Its obvious to everyone else: Because the CEO of the merged company gets more lining in his pockets, and the customers get a worse negotiation position.
Your grandfather needs to reread his history books before making up fake anecdotes. They were a lot more reliable than the anecdotes from my Paternal grandfather;-> Neither grandfather is about to re-read any history, as they are both firmly part of it, having been dead for over 20 years. Both were born before 1900.
The grandfather who made these remarks made radios himself - famously demonstrating one to a gardener who remarked "That's music, innit?" on hearing classical music from this strange piece of kit. No other kids on the block had radios.
He was also an RAF pilot in the first world war - and lived to tell the tale! By "sheduled flights across europe", he meant, and probably said more explicity (this quote was from 1962),
"in many different countries in Europe", and not between countries, or may have said "internationally", as in Englant to France (under 100 miles). Even in the 1960's, when my grandmother went to Liberia, she went by ship, not plane.
The underlying point was that human perception affects things in quite deep and subtle ways, and that over life-time scale, subjective judgements are very unreliable. I think that has been demonstrated quite well in this thread.
My Grandfather observed "The changes between 1898 and 1914 were incredible - in 1898 we had no cars, planes, phones etc, (almost all transport was horse-drawn, and the rest was steam powered).
By 1914, we had sheduled international flights all across Europe and cheap Ford cars, phones, BBC radio, etc".
He observed that besides the technology content of the changes, there was a significant psychological factor:
By 1914, 1898 was "the last century" - he went on to predict that by 2014, 1998 would be "the last millenium" and things would seem even more old-fashioned. Of course we cannot know the future, but we also cannot know what is currently being developed behind closed doors. Invention is never at a steady pace - and many inventions may come in a single year after five years of no excitement.
Despite that, there might be a problem:
All current computers are just re-implementations of the PDP11 archictecture with minor improvements.
The iPhone is just a smaller version of the Memex predicted by Vannevar Bush
Necessity is the mother of all Frank Zappas. Maybe we don't actually need any more stuff! We need the stuff we have to work better!
There is enough food, housing and porn to go round! The main thing we really do need is a better system of government.
Wii have one, and ot be honest, wiifit is the only game worth playing - mostly because the developers have not followed the UI standards, and generally followed the same look and feel. The result is that the games appear badly implemented.
It may be that Nintendo do not supply guidelines in writing, but if the develoeprs had actually used a Wii before writing ther games, wii would not be faced with the POS tha is our limited choice. Several times we have gone out to buy games for a party or other excuse, and come back wiht dross because we felt obliged to buy *something*. Honestly, the Wii market is desperate for any new game that is playable.
I remain in home of a multi-player World Mapouka Championship, but I am not hlding my breath. (It it was released, I might end up holding some other part of my anatomy:-)
And when all of the botnet operators are in Eastern Europe and China, then what?
Tell the credit card companies (American, all of them) that if anyone pays for an item advertised by spam using thier card, they are toast.
The credit card companies totally control what their merchants sell, how they sell it, etc. and could stop spam on 30 seconds if the US authorities went after them. Unfortunately they probably own the US government.
In simple terms spam is there, because the US gvernment wont stop it
If they are your priorities, maybe you should consider Linux after all - apps are free, and bugs are fixed, and as for support, when have you ever got MS to fix a bug? I have had almost all the bugs I have ever reported in KDE and OpenOffice fixed (or a reply explaining why not).
The same is true of other OpenSOurce software: Oracle may fix bugs if you pay them $30,000 a month Postgresql added the features I requested as well.
That's assuming that the police are drooling morons that have no clue what they're doing.
That would explain most of their behaviour. Racism explains most of the rest.
In the UK in the last 10 years, terrorists have killed about 100 people, including themselves. The police have killed about 1,000 people (in car crashes, shooting incidents, or death in custardy) - it is important not to be mistaken for a carpenter or electician in London - and none of them has been convicted of any crime.
Try to show a black CLI to your mom (non geek I hope)
My Mum was Fortran programmer, you insensitive clod!
Never forget some people have been using computers since the 1950's, when computing was women's work, because it was boring.
My Mum uses Mac and PC, and definitely prefers the Mac. Not sure she (or anyone else) would want EBCDIC and IBJOB on her Personal computer, but CLI
can be useful.
Anyone know where i can get a USB 80-column card reader which supports IBM 026 punch code? (029 code is for wusses)
I just bought a Fujitsu-Siemens P4, and replaced the 40GHD with a 400G HD. Obviously an OS install was required. (Yes, I have an OEM FS recovery fdisk from my former FS desktop, now dead, and yes it was a slightly different model). The only way to install the correct Windows NIC drivers is to run a desktop application, which fetches them over the Internet (of course, it cant cos with no NIC drivers, yer cant download nout!).
Ubuntu installed in under 40 mins, including applying all security fixes, and was able to access pron^h^h^h^h Youtube with no grief. After installing about 40 apps, it asked for a reboot for some reason. I went to bed and started it the next day.
Eventually I got the NIC drivers by fowl means (Yeah, someone e-mailed me a chicken with the drivers on an SD card clipped to its leg), and was able to get Windows running. Approx two days and 33 1/3 boots later, the urgent updates were complete, and it was ready for use, apart from the limited range of apps (Windows Paint is not all that useful). I asked not to install IE8, but it sneakily tricked me into installing it as a "necessary update" anyway.
Default boot is going to be Ubuntu for now! If i get any of that "Windows Genuine Disadvantage" crap, then I will reclaim the disk space and use it as a dedicated partition for something. Windows is just annoying the hell out of users for no benefit.
Initial letters of all sentences would be converted to the background colour - so they are still there, but you can't actually see them,
and any tables present would have their formatting rearranged
in a random manner?
No - for a couple of years, the risk of acetyline cylinders has been routinely exaggerated, and precautionarly measured so wildly excessive (Like shutting down several blocks - "because there MIGHT be acetyline in the shed"), that people in in London have been wondering what the real story was..
now we know - the LFB had paid loads of money for fancy hardware, and needed to justify it! We had thought they were planning a ban on acetyline, or more likely some kind of ""safety" tax (they probably still plan that to pay for the robots).
Slashdot Mirror
If you need to ask, you would not understand the answer :-)
There, thats fixed it for you.
So will I, but dont expect delivery before the 2012 Olympics. It is currently in the vapour phase.
Its obvious to everyone else: Because the CEO of the merged company gets more lining in his pockets, and the customers get a worse negotiation position.
Capitalism? No, thats football!
The grandfather who made these remarks made radios himself - famously demonstrating one to a gardener who remarked "That's music, innit?" on hearing classical music from this strange piece of kit. No other kids on the block had radios.
He was also an RAF pilot in the first world war - and lived to tell the tale! By "sheduled flights across europe", he meant, and probably said more explicity (this quote was from 1962), "in many different countries in Europe", and not between countries, or may have said "internationally", as in Englant to France (under 100 miles). Even in the 1960's, when my grandmother went to Liberia, she went by ship, not plane.
The underlying point was that human perception affects things in quite deep and subtle ways, and that over life-time scale, subjective judgements are very unreliable. I think that has been demonstrated quite well in this thread.
By 1914, we had sheduled international flights all across Europe and cheap Ford cars, phones, BBC radio, etc".
He observed that besides the technology content of the changes, there was a significant psychological factor:
By 1914, 1898 was "the last century" - he went on to predict that by 2014, 1998 would be "the last millenium" and things would seem even more old-fashioned. Of course we cannot know the future, but we also cannot know what is currently being developed behind closed doors. Invention is never at a steady pace - and many inventions may come in a single year after five years of no excitement.
Despite that, there might be a problem:
All current computers are just re-implementations of the PDP11 archictecture with minor improvements.
The iPhone is just a smaller version of the Memex predicted by Vannevar Bush
Necessity is the mother of all Frank Zappas. Maybe we don't actually need any more stuff! We need the stuff we have to work better! There is enough food, housing and porn to go round! The main thing we really do need is a better system of government.
World Mapouka Championship
It may be that Nintendo do not supply guidelines in writing, but if the develoeprs had actually used a Wii before writing ther games, wii would not be faced with the POS tha is our limited choice. Several times we have gone out to buy games for a party or other excuse, and come back wiht dross because we felt obliged to buy *something*. Honestly, the Wii market is desperate for any new game that is playable.
I remain in home of a multi-player World Mapouka Championship, but I am not hlding my breath. (It it was released, I might end up holding some other part of my anatomy :-)
Well, If it runs OpenBSD, I for one welcome our new, secure, Sun overlords!
Tell the credit card companies (American, all of them) that if anyone pays for an item advertised by spam using thier card, they are toast.
The credit card companies totally control what their merchants sell, how they sell it, etc. and could stop spam on 30 seconds if the US authorities went after them. Unfortunately they probably own the US government.
In simple terms spam is there, because the US gvernment wont stop it
The entire country lives in a virtual world of its own,
Most of it is dirt-poor and breeding rapidly,
There are countless armed, military robots, all programmed by the lowest bidder,
Cellphone service providers rool
And there is the rest of the world where
we can watch America by tuning in to Friends, Ugly Betty and Miami Vice (and America's dumbest Criminals)
The rich pay towards the cost of healthcare for the poor, to reduce the risk of getting diseased themselves
People are cheaper than robots
Cellphones can recieve calls for free
Now I have lost an arm and a leg, and my weight has fallen drastically ...
Can I have anchovies with umlaut on my pizza please?
If they are your priorities, maybe you should consider Linux after all - apps are free, and bugs are fixed, and as for support, when have you ever got MS to fix a bug? I have had almost all the bugs I have ever reported in KDE and OpenOffice fixed (or a reply explaining why not).
The same is true of other OpenSOurce software: Oracle may fix bugs if you pay them $30,000 a month Postgresql added the features I requested as well.
For /. shills, that is: Only a caveman would want to do it
That would explain most of their behaviour. Racism explains most of the rest.
In the UK in the last 10 years, terrorists have killed about 100 people, including themselves. The police have killed about 1,000 people (in car crashes, shooting incidents, or death in custardy) - it is important not to be mistaken for a carpenter or electician in London - and none of them has been convicted of any crime.
Who you gonna fear?
It helps if you do not use a domain name that ends in ".ng"
Just read /. - an education in itself!
User error - strike user to continue!
My Mum was Fortran programmer, you insensitive clod!
Never forget some people have been using computers since the 1950's, when computing was women's work, because it was boring.
My Mum uses Mac and PC, and definitely prefers the Mac. Not sure she (or anyone else) would want EBCDIC and IBJOB on her Personal computer, but CLI can be useful.
Anyone know where i can get a USB 80-column card reader which supports IBM 026 punch code? (029 code is for wusses)
Ubuntu installed in under 40 mins, including applying all security fixes, and was able to access pron^h^h^h^h Youtube with no grief. After installing about 40 apps, it asked for a reboot for some reason. I went to bed and started it the next day.
Eventually I got the NIC drivers by fowl means (Yeah, someone e-mailed me a chicken with the drivers on an SD card clipped to its leg), and was able to get Windows running. Approx two days and 33 1/3 boots later, the urgent updates were complete, and it was ready for use, apart from the limited range of apps (Windows Paint is not all that useful). I asked not to install IE8, but it sneakily tricked me into installing it as a "necessary update" anyway.
Default boot is going to be Ubuntu for now! If i get any of that "Windows Genuine Disadvantage" crap, then I will reclaim the disk space and use it as a dedicated partition for something. Windows is just annoying the hell out of users for no benefit.
Initial letters of all sentences would be converted to the background colour - so they are still there, but you can't actually see them, and any tables present would have their formatting rearranged in a random manner?
How about elderly Chinese women cockle pickers using Kung Fu on thieving Rumanian gypsy children?
now we know - the LFB had paid loads of money for fancy hardware, and needed to justify it! We had thought they were planning a ban on acetyline, or more likely some kind of ""safety" tax (they probably still plan that to pay for the robots).