dying due to non-serving tasks. Solution is to nice just about everything - box stays responsive, and the reports still arrive. Just a little later, that's all.
I have a Tivo and a couple of consoles. One of many things I like about the Tivo is that I can play my games and not care about what I may be missing on TV.
Anyone heard anything about whether this can record and play games at the same time?
Perhaps I should make things clear. I'm not using the shell, I'm using the System Tools->Red Hat Network option GUI. They've provided it for a reason, so I thought I'd use it. It's not very friendly at all.
I'm quite happy to apt-get whatever, and spend most of my professional life on a Solaris command line. Red Hat 9 is a desktop distro though, and so its desktop tools should be of high quality. I'm afraid I haven't find the actual Red Hed Network GUI tool to be very good.
>>I find it [RHN] extremely irritating, because it requires seperate download and install steps. >I'm sorry, but the separation of download and install steps is a good idea.
Two users who disagree. Solution would be to make the behaviour configurable then, yes?
I have. I find it extremely irritating, because it requires seperate download and install steps. I want to get my list of updates, select all, click one thing to get them installed, then walk away for a few minutes. Red Had Network doesn't let me do that.
From the interview: Wouldn't you agree that your legal action is causing uncertainty in the Linux community and that this uncertainty is undermining the marketing efforts of UnitedLinux? There is definitely uncertainty and doubt...
Nobody believes me, but I SWEAR I read an article...that said there would indeed be NINE EPISODES.
I believe you. I'm in the wrong country to be reading the Detroit Free Press, but I remember the nine films-spiel at roughly the time Empire was ready. Couldn't give you a source though - at that time it would probably have been my then-local paper, The Star (in Sheffield, UK).
Mr Lucas and I used to have an admirable arrangement. I gave him money, and he gave me good films.
In recent years however, he's rather been letting down his side of the bargain. I still gave him money, but he gave dross in return. It seems that most of the reason he's given me dross is because of an obsession with digital filmaking - looks like he's much more interested in the technology behind the film than in the film itself these days.
Bah. Bring back model-making and puppetry, and hire a decent set of writers...
I'd love to save a.rm audio stream (say the BBC "Listen again" streams) as an mp3 for listening on the move
It's awkward, but possible now. I do this using RealPlayer for Linux, and vsound. vsound is a wrapper which captures any sounds made by the programs it executes, and then writes them to a.wav file. After that, encode the wav to mp3 and you're away.
There are two useful services for stopping unwanted mail and calls in the UK. I'm registered with both, and they do work.
The Mailing Preferences Service for direct mail. Remember to sign up and block the names of you, your family, your dog, the previous owner's dog etc.
The Telephone Preferences Service is the phone equivalent. Never really got much direct calling anyway, but I've had none since signing up for this.
Both services take about three months to fully kick in following registration.
There's a loophole in the mailing one though, and a comment in another thread some time ago mentioned a way round it. Junk mail may still be delivered to 'The Occupier' by the Royal Mail. Someone a while ago mentioned there was a service to stop this too - haven't been able to find that one. Anybody know?
Examine this screenshot. What's the difference between the Applications, Office and OpenOffice.org Office menus?
Now, admittedly I'm not a KDE user so this might be something that KDE imposes rather than Libranet, but even so is it really necessary to have three submenus for this?
it's all about decision - and the ability to use the best tool for the job....I feel that each OS is best suited to that particular role, and I use them accordingly.
But you are a private individual (or company), and have little or no need for public accountability in those choices. The money you spent on the tools you choose is entirely your own.
This is entirely different to a public body's decision-making process. There, it is other people's money that is being spent. The choice should not be merely what's best for that body, but what's best for the people who are funding that body. It could be argued that the public should have a right to use software that they have funded.
I actually agree with your post, but I feel the debate is framed in a different manner to that which you suggest.
Reading the comments in this thread I'm guessing you're UK-based. I can understand the other posters being confused about your comments as Quicken is available in the US.
The lack of a UK Quicken version is the one thing stopping me getting a Mac. Seriously. I had other gripes before, but they've all been resolved one by one. I'm at the point where I'm considering getting one anyway and then running Quicken under VPC.
In the meantime, please email Intuit and tell them you want a version. I've done that, and got a polite response back saying that if there's enough interest it will be done. Of course, they won't know if there's any interest if nobody tells 'em...
From the review: Deleting a transaction is quick and painless by selecting the transaction you want to delete and pressing the Delete Button. And as an added delight it doesn't ask you the obnoxious question "Are you sure?"
But these are my accounts! I want to be protected against accidently deleting things. To take a random example, suppose I think I've clicked into a text field to start typing, whereas what I've really done is just highlighted the whole transation. I press delete and...
Oops. Hope I still have the bank statements for that one. I'll enjoy tracking the discrepency down, I'm sure...
Sometimes, it's good to have confirmation required before performing a destructive task. Imagine a similar review saying "And better still, no pesky usage screen or prompt - just typing the command name instantly low-level formats your SCSI RAID array...".
Cheers,
Ian
Re:Infinite is possible - proof!
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Why not: printf("Of course it's possible...\n");
No rational reason. It's a habit I fell into quite a while ago (where "quite a while ago" is defined as about fifteen years ago...).
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Err...that may well be how it was presented, but I think you'll find that the Russians had quite a lot to do with the defeat of Germany. Possibly more than any other nation (a hard thing for me to say, as I'm British), and they certainly earned their rest. And the scientists that helped with the American space programme were also captured German rocket scientists.
Cheers,
Ian
Aah, but the mortgage rates are also some of the lowest since records began. This makes mortgages more affordable than they have been for a long time.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a UK house owner, yet would love to see a house price crash. Why? Because at the moment all the high prices mean is that various people get to swap pieces of paper about with big numbers printed on them. What does it matter if both my house and the house I'm buying went up £100k in the last two years? Actual value hasn't gone up - the relative cost is the same. However without first time buyers to drive the market, no-one can sell at the bottom level. Which means there's no-one to buy at the middle level. Which in turn means there's no-one to buy at the top level...you get the idea.
Cheers,
Ian
No kids, right...?
Seriously, a couple of years ago I would have agreed with you entirely. Now, I need to get back to see my baby daughter. Having said that, I use my commuting time as a bit of break where I can do what I need, not what what my daughter needs, not what my wife needs, not what work needs...just some time for me to chill out, listen to music and relax.
Cheers,
Ian
It can be. Honestly.
How? Well, I work during the day. I have a 16-month old daughter to look after when I get home, and I often have paperwork too. The travel time can be quite relaxing in comparison - time to sit on your own for a bit, listen to some music...no trouble. If you're capable of relaxing rather descending into road-rage, then it actually can be a good time. A break to get a moment's thinking time for yourself.
Cheers,
Ian
Of course, I'm a developer. Not sure what it's like for non-pure IT staff.
Cheers,
Ian
You think Gandalf allowed himself to imprisoned on the roof of Orthanc voluntarily?
There was no pseudo-kung fu staff fight as per the film, true, but there was a struggle. It just isn't described in detail in the book.
Cheers,
Ian
If you'd rather conserve CPU time than get your report earler, try looking into the nice command.
Cobalt Raqs are a similar spec to your machine, and I don't want my co-lo box dying due to non-serving tasks. Solution is to nice just about everything - box stays responsive, and the reports still arrive. Just a little later, that's all.
Cheers,
Ian
Anyone heard anything about whether this can record and play games at the same time?
Cheers,
Ian
Any fighting game
Atari's 720
A personal favourite, but essentially a comic version of Scorched Earth (or even older)
Nothing original there.
Cheers,
Ian
I'm quite happy to apt-get whatever, and spend most of my professional life on a Solaris command line. Red Hat 9 is a desktop distro though, and so its desktop tools should be of high quality. I'm afraid I haven't find the actual Red Hed Network GUI tool to be very good.
Cheers,
Ian
>I'm sorry, but the separation of download and install steps is a good idea.
Two users who disagree. Solution would be to make the behaviour configurable then, yes?
Cheers,
Ian
I have. I find it extremely irritating, because it requires seperate download and install steps. I want to get my list of updates, select all, click one thing to get them installed, then walk away for a few minutes. Red Had Network doesn't let me do that.
Unless anyone knows differently, of course...
Cheers,
Ian
Wouldn't you agree that your legal action is causing uncertainty in the Linux community and that this uncertainty is undermining the marketing efforts of UnitedLinux?
There is definitely uncertainty and doubt...
But no fear, it would seem. :-)
Cheers,
Ian
I believe you. I'm in the wrong country to be reading the Detroit Free Press, but I remember the nine films-spiel at roughly the time Empire was ready. Couldn't give you a source though - at that time it would probably have been my then-local paper, The Star (in Sheffield, UK).
Cheers,
Ian
In recent years however, he's rather been letting down his side of the bargain. I still gave him money, but he gave dross in return. It seems that most of the reason he's given me dross is because of an obsession with digital filmaking - looks like he's much more interested in the technology behind the film than in the film itself these days.
Bah. Bring back model-making and puppetry, and hire a decent set of writers...
Cheers,
Ian
It's awkward, but possible now. I do this using RealPlayer for Linux, and vsound. vsound is a wrapper which captures any sounds made by the programs it executes, and then writes them to a .wav file. After that, encode the wav to mp3 and you're away.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Both services take about three months to fully kick in following registration.
There's a loophole in the mailing one though, and a comment in another thread some time ago mentioned a way round it. Junk mail may still be delivered to 'The Occupier' by the Royal Mail. Someone a while ago mentioned there was a service to stop this too - haven't been able to find that one. Anybody know?
Cheers,
Ian
Now, admittedly I'm not a KDE user so this might be something that KDE imposes rather than Libranet, but even so is it really necessary to have three submenus for this?
Cheers,
Ian
But you are a private individual (or company), and have little or no need for public accountability in those choices. The money you spent on the tools you choose is entirely your own.
This is entirely different to a public body's decision-making process. There, it is other people's money that is being spent. The choice should not be merely what's best for that body, but what's best for the people who are funding that body. It could be argued that the public should have a right to use software that they have funded.
I actually agree with your post, but I feel the debate is framed in a different manner to that which you suggest.
Cheers,
Ian
Nope, this model is based on the M board, as can by seen from the Buy Now link.
Cheers,
Ian
Hmm.
Cheers,
Ian
The lack of a UK Quicken version is the one thing stopping me getting a Mac. Seriously. I had other gripes before, but they've all been resolved one by one. I'm at the point where I'm considering getting one anyway and then running Quicken under VPC.
In the meantime, please email Intuit and tell them you want a version. I've done that, and got a polite response back saying that if there's enough interest it will be done. Of course, they won't know if there's any interest if nobody tells 'em...
Cheers,
Ian
But these are my accounts! I want to be protected against accidently deleting things. To take a random example, suppose I think I've clicked into a text field to start typing, whereas what I've really done is just highlighted the whole transation. I press delete and...
Oops. Hope I still have the bank statements for that one. I'll enjoy tracking the discrepency down, I'm sure...
Sometimes, it's good to have confirmation required before performing a destructive task. Imagine a similar review saying "And better still, no pesky usage screen or prompt - just typing the command name instantly low-level formats your SCSI RAID array...".
Cheers,
Ian
No rational reason. It's a habit I fell into quite a while ago (where "quite a while ago" is defined as about fifteen years ago...).
Cheers,
Ian