Financial planners (particularly Independent Financial Advisers in the UK) generally give substandard advice.
So you should find someone you trust (to have financial sense) who uses a financial adviser and recommends that adviser.
If your needs actually match something that isnt a product they sell, they wont tell you about it.
In my limited experience of one financial adviser, he has recommended various products to me. Some of these give him money if he sells them to me, some of them don't. You need to find an adviser who is honest and not just looking to get the maximum out of each client.
We have one of these. It cost GBP 500 (they were going cheap at Misco) for 1TB. It was easy to set up and seems to work fine. I don't know why the Thecus thing is 600 quid without any drives. It doesn't seem to offer much more.
NFS isn't necessary for streaming video - CIFS doesn't have enough overhead to cause a problem in that area. It's probably your video player that has a problem.
Nice link, thanks. A company in the UK (mentioned elsewhere) are offering the E6300 at around GBP 150. It looks like to get an Athlon X2 with similar performance you would have to pay quite a lot more, so that's exactly what I wanted to know. Looks like, unless AMD can get the heat and the price down significantly in the near future, my next machine will have an Intel processor.
Personally, I don't care about processors costing USD 400 or gaming performance, where CPU doesn't matter too much anyway. Are there any comparisons of the cheapest Core 2 processors with similarly priced AMDs?
It says 'a resident of the United States', not a citizen. What does this mean that the 'Country' entry on the registration form is to indicate? Nationality? Country of birth? Country in which your credit card is registered?
I'm not a resident of the US, anyway, so looks like I can't sign up without breaking the T&C.
VMWare Workstation also has the very useful multiple snapshot (and tree) feature - which makes testing much easier than with Virtual PC, where you have to play with files to get the same effect, and can easily get lost.
Google's service encrypts your stuff before sending it to Google, so they don't look at it - according to them. The others you pointed out don't do this.
The Bookmarks Sync extension doesn't work too well. It keeps losing bookmarks which I recently added. This is not a good thing.
"Because it is a professionally put together site it does look legitimate, although it should be obvious from the price that it isn't," Mr Phillips said.
Oh really? Let's see... if I want to download an album in a 'lossless' format, which gives me an exact copy of what's on the CD without losing quality, I have to pay about £5. The UK high street chain Fopp sells most albums on CD for £5 - and you get the physical media and booklet with that.
I presume Mr. Phillips is using the form of 'legitimate' whose inverse means 'illegal'. Is Fopp 'obviously' illegal too? Should we call them and ask how they feel about Mr. Phillips implying that they are running an illegal operation due to the prices of their CDs?
There's no reason why a CD should cost $20 (and only a dime going to the creator) when the manufacturing cost of CD is in pennies... just my two cents.
I've bought CDs which were produced by the content creator and cost closer to $20 than pennies. The reason they did was that the artist wanted to make money from the sale.
Do you think that all artists should give their work away for the cost of distribution, or that they should be allowed to ask their own price?
If artists only make a relatively small cut of the profits on their media, that's their fault for signing a contract with a publishing company which gives the publisher the larger share of the profit. There are now plenty of ways to distribute music and keep most of the sales income for yourself.
It looks pretty bad on my phone, a Sony Ericsson W800. Funny, though - I thought I recognised the name and the logo... I walked past that church 5 minutes ago. Small Internet, eh?
To get onto my personal site, everything goes through XHTML validation as the last stage of the build system. If it doesn't validate, it doesn't appear. I think it makes sense to do validation this way.
I see lots of sites with 'Valid (X)HTML' buttons, which when pressed go to W3C's validator, which checks the referrer. 9 times out of 10, it wasn't valid at all.
Refactoring mainly; it lacks the ability to move/rename classes
Right-click on the class' name, Refactor -> Rename.
Little things, like the display window where you can execute code at debug runtime, just aren't there.
It is there. It's called the 'Immediate Window' and it's visible by default. Enter a statement to execute it. Enter '?' followed by an expression to evaluate it and display the result.
I use the code-generation in Eclipse quite a lot; auto-creation of constructors, methods, assignments of parameters to fields and so on. It sounds cumbersome at first, but once you know the shortcuts you can spin off classes at crazy speeds. Visual Studio just didn't seem to have any of that.
My web server runs a 266Mhz PII and has one very quiet (I can hear it in the middle of the night if I press my ear to the side of the case) 80mm fan, blowing through the PSU. The machine (an old IBM desktop) cost GBP 15 on ebay. The fan cost about the same. I used to use a CF card, connected via an IDE adaptor, for storage, but needed more space and larger CF cards were too expensive at the time, so it has a hard drive now. That's the bit I can hear, but thankfully my web site isn't too popular so it's not annoying.
I've run it without the fan, but after a few weeks got worried that eventually something would overheat, so stuck it back in.
I didn't originally look at the actual trollish posts you linked to - I just picked a few from his history that had been marked down to -1.
I still don't think the first post you link to is a proper troll, though - it does bring up some valid points... but the user should still be banned for the other rubbish he's been posting.
Could be, but I've checked his previous posts, and he seems to get modded 'troll' or 'flamebait' quite a lot. This seems to be because he says things that aren't entirely pro-Linux or anti-Microsoft, rather than for actual trollish behaviour.
Actually I would consider this to be an issue of free speech. If I wish to discuss fashion designs the only real effective dialog to do so would be in pictures of the fashion designs I'm discussing. To prevent me from being able to post those pictures is to significantly inhibit my ability to discuss them.
I want to discuss modern Hollywood cinema. Preventing me from posting Ice Age 2 is significantly inhibiting my ability to discuss this!
I wouldn't be so dismissive of.NET. If it was possible to write apps with a Cocoa front-end using.NET, I'd be first in line to try it. Windows.Forms isn't too pleasant.
1. Large parts of Vista are built on existing code. If something's not broken, you don't rewrite it from scratch just so that you can say that you're using the latest and greatest technology. Not if you're smart, anyway. 2. Windows Forms applications feel slightly sluggish and start slower than native - even for very simple applications.
In the UK, if something breaks within the first year, the law says you can send it back and get a replacement or refund - the seller seems to get to choose which they offer, though I don't know if it's supposed to be up to them. Is this just a UK thing? Does everyone else have to buy a warranty?
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So you should find someone you trust (to have financial sense) who uses a financial adviser and recommends that adviser.
In my limited experience of one financial adviser, he has recommended various products to me. Some of these give him money if he sells them to me, some of them don't. You need to find an adviser who is honest and not just looking to get the maximum out of each client.
We have one of these. It cost GBP 500 (they were going cheap at Misco) for 1TB. It was easy to set up and seems to work fine. I don't know why the Thecus thing is 600 quid without any drives. It doesn't seem to offer much more.
NFS isn't necessary for streaming video - CIFS doesn't have enough overhead to cause a problem in that area. It's probably your video player that has a problem.
Nice link, thanks. A company in the UK (mentioned elsewhere) are offering the E6300 at around GBP 150. It looks like to get an Athlon X2 with similar performance you would have to pay quite a lot more, so that's exactly what I wanted to know. Looks like, unless AMD can get the heat and the price down significantly in the near future, my next machine will have an Intel processor.
Personally, I don't care about processors costing USD 400 or gaming performance, where CPU doesn't matter too much anyway. Are there any comparisons of the cheapest Core 2 processors with similarly priced AMDs?
How come if you buy CD-Rs labelled as 'audio', 'for music', or similar, they cost several times the price of 'data' CDs? Is this not a tax?
Which Sarbanes-Oxley rule forbids behaviour like that of WGA? Just interested.
It says 'a resident of the United States', not a citizen. What does this mean that the 'Country' entry on the registration form is to indicate? Nationality? Country of birth? Country in which your credit card is registered?
I'm not a resident of the US, anyway, so looks like I can't sign up without breaking the T&C.
VMWare Workstation also has the very useful multiple snapshot (and tree) feature - which makes testing much easier than with Virtual PC, where you have to play with files to get the same effect, and can easily get lost.
Google's service encrypts your stuff before sending it to Google, so they don't look at it - according to them. The others you pointed out don't do this.
The Bookmarks Sync extension doesn't work too well. It keeps losing bookmarks which I recently added. This is not a good thing.
From the linked BBC article:
Oh really? Let's see... if I want to download an album in a 'lossless' format, which gives me an exact copy of what's on the CD without losing quality, I have to pay about £5. The UK high street chain Fopp sells most albums on CD for £5 - and you get the physical media and booklet with that.
I presume Mr. Phillips is using the form of 'legitimate' whose inverse means 'illegal'. Is Fopp 'obviously' illegal too? Should we call them and ask how they feel about Mr. Phillips implying that they are running an illegal operation due to the prices of their CDs?
I've bought CDs which were produced by the content creator and cost closer to $20 than pennies. The reason they did was that the artist wanted to make money from the sale.
Do you think that all artists should give their work away for the cost of distribution, or that they should be allowed to ask their own price?
If artists only make a relatively small cut of the profits on their media, that's their fault for signing a contract with a publishing company which gives the publisher the larger share of the profit. There are now plenty of ways to distribute music and keep most of the sales income for yourself.
Yes, providing a separate stylesheet should work. The easiest way to get it working could just be to provide an empty stylesheet.
It looks pretty bad on my phone, a Sony Ericsson W800. Funny, though - I thought I recognised the name and the logo... I walked past that church 5 minutes ago. Small Internet, eh?
To get onto my personal site, everything goes through XHTML validation as the last stage of the build system. If it doesn't validate, it doesn't appear. I think it makes sense to do validation this way.
I see lots of sites with 'Valid (X)HTML' buttons, which when pressed go to W3C's validator, which checks the referrer. 9 times out of 10, it wasn't valid at all.
So if it's legal to 'format shift', does that mean it's now illegal to try to prevent this with 'copy protection' mechanisms?
Right-click on the class' name, Refactor -> Rename.
It is there. It's called the 'Immediate Window' and it's visible by default. Enter a statement to execute it. Enter '?' followed by an expression to evaluate it and display the result.
Look up 'snippets'.
Did you actually use VS.NET 2005?
My web server runs a 266Mhz PII and has one very quiet (I can hear it in the middle of the night if I press my ear to the side of the case) 80mm fan, blowing through the PSU. The machine (an old IBM desktop) cost GBP 15 on ebay. The fan cost about the same. I used to use a CF card, connected via an IDE adaptor, for storage, but needed more space and larger CF cards were too expensive at the time, so it has a hard drive now. That's the bit I can hear, but thankfully my web site isn't too popular so it's not annoying.
I've run it without the fan, but after a few weeks got worried that eventually something would overheat, so stuck it back in.
I stand corrected: timecop is obviously a troll.
I didn't originally look at the actual trollish posts you linked to - I just picked a few from his history that had been marked down to -1.
I still don't think the first post you link to is a proper troll, though - it does bring up some valid points... but the user should still be banned for the other rubbish he's been posting.
Could be, but I've checked his previous posts, and he seems to get modded 'troll' or 'flamebait' quite a lot. This seems to be because he says things that aren't entirely pro-Linux or anti-Microsoft, rather than for actual trollish behaviour.
I want to discuss modern Hollywood cinema. Preventing me from posting Ice Age 2 is significantly inhibiting my ability to discuss this!
What I'm most interested in:
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Here's a vote for Sequoiaview, which does a similar thing in a different way.
Rik
I wouldn't be so dismissive of .NET. If it was possible to write apps with a Cocoa front-end using .NET, I'd be first in line to try it. Windows.Forms isn't too pleasant.
1. Large parts of Vista are built on existing code. If something's not broken, you don't rewrite it from scratch just so that you can say that you're using the latest and greatest technology. Not if you're smart, anyway.
2. Windows Forms applications feel slightly sluggish and start slower than native - even for very simple applications.
In the UK, if something breaks within the first year, the law says you can send it back and get a replacement or refund - the seller seems to get to choose which they offer, though I don't know if it's supposed to be up to them. Is this just a UK thing? Does everyone else have to buy a warranty?