You mean like the way most a lot of mail servers now reject excecutable atachments (that is all *.exe files, and possibly *.pif's too (at least I presume they block.pif too it would seem logical)) by bouncing the mail bakc at you and telling you to zip the file up if you really want to send it.
Now this is annoying at first when you get stuff bounced, but hey I can see their point and zipping stuff ain;t that hard.
Or to put it another way it is, everything is an object of some sort. Granted software is merely a bit pattern on your disk but it's still something physical.
Likewise your toilet can also be copied. Of course copying software is a lot easier, but hey one day maybe we will overcome the problem of speedy toilet replication.
> If deregulation is so bad, then why - more than a decade after it occurred in the UK - do my parents pay a fraction what they used to, and they can't remember when they last had a power outage? Their quarterly electricity bill is less than half my two monthly bill here in Toronto.
Possible because americans really have no self control? Bah you should be ashamed!
> It should also be defined as 2 million part time jobs. The call centers in Greensboro NC where I went to school had staff almost entirely made up of students. No one was allowed to work over 40 hours a week
Where I come from 37.5 hours is generally considered full time. (7.5 hours a day, 5 days). Sure sounds like everyone was allowed to work full time to me.
I've been looking for a new mail client for a while, though I would like to convert (some) of my old mail.
Unfortunatly I have not found anything capable of doing it.
I'm using Calypso (which I found after realising outlook sucked) which subsequently died and is now possibly coming back under a new company, irrigardless of which my main reason for wanting a new client now is having something cross platform.
So is there any soluitiuon to my problem or am I going to have to archive all mt old mail off and start again. (not that that's a bad thing for 95% of it;-) )
Although 90% (probably more) of "Limited Edition" CD's are nothing more than a poor marketing scam.
They have lost their purpose, in fact nowadays with multiple versions of albums and different versions in different regions etc this just serve to piss off the consumer that an album they already bought has had another track put on it (that that actually want) and creates resentment.
The purpose of "limited editions" should be nothing more than different covers, or maybe re-releases years later. Unfortunatly it seems nowadays the industry has so little tallant they have no other option but to try and sell you the same thing many times with slight variations.
I no longer care about media myself, it fact to me a file is just a physical as a CD is, after all they are both just representations of 0's and 1's on a disk surface.
> They won't have to pay another 5k for office 200(current_year+1).
Wh osays they do? For instance here we are still using office 97 on nt 4, and this is is a very large company (multiple sites many 1000's of people per site)
This may be annoying to some but they do have a point. And it can easily be gotten around for the few that are that bothered.
Though I really wish that online stores that have no intention of shipping to me would do this (or at least a warning (in case you want to order something while youi are elsewhere)) because it would save a lot of bother.
I would doubt any government body would ever go for the lowest bidder.
In fact they are more likely to dicard the top and bottom bids (never trust the extremes) and then pick the highest bid left.
Why? Because then they have someone to blame. If they picked the lowest bid , the person choosing the contract is to blame. If they pick a reasonable bid them blame moves on to the contractors.
Remember working in the govermener is all about the blame game.
And rememebr it's not just governement. Any sufficiantly large company runs deperments in such a way.
Also eveyone you ask about it will admit it is a very flawed way of operatins but no one want to change it. Why? Because you don't want ot go against the flow in a large organisation.
You can use it to your advantage at times though. The best time to apply for funding etc is about 2 months before the end of a departments financial year etc.
> People who do any drug, legal or not, and then get behind the wheel of a car, are criminals.
Any drug? That seems like a ridiculous overstatement to me.
Many drugs have no effect on driving. For instance take "ventolin" for asthmatics, in that case I would feel them not taking the "drug" would cause detrement to their driving.
What about plain old caffine? Shoulf all drivers abstain from that too.
Anyway enough picking I've got work to do!
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Unfortunatly without knowing the "CORRECT" answer to this question it is impossible to assertain wheather it is offensive or not.
So shut up, you suck.
Does anyone really care anymore?
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Come on beyond a few people this sort of speed really isn't necessary is it!
For most people when processors hit 750 mhz that was enough for them. And then MS released XP but that only raised the stakes a slight bit. 1.2 ghz is enough for 90% of people out there!
Yet some people still crave speed, I have an aunt who does nowt more than send a few emails a month and play minesweeper and (much to my annoyance as I may use it for maybe 5% of my tasks) she has a faster cpu than me!
On a side note, what's happeneing with AMD these days? they seem to really be losing it at the high end, it terms of both value and performance. there 3200 seems only about as good as a p4 2800 of so.
Still they still are the better choice at the same end of the pricing scale below the curve of insanity!
Personally I'd much prefer some nice advances in some other area, cpu's are dull these days and I doubt 64 bit will convince me otherwise.
> I was doing the said activities on a 100 MHz machine back in the old days without much trouble.
Bah you make me feel old. I started word processing on my speccy (+3, tape would have probably put me off a bit)) way back sometime, and I still have the printer somewhere about here! (panasonic kxp-1081 i think) Come to think of it I probably still have the machine! bet the disk drives dead though!
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>A second-rate developer may only make 90% of what a first-rate developer does, but produces about half the results and lots more bugs
This sentence is fine.
>A third-rate developer might make 80% as much, and produce 1/5 the amount of code and vastly more bugs for the others to fix.
This unfortunatly seems to be re-itterating the stupid notion that it is about the no of lines of code you right.
Please think borfore commenting.
You mean like the way most a lot of mail servers now reject excecutable atachments (that is all *.exe files, and possibly *.pif's too (at least I presume they block .pif too it would seem logical)) by bouncing the mail bakc at you and telling you to zip the file up if you really want to send it.
Now this is annoying at first when you get stuff bounced, but hey I can see their point and zipping stuff ain;t that hard.
Yeah somebody needs to get a cluebat out before they think about licencing programmers ;-)
Or is that going to be their next idea?
It said the cd is with the SUNDAY papers, not the daily ones.
Daily and sunday papers are completely different markets.
Hopefully this will mean that the sunday paper can
stop being so big!
> Software isn't an object.
Or to put it another way it is, everything is an object of some sort. Granted software is merely a bit pattern on your disk but it's still something physical.
Likewise your toilet can also be copied. Of course copying software is a lot easier, but hey one day maybe we will overcome the problem of speedy toilet replication.
> If deregulation is so bad, then why - more than a decade after it occurred in the UK - do my parents pay a fraction what they used to, and they can't remember when they last had a power outage? Their quarterly electricity bill is less than half my two monthly bill here in Toronto.
Possible because americans really have no self control? Bah you should be ashamed!
> lots of RAM
Seems either your definition of lots is outdated or just very unlikely.
win 9x tends to choke with more than 512mb ram, lower on some motherboards.
I regard 512mb as a minimum budget choice these days. (ie to be avaoided if atall possible which is is given ram prices)
> It should also be defined as 2 million part time jobs. The call centers in Greensboro NC where I went to school had staff almost entirely made up of students. No one was allowed to work over 40 hours a week
Where I come from 37.5 hours is generally considered full time. (7.5 hours a day, 5 days). Sure sounds like everyone was allowed to work full time to me.
I've been looking for a new mail client for a while, though I would like to convert (some) of my old mail.
;-) )
Unfortunatly I have not found anything capable of doing it.
I'm using Calypso (which I found after realising outlook sucked) which subsequently died and is now possibly coming back under a new company, irrigardless of which my main reason for wanting a new client now is having something cross platform.
So is there any soluitiuon to my problem or am I going to have to archive all mt old mail off and start again. (not that that's a bad thing for 95% of it
I'd at least wonder why 1650 players were tested with dvd-r and only 1239 were tested with dvd+r. seems to me like this kinda nullifies the test data.
I assume this is from submitted data thus being even more unreliable.
Although 90% (probably more) of "Limited Edition" CD's are nothing more than a poor marketing scam.
They have lost their purpose, in fact nowadays with multiple versions of albums and different versions in different regions etc this just serve to piss off the consumer that an album they already bought has had another track put on it (that that actually want) and creates resentment.
The purpose of "limited editions" should be nothing more than different covers, or maybe re-releases years later. Unfortunatly it seems nowadays the industry has so little tallant they have no other option but to try and sell you the same thing many times with slight variations.
I no longer care about media myself, it fact to me a file is just a physical as a CD is, after all they are both just representations of 0's and 1's on a disk surface.
> They won't have to pay another 5k for office 200(current_year+1).
Wh osays they do? For instance here we are still using office 97 on nt 4, and this is is a very large company (multiple sites many 1000's of people per site)
Either deliplayer or zinf depending on my mood.
www.deliplayer.com/
http://www.zinf.org/
Please this is a troll, do not feed, ogg encodes plenty fast enough (faster than real time on my 1.8ghz athlon).
Depends a lot on how the fingerprint is generated.
If you alter the speewd up or down by just changing the sample rate neither would lose data, but only a fools fingerprint genorator would be fooled.
And re-encoding the data either way would loose information unless you intened on doing it from the source (ie CD).
Also, does anybody anybody use winamp anymore? Ick!
I'm not anti government, I'm anti stupidity.
And just because you'v eseen thing done a certain way doesn't mean others havn't seen them done another.
I hope at least we can agree that there's much stupidity in both ways we describe.
This may be annoying to some but they do have a point. And it can easily be gotten around for the few that are that bothered.
Though I really wish that online stores that have no intention of shipping to me would do this (or at least a warning (in case you want to order something while youi are elsewhere)) because it would save a lot of bother.
I would doubt any government body would ever go for the lowest bidder.
In fact they are more likely to dicard the top and bottom bids (never trust the extremes) and then pick the highest bid left.
Why? Because then they have someone to blame. If they picked the lowest bid , the person choosing the contract is to blame. If they pick a reasonable bid them blame moves on to the contractors.
Remember working in the govermener is all about the blame game.
I thought everyone already knew that.
And rememebr it's not just governement. Any sufficiantly large company runs deperments in such a way.
Also eveyone you ask about it will admit it is a very flawed way of operatins but no one want to change it. Why? Because you don't want ot go against the flow in a large organisation.
You can use it to your advantage at times though. The best time to apply for funding etc is about 2 months before the end of a departments financial year etc.
Sounds pretty much right.
If people wanted email to be private they would encrypt it.
And any excuse about them "not knowing how" is about as relevant as people not knowing what an envelope is (or indeed caring)
> People who do any drug, legal or not, and then get behind the wheel of a car, are criminals.
Any drug? That seems like a ridiculous overstatement to me.
Many drugs have no effect on driving. For instance take "ventolin" for asthmatics, in that case I would feel them not taking the "drug" would cause detrement to their driving.
What about plain old caffine? Shoulf all drivers abstain from that too.
Anyway enough picking I've got work to do!
Unfortunatly without knowing the "CORRECT" answer to this question it is impossible to assertain wheather it is offensive or not.
So shut up, you suck.
Come on beyond a few people this sort of speed really isn't necessary is it!
For most people when processors hit 750 mhz that was enough for them. And then MS released XP but that only raised the stakes a slight bit. 1.2 ghz is enough for 90% of people out there!
Yet some people still crave speed, I have an aunt who does nowt more than send a few emails a month and play minesweeper and (much to my annoyance as I may use it for maybe 5% of my tasks) she has a faster cpu than me!
On a side note, what's happeneing with AMD these days? they seem to really be losing it at the high end, it terms of both value and performance. there 3200 seems only about as good as a p4 2800 of so.
Still they still are the better choice at the same end of the pricing scale below the curve of insanity!
Personally I'd much prefer some nice advances in some other area, cpu's are dull these days and I doubt 64 bit will convince me otherwise.
> Only real disappointment is the lack of an AGP slot. You're stuck with the onboard video.
;-)
Last time I looked PCI gfx cards were still available
> I was doing the said activities on a 100 MHz machine back in the old days without much trouble.
Bah you make me feel old. I started word processing on my speccy (+3, tape would have probably put me off a bit)) way back sometime, and I still have the printer somewhere about here! (panasonic kxp-1081 i think) Come to think of it I probably still have the machine! bet the disk drives dead though!