Well, I suppose Redmond is a long way from New Orleans, so perhaps they haven't noticed the effect that America's love affair with wasting as much as possible is having on the real world.
Ooh, yes, I'm sure I can spare half a gig of RAM just to keep the email client's UI satisfied!!
Pull the other one. An email client is something you keep loaded all the time, but you still need most of the machine available to do some real work. Nobody without a ludicrous amount of excess hardware can afford to keep a Java application running that they're not actually using continuously, so surely to goodnes an email client is absolutely the first thing you want written in a proper language??
(Unless of course your Java email client is command line only, in which case not so much of a problem, provided you restart it every hour or so.)
You know, it's crazy giving cops tools like Microsoft Office or StarOffice in the first place. 99.99% of people who use word processors don't get past the part where you hit keys and watch text appear on the screen. Oh yeah, and open and save documents. That's all they ever do.
You've spent how long exactly sitting in a UK police station watching policemen use computers? Your experience does not coincide with mine.
... I borrowed a computer from work (Acorn Archimedes I think it was in those days) and wrote a rather simple program: whenever any key on the keyboard was pressed the entire screen turned a randomly chosen different colour, and a random note was played.
The baby soon got the hang of thumping the keyboard with her fist and knowing that changing the colour and playing the music was under her control!
....... if your car is stolen, and the congestion charge system knows exactly where it is, you really really don't want to be told, and if somebody does get your car back for you then you want them to go to prison. What an odd chap.
My ISPs believe, correctly, that I don't wish to receive any emailed viruses, and throw them away for me. (Yep, there are even Linux server-side detectors for Windows viruses.)
Now, if only I could get them to do the same for spam...
(1) Some software that comes with a fixed price, or a fixed recurring licence fee, with support included?
(2) Some software that's free, but, uh, you can probably find someone to support it if you pay them, but, uh, they haven't quite sussed out their business model yet, so they don't really know how much to charge, or whether they'll still be in business towards the end of your planned eight year life for this system?
Now, let's see. Fixed price means software quality is as high as they can get it, because fixing problems costs the supplier.
Free software with pay as you go maintenance makes more money for the supplier if... they ship crap code in the first place and charge you for fixing it later.
... what this American obsession with secrecy of "social security numbers" is?
Surely they can't be a security-by-obscurity magic code that is used both as an identifier and as a password, so that possession of this single piece of information permits identity theft?
Assuming that it isn't, why do people get so worked up about it?
(And if it is, well, how daft is that ?!!*?!?**!!?)
Here are a number of reasons why I would personally consider it not sensible to buy drugs from a spam:
(1) If they can't even spell the name of the drug right how on earth can I rely on their products being safe?
(2) Er, they're selling drugs. If I have a medical problem, I have a medical problem, and what I need is diagnosis, not to go out and buy some drug at random that may or may not cure me and also may or may not kill me. So, whilst I am sometimes in the market for a consultation with a doctor, I am never in the market to acquire drugs directly. Advertising "no prescription required" is completely insane, surely, as nobody in their right mind would guess what drug they need without consulting a doctor?? And when they have consulted a doctor they just go and get their drugs locally in the normal way, so that you can get them today not some time later when the post delivers, and free of charge (as is the doctor) (if you live somewhere civilised).
(3) You don't know what you're getting. You take a proper prescription to a proper chemist and you get what it says on the label. You order something from a scammer, and you may well get some pills the right colour, but how the hell do you know what's actually in them??
(4) Spammers are de facto scammers anyway. Place an order, your money is taken, is anything, even fakes of dubious value, ever going to turn up??
One could go on.
So, how come anyone ever buys these drugs? And they must do so, or the spam would have dried up. Is this some strange cultural thing in some part of the world I'm not familiar with?
I read that as relating to the voting needs of people who can't actually walk normally into a polling station.
This happened once when I was telling at a UK election. The voter was driven up in a car, but was unable to walk into the polling station. The presiding officer then asked the representatives of the candidates if we would object to him taking a ballot paper out to her car.
Of course we didn't object, he took a ballot paper out to her car, she marked her cross, he put it in the ballot box. Quite possibly illegal, for all we knew, but there was a clear agreement between the election official and representatives of all the political parties that this was the right thing to do.
How would she have voted at a polling station that used machines rather than pencils and pieces of paper?
If anyone is monitoring me like that, in an identifiable manner, it's only legal if they've included what they're doing in their Data Protection Act registration and follow all the requirements of the Data Protection Act.
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Well, I suppose Redmond is a long way from New Orleans, so perhaps they haven't noticed the effect that America's love affair with wasting as much as possible is having on the real world.
email client written in Java
Ooh, yes, I'm sure I can spare half a gig of RAM just to keep the email client's UI satisfied!!
Pull the other one. An email client is something you keep loaded all the time, but you still need most of the machine available to do some real work. Nobody without a ludicrous amount of excess hardware can afford to keep a Java application running that they're not actually using continuously, so surely to goodnes an email client is absolutely the first thing you want written in a proper language??
(Unless of course your Java email client is command line only, in which case not so much of a problem, provided you restart it every hour or so.)
... note that as the EU expands eastwards the definition of "Eastern Europe" keeps changing.
This is because the EU is "clearly" in "the West", so no countries which are part of the EU are in "Eastern Europe", even if they were last year.
So, whilst "Eastern Europe" used to mean places like Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland etc it now means Ukraine and points east.
You know, it's crazy giving cops tools like Microsoft Office or StarOffice in the first place. 99.99% of people who use word processors don't get past the part where you hit keys and watch text appear on the screen. Oh yeah, and open and save documents. That's all they ever do.
You've spent how long exactly sitting in a UK police station watching policemen use computers? Your experience does not coincide with mine.
I'm typing this on a box quite happily running NT 4.0 Server SP5, it's fast enough for anything I want to do.
... I borrowed a computer from work (Acorn Archimedes I think it was in those days) and wrote a rather simple program: whenever any key on the keyboard was pressed the entire screen turned a randomly chosen different colour, and a random note was played.
The baby soon got the hang of thumping the keyboard with her fist and knowing that changing the colour and playing the music was under her control!
... has sufficiently little clue as to put up a page that can't be read without horizontally scrolling each line (or otherwise faffing about).
So, how can one reasonably assume that he isn't also so clueless that what he's written about office applications isn't worth reading?
"taking 5 minutes in the morning to make them a sandwich."
And where exactly are those five minutes going to come from? - you've got to be joking!!
Any kids of mine want sandwiches to take to school they make them themselves. (Well, they do when my wife's not at home, anyway.)
But for a quick weather forecast, I still just flick on my tv at seven :-)
:-)
Ah, but for that you need a TV, which I don't have
... the online aviation forecasts. Proper maps, and more detail - just pick the TAF for your nearest airfield.
Nope, it's the thief's personal data.
....... if your car is stolen, and the congestion charge system knows exactly where it is, you really really don't want to be told, and if somebody does get your car back for you then you want them to go to prison. What an odd chap.
Yes, in civilised countries it's illegal to display a price which is less than what you actually have to pay.
... months, certainly, years perhaps.
...
My ISPs believe, correctly, that I don't wish to receive any emailed viruses, and throw them away for me. (Yep, there are even Linux server-side detectors for Windows viruses.)
Now, if only I could get them to do the same for spam
(1) Some software that comes with a fixed price, or a fixed recurring licence fee, with support included?
... they ship crap code in the first place and charge you for fixing it later.
(2) Some software that's free, but, uh, you can probably find someone to support it if you pay them, but, uh, they haven't quite sussed out their business model yet, so they don't really know how much to charge, or whether they'll still be in business towards the end of your planned eight year life for this system?
Now, let's see. Fixed price means software quality is as high as they can get it, because fixing problems costs the supplier.
Free software with pay as you go maintenance makes more money for the supplier if
Hmm. Tricky purchasing decision that!
Some of us have to earn a living. If potential clients can't contact us as easily as possible they'll just try someone else.
... news:cam.misc, where this news broke some time ago, like within hours of the burglary.
... what this American obsession with secrecy of "social security numbers" is?
Surely they can't be a security-by-obscurity magic code that is used both as an identifier and as a password, so that possession of this single piece of information permits identity theft?
Assuming that it isn't, why do people get so worked up about it?
(And if it is, well, how daft is that ?!!*?!?**!!?)
Trains running on time in fascist Italy
I would never consider cooperating with the Chinese until China becomes a normal country (free elections, non-hostile government, etc.)
Let me guess - you're not American!
(Rigged elections; government hostile to more countries than any other government on earth.)
Here are a number of reasons why I would personally consider it not sensible to buy drugs from a spam:
(1) If they can't even spell the name of the drug right how on earth can I rely on their products being safe?
(2) Er, they're selling drugs. If I have a medical problem, I have a medical problem, and what I need is diagnosis, not to go out and buy some drug at random that may or may not cure me and also may or may not kill me. So, whilst I am sometimes in the market for a consultation with a doctor, I am never in the market to acquire drugs directly. Advertising "no prescription required" is completely insane, surely, as nobody in their right mind would guess what drug they need without consulting a doctor?? And when they have consulted a doctor they just go and get their drugs locally in the normal way, so that you can get them today not some time later when the post delivers, and free of charge (as is the doctor) (if you live somewhere civilised).
(3) You don't know what you're getting. You take a proper prescription to a proper chemist and you get what it says on the label. You order something from a scammer, and you may well get some pills the right colour, but how the hell do you know what's actually in them??
(4) Spammers are de facto scammers anyway. Place an order, your money is taken, is anything, even fakes of dubious value, ever going to turn up??
One could go on.
So, how come anyone ever buys these drugs? And they must do so, or the spam would have dried up. Is this some strange cultural thing in some part of the world I'm not familiar with?
... from which we can only deduce that the penis scam spannners are all women!!
I read that as relating to the voting needs of people who can't actually walk normally into a polling station.
This happened once when I was telling at a UK election. The voter was driven up in a car, but was unable to walk into the polling station. The presiding officer then asked the representatives of the candidates if we would object to him taking a ballot paper out to her car.
Of course we didn't object, he took a ballot paper out to her car, she marked her cross, he put it in the ballot box. Quite possibly illegal, for all we knew, but there was a clear agreement between the election official and representatives of all the political parties that this was the right thing to do.
How would she have voted at a polling station that used machines rather than pencils and pieces of paper?
Whitelists also eliminate 100% of approaches from potential new customers ... it's not entirely clear how I could earn a living if I did that.
If anyone is monitoring me like that, in an identifiable manner, it's only legal if they've included what they're doing in their Data Protection Act registration and follow all the requirements of the Data Protection Act.