As an ex-Adelaidian, 10 years is like yesterday. The thing about the Adelaide-Melbourne love-hate relationship is that Adelaide fails to see its true enemy: Sydney. At least Melbourne acknowleges Adelaide's existence.
Anyway, congrats on hosting LCA2004 and hope it goes swimmingly. I would be there but for this Maths Bridging course.
Overseas, one of Australia's six states has passed legislation mandating the use of open-source code
1. The Australian Capital Territory is not at State
2. The legislation does not mandate open source software, but mandates only that it be considered.
Complimenting clothes can get you into trouble...
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Paul Graham uses an example of PC-think where people were directed not to compliment other's clothes at work.
In Japan, in the early 80s I was at a party in a hotel (not a private room) where my friend got into trouble for complimenting a married women on her dress. He spent ages trying to iffuse the situation, but his broken Japanese just made it worse I think.
That night was a real cultural experience. A bunch of crane drivers I was drinking with kept grabbing my hand and putting it on the breasts/crotch of a hostess/waitress that was with us. My then-fiance (now wife) had gone to bed earlier. There was also a middle-aged women singing karaoke while the video behind them depicted not so soft-porn. And then there was the conversation with the Yakuza-in in a Pachinko parlour... but I digress
And this was my first visit to Japan. What an intro.
Interesting field. We were given a presentation on gold abd bacteria early last year. I also was told of work looking at gold uptake in plants to assist with gold prospecting. I asked if it was passive or active (like silicon in some plants). Not sure was the reply.
The first time a Minister or Dept. Head cannot open a memo or check a calendar because of file format problems someone will have to answer. Risk of this occurring increases as Redmond moves to close its file formats.
This is happening now. The travesty is this incompatibility is forced on those who have to deal with governments and don't have the "glory" of being on an MS upgrade fast track. The govt upgrades its software and send documents to its "clients" who can't read them without upgrading their software that they paid through the nose for last time they were sent illegible files. These files were created by software products from the same company with the same product name.
This inward looking behaviour of putting one's own prestige and "convenience" ahead of those one purports to serve is no way to run an open and accountable government.
I concur. I have have good service from them. The first level support I got from Sun was the same. Courteous, helpful and knowledgable enough to know where to direct me for the support I needed.
For example, if the origonal Mickey Mouse cartoons came out of copyright, someone could make"mickey the porn star" and get away with it (since disney no longer has the copyright)
And wouldn't that be ironic as Disney's animations have plundered and distorted many public domain tales and stories.
Are you saying companies can act in any capricious manner they feel like, in any jurisdiction, untrammelled by regulation, because "The market knows best"?
We have in Australia a Trade Practices Act that precludes companies from making misleading claims about their or a competitor's product in the marketplace. While it is not perfect, it is at least some defence for consumers where litigation is heavily favoured on the side of those with the biggest bank balance.
My first and only programming language in 3rd year High School. We would fill in mark-sense cards with our HB pencils and send them off to the South Australian Education Department's Angle Park computer facility. A week later we found out if we got the syntax corect and, if the program was simple enough, correct output.
Kangaroo farm? Most farms in Australia are kangaroo farms by default. Red and Eastern Grey Kangaroos are generally at "plague" proportions due to increased access to water (dams, bores), increase in pasture lands and fertilisers. If we can develop a bigger market for kangaroo meat and skins, they indeed would become precious.
I myself prefer to cook a 1.5 cm thick slab of roo meat in a pan with olive oil, cooking it to medium rare.
Came across the site about a month ago. I was looking up the report on mapping of sea canyons south of Australia. The head of my Geology Dept was on the trip trip and he also got airtime on our ABC Science TV show Catalyst.
The recent story of the unidentified "sea blubber" washed up on the Peruvian coast was a opportunity to show my kids the NorfANZ site. The coffin fish got the award for "freakiest fish".
IIRC, MS was contracted by IBM to develop OS/2 in partnership. MS stalled while it went ahead and developed it's DOS environment to run Excel on something other than the Macintosh -> MS Windows was born.
MS can't white-ant Linux in the same fashion. They have the weapon that IBM perfected in the seventies - FUD. They can also employ a wide range of client puppets to attack Linux on their behalf. SCO?, BSA, various Govts.
One Question:-
With 5 acres, what is you water supply? Chances are the water catchment is overutilised already. Make sure you are part of the solution and not the problem.
Good luck.
Re:How immature of Mr. Packard...
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Looking at a History of Unix, I would say forking has not often led to widely divergent streams, but rather to future anastomisation, ofent being richer for it. For example, BSD's early divergence led to the future adoption of features back into System V.
It's the media that adds the "this killed the dinosaurs" hype to it. They merely find evidence of collisions, but it's near impossible to accurately date them.
I am not sure about the impossibility story. Reworking of the surrounding and subsequently formed rock structures certainly makes it difficult. For example, if one can put date on rocks that were obviously disturbed by the impact, this puts a "floor" on the oldest time of the impact. Difficult, but not impossible.
Many of the craters probably predate all life on earth. Maybe one of em is the one that split off the big chunk of rock that we call the Moon now.
Here is some ideas on how we got the moon. An impact of that size would have obliterated most of the outer surface of the [much larger than today's earth] proto-earth. Of course this is just a hypothesis, but it does seem to correlate with observed data. It also can be used to explain the tilt in the earth's axis.
Slashdot Mirror
It is also rather dumb in not using proxy setting where it can find them when trying to connect back to the "0wned" 1.php sites around the world
I'm not sure how many times George can pull of movies like this classic
When I left CS there, they had two VAX11/780s. Has it changed ;-)
As an ex-Adelaidian, 10 years is like yesterday. The thing about the Adelaide-Melbourne love-hate relationship is that Adelaide fails to see its true enemy: Sydney. At least Melbourne acknowleges Adelaide's existence. Anyway, congrats on hosting LCA2004 and hope it goes swimmingly. I would be there but for this Maths Bridging course.
Overseas, one of Australia's six states has passed legislation mandating the use of open-source code
1. The Australian Capital Territory is not at State
2. The legislation does not mandate open source software, but mandates only that it be considered.
Paul Graham uses an example of PC-think where people were directed not to compliment other's clothes at work. In Japan, in the early 80s I was at a party in a hotel (not a private room) where my friend got into trouble for complimenting a married women on her dress. He spent ages trying to iffuse the situation, but his broken Japanese just made it worse I think. That night was a real cultural experience. A bunch of crane drivers I was drinking with kept grabbing my hand and putting it on the breasts/crotch of a hostess/waitress that was with us. My then-fiance (now wife) had gone to bed earlier. There was also a middle-aged women singing karaoke while the video behind them depicted not so soft-porn. And then there was the conversation with the Yakuza-in in a Pachinko parlour... but I digress And this was my first visit to Japan. What an intro.
Interesting field. We were given a presentation on gold abd bacteria early last year. I also was told of work looking at gold uptake in plants to assist with gold prospecting. I asked if it was passive or active (like silicon in some plants). Not sure was the reply.
The first time a Minister or Dept. Head cannot open a memo or check a calendar because of file format problems someone will have to answer. Risk of this occurring increases as Redmond moves to close its file formats.
This is happening now. The travesty is this incompatibility is forced on those who have to deal with governments and don't have the "glory" of being on an MS upgrade fast track. The govt upgrades its software and send documents to its "clients" who can't read them without upgrading their software that they paid through the nose for last time they were sent illegible files. These files were created by software products from the same company with the same product name.
This inward looking behaviour of putting one's own prestige and "convenience" ahead of those one purports to serve is no way to run an open and accountable government.
I concur. I have have good service from them. The first level support I got from Sun was the same. Courteous, helpful and knowledgable enough to know where to direct me for the support I needed.
Stable Isotope analysis of coral by ANU's Research School suggests a global effect.
http://wwwrses.anu.edu.au/environment/eePages/eeCu rrentResearch/research_Hendy2.html
Hubris is a wonderful thing. Keep an eye out. A bunch of fundamental Panther security flaws are going to appear in the next couple of months.
With a tag starting with Alby, surely you have to put the surname Shultz in that list as well.
For example, if the origonal Mickey Mouse cartoons came out of copyright, someone could make"mickey the porn star" and get away with it (since disney no longer has the copyright)
And wouldn't that be ironic as Disney's animations have plundered and distorted many public domain tales and stories.
Are you saying companies can act in any capricious manner they feel like, in any jurisdiction, untrammelled by regulation, because "The market knows best"?
We have in Australia a Trade Practices Act that precludes companies from making misleading claims about their or a competitor's product in the marketplace. While it is not perfect, it is at least some defence for consumers where litigation is heavily favoured on the side of those with the biggest bank balance.
Ah APL
My first and only programming language in 3rd year High School. We would fill in mark-sense cards with our HB pencils and send them off to the South Australian Education Department's Angle Park computer facility. A week later we found out if we got the syntax corect and, if the program was simple enough, correct output.
Covers Political parties.... They explicitly excluded political parties frlom the Privacy legislation.
This started about 1995 when people begain to conflate the Web with the Internet.
My annoyance is the opposite. Save something in "My Documents" and then inituitively try to find it using "Windows Explorer".
Kangaroo farm? Most farms in Australia are kangaroo farms by default. Red and Eastern Grey Kangaroos are generally at "plague" proportions due to increased access to water (dams, bores), increase in pasture lands and fertilisers. If we can develop a bigger market for kangaroo meat and skins, they indeed would become precious.
I myself prefer to cook a 1.5 cm thick slab of roo meat in a pan with olive oil, cooking it to medium rare.
Came across the site about a month ago. I was looking up the report on mapping of sea canyons south of Australia. The head of my Geology Dept was on the trip trip and he also got airtime on our ABC Science TV show Catalyst.
The recent story of the unidentified "sea blubber" washed up on the Peruvian coast was a opportunity to show my kids the NorfANZ site. The coffin fish got the award for "freakiest fish".
IIRC, MS was contracted by IBM to develop OS/2 in partnership. MS stalled while it went ahead and developed it's DOS environment to run Excel on something other than the Macintosh -> MS Windows was born. MS can't white-ant Linux in the same fashion. They have the weapon that IBM perfected in the seventies - FUD. They can also employ a wide range of client puppets to attack Linux on their behalf. SCO?, BSA, various Govts.
One Question:- With 5 acres, what is you water supply? Chances are the water catchment is overutilised already. Make sure you are part of the solution and not the problem. Good luck.
Looking at a History of Unix, I would say forking has not often led to widely divergent streams, but rather to future anastomisation, ofent being richer for it. For example, BSD's early divergence led to the future adoption of features back into System V.
Cars: Certainly not the US. Try Daimler-Benz in Germany for the oldest manufacturer. Somewhere in Europe I'm told.
It's the media that adds the "this killed the dinosaurs" hype to it. They merely find evidence of collisions, but it's near impossible to accurately date them.
I am not sure about the impossibility story. Reworking of the surrounding and subsequently formed rock structures certainly makes it difficult. For example, if one can put date on rocks that were obviously disturbed by the impact, this puts a "floor" on the oldest time of the impact. Difficult, but not impossible.
Many of the craters probably predate all life on earth. Maybe one of em is the one that split off the big chunk of rock that we call the Moon now.
Here is some ideas on how we got the moon. An impact of that size would have obliterated most of the outer surface of the [much larger than today's earth] proto-earth. Of course this is just a hypothesis, but it does seem to correlate with observed data. It also can be used to explain the tilt in the earth's axis.