I have seen people carrying serious cash like that in the UK and the usual way seems to be as a roll of notes.
I was in Jolliffe's in Marlow (the place where all the hired dress suits come from, but they can kit you out as anything) when a chap came in and asked for a grey chauffeur's uniform. They produced one from stock, and he paid for it in cash, peeled off a large roll of notes.
Even better, with a suitably modern TV, you don't need a separate remote. The TV remote will work through the HDMI connection and control XBMC on the RPi.
I started with a separate remote for the RPi, then realised I was using the wrong one and it still worked.
You may believe in both based on the evidence or feelings you experience. People believe in religion based on their experiences or feelings.
And do you spot the incredibly significant word which is present in your first sentence and missing from the second one? You've summed it up neatly - science is based on looking at the evidence, whilst religion is based on believing what you want to believe.
It's a helicopter if the writer pronounces the haitch
ITYM, "It's a helicopter if the writer pronounces the aitch"
Yes, no problem with that. If you pronounce horse as 'orse then it makes perfect sense to say "an 'orse". Likewise if you use the old-fashioned pronunciation of hotel then it makes perfect sense to say "an hotel". What gets me is the modern fashion for putting "an" before any word which begins with "h". (And indeed, the trick of adding a spurious "h" on the beginning of "aitch".)
During this period technology that the US long forget (such as ISDN) was as premium as you could get here
To be fair to ISDN, it's not technology that the US forgot - US telecoms never got quite that advanced. ISDN had some distinct advantages, but apart from in Germany, it was pretty much killed by telecom marketing wings who never really understood what they were selling.
I didn't see any hydraulics for mimicking the pitch, yaw, and roll.
That was my first thought too, but then I thought about naval simulators. I've been in a few of those, which are very much just large rooms with a lot of screens, and usually some raked seating at the back. They don't move at all, but it's funny to watch those standing on the "bridge" as they sway from side to side to keep their feet in rough seas. Yes, real simulators move around, but a lot can be achieved without.
In my experience, most software developers fall into neither category. The vast majority are un-skilled, un-talented plodders. When you come across one who is either skilled or talented you should cherish them.
The cable certainly is thick enough for a lethal current at 220V, provided it's applied in the right place. It's easy to conceive of a badly made charger which produces 5.5V between two of its conductors, but at 220V from earth, due to poor isolation. Then all the victim needs to do is earth another part of his or her body and away you go.
Only because Apple made it work properly and added a GUI instead of text files that bomb with a misplaced comma or tab.
Wow - you really haven't used linux in the last decade or so, have you?
Find a computer with an install of any of the major linux distributions, fire up a web browser, and point it to http://localhost:631/
You exaggerate the difficulties of setting up a printer using CUPS and a modern Linux distribution.;-)
I just did a little experiment. I'm sitting in a holiday house borrowed from friends, using my trusty Lenovo laptop running Debian Squeeze. Next to me on the bench is a printer - I've never used it before and it's been covered with a cloth up until the start of the experiment.
I removed the cloth, powered up the printer, and then plugged the USB lead into my laptop. About 10 seconds later a dialogue box appeared on my desktop saying, "A new printer has come into existence. Do you want to use this driver?". I answered yes. It then said, "Do you want to print a test page?" Again I said yes, and shortly afterwards there appeared a perfectly formatted colour test page.
I'm not sure it can be made much easier than this.
A great improvement, but it still seems to use that stupid window skin by default - it appears to be designed to waste as much vertical space as possible in the header of the window. Obviously this makes a lot of sense in a world of 16:9 monitors where vertical space is at a premium.
I can understand the Gnome guys re-working the internals of the desktop to make it more maintainable in the long term, and having been using it now for six months I find some of the features of Gnome 3 are quite nice - e.g. the ability to start a program just by hitting the command key and then typing the first few letters of its name. The bit that drags Gnome 3 down though is their insistence on taking away so many other useful time-saving features. There's no reason why the internals couldn't have been tidied up, and new time saving bits added, without crippling it at the same time.
My personal pet hate is the adoption of Windows's brain-dead approach to problem reporting - "Something went wrong". This is one of the worst possible mis-features of Windows, so why port it to Gnome?
This proposed hotel is the wrong way around. Instead of a restaurant above the water and bedrooms below, it would be much more sensible to have the restaurant and leisure facilities under water (where you can really appreciate the undersea views whilst you're awake) and the bedrooms above (so if the thing springs a leak in the middle of the night you don't all drown).
Almost all computers - particularly servers - are on Zulu time anyway. Even Windows I believe gets it right these days.
Once you realise that all time is really Zulu time, and timezones and daylight saving are just presentation issues, everything becomes *much* simpler.
I remember having to cope with earlier versions of Windows, where long-running programs would see the clock jump *forward* (yes really) by an hour in the autumn as daylight saving ended due to the brain-dead implementation of the system's daylight saving switch.
And from litres per 100 km you can then reduce your units and end up with a fuel consumption measured in square millimetres. Volume divided by length gives area.
If you'd asked that question 25 years ago I would have been able to help you.
Now I too have tapes which I wrote in Melbourne then, but no means to read them back. If I could only read them, I would happily dump them to a tiny bit of my current on-line storage and it would be nice to look at some of that old material.
The dangers of not keeping your storage media up to date...
There's another good reason to keep all your e-mails. If you keep the lot then you can say with much more certainty, "You never sent me an e-mail about that." You can search your archive with confidence that if it isn't there then it never existed.
It's very tempting to start deleting some, on the grounds that you just *know* that they aren't important enough to keep, but almost immediately you'll find yourself wavering over where exactly to draw the line. If you don't have a line - just store everything - then the whole process gets much faster. Gmail's Archive button is brilliant.
As someone else said, a few gigs of e-mail storage is nothing these days.
Then it's not properly designed, the whole point of locking the phone is so that you don't butt dial 911.
Quite the contrary - in many regions it's been a requirement of mobile phones that you can still dial whatever the local emergency code is (911, 999, etc.) or an international emergency code (112) without unlocking the phone.
Just try it now on your phone if it has physical buttons. Not sure how this works with touch screens though.
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I have seen people carrying serious cash like that in the UK and the usual way seems to be as a roll of notes.
I was in Jolliffe's in Marlow (the place where all the hired dress suits come from, but they can kit you out as anything) when a chap came in and asked for a grey chauffeur's uniform. They produced one from stock, and he paid for it in cash, peeled off a large roll of notes.
Even better, with a suitably modern TV, you don't need a separate remote. The TV remote will work through the HDMI connection and control XBMC on the RPi.
I started with a separate remote for the RPi, then realised I was using the wrong one and it still worked.
What an accidentally apposite comment.
Just like MS-DOS held back software development on the original PC, now Windows reins in the desktop world.
If you want to write a post in American English, then the correct spelling is Centimeter.
FTFY
If you want to write a post in English English, then the correct spelling is Centimetre.
HTH
What would you suggest calling it instead of a "laser rifle"?
Light sabre?
Seems suitable for getting through the blast doors.
You may believe in both based on the evidence or feelings you experience. People believe in religion based on their experiences or feelings.
And do you spot the incredibly significant word which is present in your first sentence and missing from the second one? You've summed it up neatly - science is based on looking at the evidence, whilst religion is based on believing what you want to believe.
It's a helicopter if the writer pronounces the haitch
ITYM, "It's a helicopter if the writer pronounces the aitch"
Yes, no problem with that. If you pronounce horse as 'orse then it makes perfect sense to say "an 'orse". Likewise if you use the old-fashioned pronunciation of hotel then it makes perfect sense to say "an hotel". What gets me is the modern fashion for putting "an" before any word which begins with "h". (And indeed, the trick of adding a spurious "h" on the beginning of "aitch".)
"an helicopter"? How far can this idiocy of putting "an" in front of any word beginning with h go?
It's "a helicopter".
During this period technology that the US long forget (such as ISDN) was as premium as you could get here
To be fair to ISDN, it's not technology that the US forgot - US telecoms never got quite that advanced. ISDN had some distinct advantages, but apart from in Germany, it was pretty much killed by telecom marketing wings who never really understood what they were selling.
I didn't see any hydraulics for mimicking the pitch, yaw, and roll.
That was my first thought too, but then I thought about naval simulators. I've been in a few of those, which are very much just large rooms with a lot of screens, and usually some raked seating at the back. They don't move at all, but it's funny to watch those standing on the "bridge" as they sway from side to side to keep their feet in rough seas. Yes, real simulators move around, but a lot can be achieved without.
but most fall into one category or another
In my experience, most software developers fall into neither category. The vast majority are un-skilled, un-talented plodders. When you come across one who is either skilled or talented you should cherish them.
The cable certainly is thick enough for a lethal current at 220V, provided it's applied in the right place. It's easy to conceive of a badly made charger which produces 5.5V between two of its conductors, but at 220V from earth, due to poor isolation. Then all the victim needs to do is earth another part of his or her body and away you go.
Their exclusion from the patent system would discourage some software innovations
Can anyone point to a single actual instance of a software innovation which wouldn't have become public without the benefit of patent protection?
Only because Apple made it work properly and added a GUI instead of text files that bomb with a misplaced comma or tab.
Wow - you really haven't used linux in the last decade or so, have you?
Find a computer with an install of any of the major linux distributions, fire up a web browser, and point it to http://localhost:631/
You exaggerate the difficulties of setting up a printer using CUPS and a modern Linux distribution. ;-)
I just did a little experiment. I'm sitting in a holiday house borrowed from friends, using my trusty Lenovo laptop running Debian Squeeze. Next to me on the bench is a printer - I've never used it before and it's been covered with a cloth up until the start of the experiment.
I removed the cloth, powered up the printer, and then plugged the USB lead into my laptop. About 10 seconds later a dialogue box appeared on my desktop saying, "A new printer has come into existence. Do you want to use this driver?". I answered yes. It then said, "Do you want to print a test page?" Again I said yes, and shortly afterwards there appeared a perfectly formatted colour test page.
I'm not sure it can be made much easier than this.
John
A great improvement, but it still seems to use that stupid window skin by default - it appears to be designed to waste as much vertical space as possible in the header of the window. Obviously this makes a lot of sense in a world of 16:9 monitors where vertical space is at a premium.
I can understand the Gnome guys re-working the internals of the desktop to make it more maintainable in the long term, and having been using it now for six months I find some of the features of Gnome 3 are quite nice - e.g. the ability to start a program just by hitting the command key and then typing the first few letters of its name. The bit that drags Gnome 3 down though is their insistence on taking away so many other useful time-saving features. There's no reason why the internals couldn't have been tidied up, and new time saving bits added, without crippling it at the same time.
My personal pet hate is the adoption of Windows's brain-dead approach to problem reporting - "Something went wrong". This is one of the worst possible mis-features of Windows, so why port it to Gnome?
This proposed hotel is the wrong way around. Instead of a restaurant above the water and bedrooms below, it would be much more sensible to have the restaurant and leisure facilities under water (where you can really appreciate the undersea views whilst you're awake) and the bedrooms above (so if the thing springs a leak in the middle of the night you don't all drown).
So the server's on Zulu time
Almost all computers - particularly servers - are on Zulu time anyway. Even Windows I believe gets it right these days.
Once you realise that all time is really Zulu time, and timezones and daylight saving are just presentation issues, everything becomes *much* simpler.
I remember having to cope with earlier versions of Windows, where long-running programs would see the clock jump *forward* (yes really) by an hour in the autumn as daylight saving ended due to the brain-dead implementation of the system's daylight saving switch.
Having said all that for reasons I don't understand Openreach want separate ducting for copper and fibre but that is just plain crazy if you ask me.
Obviously they are worried about cross-channel interference. That or the danger of high voltages on the fibre connections.
And from litres per 100 km you can then reduce your units and end up with a fuel consumption measured in square millimetres. Volume divided by length gives area.
IIRC, my Smart car used to do about 0.5 mm^2
Well obviously - it's because your gallons are smaller than proper gallons.
Can anyone in Melbourne read a 9 track tape?
If you'd asked that question 25 years ago I would have been able to help you.
Now I too have tapes which I wrote in Melbourne then, but no means to read them back. If I could only read them, I would happily dump them to a tiny bit of my current on-line storage and it would be nice to look at some of that old material.
The dangers of not keeping your storage media up to date...
Plus that Trash Bin program has _great_ compression!
but empirical tests indicate that it's lossy compression.
There's another good reason to keep all your e-mails. If you keep the lot then you can say with much more certainty, "You never sent me an e-mail about that." You can search your archive with confidence that if it isn't there then it never existed.
It's very tempting to start deleting some, on the grounds that you just *know* that they aren't important enough to keep, but almost immediately you'll find yourself wavering over where exactly to draw the line. If you don't have a line - just store everything - then the whole process gets much faster. Gmail's Archive button is brilliant.
As someone else said, a few gigs of e-mail storage is nothing these days.
Then it's not properly designed, the whole point of locking the phone is so that you don't butt dial 911.
Quite the contrary - in many regions it's been a requirement of mobile phones that you can still dial whatever the local emergency code is (911, 999, etc.) or an international emergency code (112) without unlocking the phone.
Just try it now on your phone if it has physical buttons. Not sure how this works with touch screens though.
He will realize Ubuntu has problems, and he will eventually switch to Debian.
And then his journey to the Dark Side will be complete.