Dont know what country you are in, but I get the impression that here in the UK (well, London anyway) that most men like women to be size 14-16 (UK sizes, obviously, not American) and think the media are dominated by piss-artists who have no clue.
A quick look at porn (highly recommended - its for research purposes, obviously) will show the women are mostly a lot bigger than they are on the fashion catwalk.
and 500 years is a drop in the evolutionary bucket.
Let me rephrase that: 10 generations of trees.
10 generations? lots of trees live longer than 200 years, so 3 generations is just as probable.
There are trees known to be 500 years old in some countries.
Well I remember SCSI-1, cos I implemented lots of hardware and software for it!
It was compatible - well some subset of the operation was vaguely compatible with some other subsets of some competitors product. Apart from that, it had enhanced performance Yay, better than compatible!
DVDs have tons of error correction and are designed to take a certain amount of abuse. clearly not including using them in a car. Most dont seem to last long enough play in my car a second time!
Can you play 78RPM records? Any vinyl records at all?
I have several home movies on Super-8
And My Dad's memoires are all on Amstrad's 3" floppies (not 3.5")
Our last Philips Cassette player died last year - even they are very hard to find!
20 years is not very long in family history terms. Stuff the requiremnts for corporate records and health-and-safety info on where the dangerous chemicals leaked.
openBSD EOL's it's releases so quickly, that only in the very rare instance that a business is willing to pay through the nose for inhouse support will you be able to see your system patched.
In house support is our only option. Cost or no cost. As someone who manages OpenBSD servers for OLTP (ie processing MONEY, live on the real Internet), Its security wot counts. Features, you ask? When you dont care if you are losing $5,000,000 a minute, then you can care about features. Meanwhile, I care about security and reliability, and I care about typical uptimes of a year. I buy the hardware that IS compatible (I use only SUN Sparc64 kit)
Upgrade? you are kidding? We build a new set of servers, install the new versions of the apps, test them for several months, including actual disaster recovery, and then deploy them. OBSD may have had a new release before the system even gets deployed, as we have to test the new iteration of our application layer over the firewall/webserver/database server three tier architecture.
Official EOL is not a problem - we phase in the replacement in line with the scheduled date. If we are late, well, no patches will be supplied. Were there have been any anyway? Would we have time to test them?
Weekly patch cycle, eh? not in my world, matey!
Putting "mr" in a word can lead to pronunciation difficulties,
For who? Think of it as mem'ristor. There how hard is that? It is true that
the pronouciation of the letter "r" is quite different in Sierra Leone and
Japan, but its hardly a major problem, and the presence of the "m" in front of
it isnt a problem for anyone I know.
The idea that the devices are a "major breakthrough" is a problem though - how
do these differ from any amount of other devices producing "negative resistance" through phase change?
As other have pointed out, its slow and awkward to use,
A viable memristor based FPGA might be interesting, and more practical than other memory applications I guess.
Probably more patentable than chocolate-chip-cookies as well (but not a lot - it is clearly obvious
to those "sufficiently skilled in the art" ie me.)
My blackberry came with a dreadful GPS app that was worse than useless. I replaced it with TeleNav, which is is fantastic at avoiding congestion, and works very well. It has got me out of numerous predicaments - but its a Blackberry - the screen is tiny compared to my double-DIN Kenwood/Garmin in my X-trail. Neither handles towing a caravan (more than 7 foot wide and 6 foot high, so need to avoid various obstructions.
You obviously don't have to do deliveries in central London, and probably never go on holiday in Europe.
Are you sill living in your parents' basement?
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Was the interface between the modem and the teletype some sort of analog -- like a rotary dial telephone or something?
Yes - the excact same mecahnism, actually: It was a current-loop - if current flowed it was a 0, if it stopped, it was a 1! (In some cases, it was +/- current, and in other cases it was 15mA for 1 and 4mA for 0. There were probably several other "standards" as well.)
Who the fuck has their phone run over by an elephant so often that he feels the need to have a fool proof solution for it? Or even have it run over by a car, buried in mud or roasted in a fucking oven?
Here in the UK, some of us have to work for a living.
If you could disrupt even 2.5% of our economy through a cyber-attack, thats one billion dollars per day in lost production.
Here in the UK we lose a good deal more than 2.5% of our productivity through having to comply with pointless beaurocratic nonsense. The government's main response is to to add an extra layer of beaurocracy to everything.
The real cyber-security problem at the moment is the unwillingness of government to do anything at all about spam. Hell, if they can't arrest and incarcerate even the biggest and most blatent spammers, what the hell can they do about the single, lone script-kiddie who could bring down the world through a miss-placed semicolon?
Ever sang happy birthday in a "public venue?" I think you will find the copyright on Happy Birthday expired some time ago. At least in most of the world, if not America.
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Hold it right there, cowboy ... You elected Reagan and at least one of the two Bushes?
Dont know what country you are in, but I get the impression that here in the UK (well, London anyway) that most men like women to be size 14-16 (UK sizes, obviously, not American) and think the media are dominated by piss-artists who have no clue.
A quick look at porn (highly recommended - its for research purposes, obviously) will show the women are mostly a lot bigger than they are on the fashion catwalk.
The warning should be: browser-name does not know if this site is the genuine one.
Click here if YOU KNOW it is the real thing
Click here if it might be a FAKE.
THINK BEFORE YOU CLICK. If in doubt ask someone (or use another browser)
The "think before you click" bit should be in bold and pillar-box red.
That, sir is The American Dream
- dream on...
Let me rephrase that: 10 generations of trees.
10 generations? lots of trees live longer than 200 years, so 3 generations is just as probable. There are trees known to be 500 years old in some countries.
It was compatible - well some subset of the operation was vaguely compatible with some other subsets of some competitors product. Apart from that, it had enhanced performance Yay, better than compatible!
Be very careful: In the UK, you can be arrested for knowing where to buy the book
DVDs have tons of error correction and are designed to take a certain amount of abuse. clearly not including using them in a car. Most dont seem to last long enough play in my car a second time!
I have 8 floppy drives on my desk if you want to make a long term investment!
Can you play 78RPM records? Any vinyl records at all?
I have several home movies on Super-8
And My Dad's memoires are all on Amstrad's 3" floppies (not 3.5")
Our last Philips Cassette player died last year - even they are very hard to find!
20 years is not very long in family history terms. Stuff the requiremnts for corporate records and health-and-safety info on where the dangerous chemicals leaked.
The most reliable estimate to date is
(remaining life of BSD) = (expected total life of Microsoft) * 2 years.
In house support is our only option. Cost or no cost. As someone who manages OpenBSD servers for OLTP (ie processing MONEY, live on the real Internet), Its security wot counts. Features, you ask? When you dont care if you are losing $5,000,000 a minute, then you can care about features. Meanwhile, I care about security and reliability, and I care about typical uptimes of a year. I buy the hardware that IS compatible (I use only SUN Sparc64 kit)
Upgrade? you are kidding? We build a new set of servers, install the new versions of the apps, test them for several months, including actual disaster recovery, and then deploy them. OBSD may have had a new release before the system even gets deployed, as we have to test the new iteration of our application layer over the firewall/webserver/database server three tier architecture.
Official EOL is not a problem - we phase in the replacement in line with the scheduled date. If we are late, well, no patches will be supplied. Were there have been any anyway? Would we have time to test them? Weekly patch cycle, eh? not in my world, matey!
Attempting to hack into Microsoft's corporate intranet and create documentation for Windows. There, thats fixed it for you.
I am shocked, shocked! (I drive a Nissan, and use FreeBSD on my desktop)
For who? Think of it as mem'ristor. There how hard is that? It is true that the pronouciation of the letter "r" is quite different in Sierra Leone and Japan, but its hardly a major problem, and the presence of the "m" in front of it isnt a problem for anyone I know.
The idea that the devices are a "major breakthrough" is a problem though - how do these differ from any amount of other devices producing "negative resistance" through phase change? As other have pointed out, its slow and awkward to use,
A viable memristor based FPGA might be interesting, and more practical than other memory applications I guess. Probably more patentable than chocolate-chip-cookies as well (but not a lot - it is clearly obvious to those "sufficiently skilled in the art" ie me.)
My blackberry came with a dreadful GPS app that was worse than useless. I replaced it with TeleNav, which is is fantastic at avoiding congestion, and works very well. It has got me out of numerous predicaments - but its a Blackberry - the screen is tiny compared to my double-DIN Kenwood/Garmin in my X-trail. Neither handles towing a caravan (more than 7 foot wide and 6 foot high, so need to avoid various obstructions.
Are you sill living in your parents' basement?
Yes - the excact same mecahnism, actually: It was a current-loop - if current flowed it was a 0, if it stopped, it was a 1! (In some cases, it was +/- current, and in other cases it was 15mA for 1 and 4mA for 0. There were probably several other "standards" as well.)
two criteria:
a) If made by Norton, Symantec, or is sold at PC World, I wouldn't touch it with a barge-pole.
b) If it costs money, I won't touch it with a barge-pole.
c) It I install it, and it sucks, it goes out.
I have a large stock of unused barge-poles, please see my e-bay shop.
30 years ago it was a very poor ripoff of the PDP11, which was already nearly 10 years old, and the biggest thing in computing.
Now, every knucklehead has a computer and knows how to install malware
There, thats fixed it for you!.
Here in the UK, some of us have to work for a living.
Most of the stuff could be secured by ditching windows and replacing it with free software.
This _is_ /. - remember?
Here in the UK we lose a good deal more than 2.5% of our productivity through having to comply with pointless beaurocratic nonsense. The government's main response is to to add an extra layer of beaurocracy to everything.
The real cyber-security problem at the moment is the unwillingness of government to do anything at all about spam. Hell, if they can't arrest and incarcerate even the biggest and most blatent spammers, what the hell can they do about the single, lone script-kiddie who could bring down the world through a miss-placed semicolon?
Ever sang happy birthday in a "public venue?" I think you will find the copyright on Happy Birthday expired some time ago. At least in most of the world, if not America.