Here in the UK, my emplyers have just gone bust again. I am back driving trucks. (Its less stressful driving a 26 ton truck for £15ph than being on a real-time-embedded project for £30ph)
There are loads of IT jobs advertised, but they dont want to hire anyone over 50 (30?)in case they have experience and can spot the reason why the project will shortly go off the rails.
Currently t-mobile is the only UK operator that lets you use 3G to access the internet anyway. All the other operators just give you "walled garden" access to the web. They don't realise that internet != www.
If you want to use putty to access your servers, then the choice is already down to t-mobile or tough.
You mean someone actually makes phones that don't do this. This is not just obvious, I would sack an engineer working for me that failed to design this in. We were doing this with pagers in the 1980's.
I think a few USPTO people should go to Guano bay for not doing their duty.
NVidia may have released FreeBSD/i386 drivers, but has anyone actually got the damned things to work?
What the hell use are drivers that don't actually work?
I dont give a stuff if the drivers are binary closed source, if they work. However, in my experience, nether ATI nor NVidia can write drivers to save their lives. Hell the ATI ones can't even manage text mode properly on FreeBSD/UltraSparc. The NVidia ones wont even load on FreeBSD/I386 with xorg 7.2.
I get better performance from a five year old 4MB S3 card, because it doesn't need half baked closed source crap. Its not about dogma, its about bloody working software!
Even drunken students could write better software on friday night than these idiots are pretending is a saleable product.
In that case, Id liken having an NVidia card to having a death in the family. SInce I instaleld a NVIdia, having become exceedingly fed up with ATI, I have not been able to boot my FreeBSD machine into X even once.
All of these people are scum, and I really dont care if some are more scummy than others.
I want support for Sun supplied ATI Rage on UltraSparc in FreeBSD NOW!!!!
We in England have never had the right to bear arms, nor the right to arm bears.
Furthermore, not one British citizen on 10,000 would want anyone to have such a right. the other
9,999 are 100% behind the full enforcement of 7 years jail for anyone posessing a weapon,
legally or otherwise. The American right to bear arms is seen as the reason why American deaths from gunshot wounds run at around 100 times the rate here, adjusted for population size.
In short, almost everyone in the UK sees weapons as the problem, and none see them as the solution.
A few criminals have guns, and probably a similar number of country dwellers have them, and
perhaps a few who shoot competitively as a sport, but carrying guns is not something many in the UK would consider. Those with a sound legal reason for carrying a gun have very little support here.
Our police dont normally carry guns, but have still managed to shoot more innocent people than guilty ones.
Each time a policeman is shot by a criminal, there is a clamour to arm the police, but I do not recall any incident where this would ahve prevented the policemen being shot. AFAIR 75% of American polise shot are shot with their own gun, or by a colleague.
How about a right to bare breasts? Now that really would be popular!
We are taught that we cannot use medical jargon to explain things to patients
No wonder we think doctors are a bunch of patronising a-holes.
You need to be taught to enquire as to the level of understanding of the patient. Its not impossible they know as much jargon as you - or at least a whole lot more Latin.
In my contact with the medical profession, it appears they tend to exaggerate their knowledge/understanding considerably, and use or otherwise of medical jargon is not the issue. (But I don't live in the USA).
Id love it if mine worked. I had FreeBSD working on it for about 3 years, and last month I did a cvsup and portupgrade of xorg. Since then, I have been stuck in comamnd line mode!
I will never buy anything from NVidia again unless they opensource their drivers, and I shall make damn sure that
everyone who shares the data centre knows why.
ATI Rage drivers for spark64 would be nice too, even if only in text mode!
The fact is, this closed source stuff completely sucks. Pay for it? Its not worth a fig!
the rail crossing was so poorly lit and poorly marked that she didn't know she was on train tracks
This is in England! She had to open a huge great gate paitend white with red markings, weighing nearly half a ton to get on the tracks. This style of gate gates appear nowhere in England except at level crossings. If she did not know that, then she had clearly never taken a driving test.
She is not only stupid, but also criminally insane.
However, the British newspapers have it in for GPS because their staff are too stupid to be able use it themselves.
However, OpenBSD is generally more suitable if you mean Sparc64 SUn kit. But be warned, owning to Solaris cronic lameness, once OpenBSD is installed on a hard disk, you cannot reinstall Solaris, cos the install crashes with no error message (Both Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris do this). Wiping the partition table does not resolve the problem, either. (On Sparc64 - I have not tried Solaris on i386). I believe ths bug was reported in 1992, which does not say much for their bug tracking process.
Furthermore, I have tried to report it but my login at the OpenSolaris web site is 9 chars long, and the login page only supports 8 char long IDs - I bet the whole of Solaris is infested with the concept that user IDs are only 8 chars!
Solaris has its good points, but you have to need them rather desperately to give up the advantages of OpenBSD on Sparc. Hell, if you don't mind whether your frame buffer works or not, you could be better off with FreeBSD than Solaris.
Sun sell great hardware, but their idea of software support does not hack it in the modern world.
Now Solaris is open source Sun need to put more into cooperating with the open source community over things like frame buffers.
that in 10 years time some ninety percent of current technology will be rendered useless.
Probably not. Any amount of people are still running home servers on Pentium Is. I myself am spending this bank holiday weekend migrating our family server from an AMD k6 450 MHz running FreeBSD to an UltraSparc 450MHz running OpenBSD.
Over Christmas we made two Pentium II workstations redundant, replacing them with new P4's. The P IIs are now on their way to Sierra Leone, where they will probably run for another ten years Most likely with pirate copies on Win2k, not supplied by me - I wiped the hard drives and supplied an Ubuntu install CD.
You obviously have no idea how far IE is from complying with anything documented, let alone standard. Notice that the bottom right of your computer screen often says "you have updates ready for installation" or something similar - each time this happens IE is broken in an entirely new and unpredictable manner, most likely requiring your site to be modified, despite the fact that it works fine on all other browsers, and passes w3c compliance testing.
However I agree that Firefox only is pretty stupid, as Firefox wont work on Symbian yet, and there are likely other platforms that it wont work on either. Probably including WinCE.
And no trendy, upcoming, rich Mobile users Hell no, we dont want those rich business users with Nokia E61s and Bilburries spending their ill gotten gains on our website, no siree! Its them hillbillies, peasants and yokels what put us where we are and we are going to stick them (may be they think that means "stick by" - I don't know!)
In the end most people would just say "fuck it" after a while and use another website
Indeed, I do this very thing three or four times a week. However, its more often that the website requires flash than because it requires IE.
In my books, flash is in the same league as being slapped in the face with a wet fish. I know some people dont see it that way, and want to spend their lives watching pointless moving pictures instead of getting on with life. If I want4ed to waste time, I'd be here, not watching a pointless piece of flash. (Thats Flash, not Flesh for those of you not paying attention.)
The fact that he was fined 500 pounds proves that this is about grabbing money from people
Yes, that is how the law operates in England - the government thinks up plausible offences, that large numbers of people can be fined for, and then imposes unreasonably large fines for them. Normally the target is motorists, because they are easy to trace.
Its called a "stealth tax" and its what Gordon Brown is there for.
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There are loads of IT jobs advertised, but they dont want to hire anyone over 50 (30?)in case they have experience and can spot the reason why the project will shortly go off the rails.
It sure looks like the dot.com bust 2.0 to me.
You are obviously not in the UK. Here the problem is that you do the work, send the bills, and still don't get paid!
If you want to use putty to access your servers, then the choice is already down to t-mobile or tough.
I think a few USPTO people should go to Guano bay for not doing their duty.
What the hell use are drivers that don't actually work?
I dont give a stuff if the drivers are binary closed source, if they work. However, in my experience, nether ATI nor NVidia can write drivers to save their lives. Hell the ATI ones can't even manage text mode properly on FreeBSD/UltraSparc. The NVidia ones wont even load on FreeBSD/I386 with xorg 7.2.
I get better performance from a five year old 4MB S3 card, because it doesn't need half baked closed source crap. Its not about dogma, its about bloody working software!
Even drunken students could write better software on friday night than these idiots are pretending is a saleable product.
All of these people are scum, and I really dont care if some are more scummy than others.
I want support for Sun supplied ATI Rage on UltraSparc in FreeBSD NOW!!!!
Furthermore, not one British citizen on 10,000 would want anyone to have such a right. the other 9,999 are 100% behind the full enforcement of 7 years jail for anyone posessing a weapon, legally or otherwise. The American right to bear arms is seen as the reason why American deaths from gunshot wounds run at around 100 times the rate here, adjusted for population size. In short, almost everyone in the UK sees weapons as the problem, and none see them as the solution.
A few criminals have guns, and probably a similar number of country dwellers have them, and perhaps a few who shoot competitively as a sport, but carrying guns is not something many in the UK would consider. Those with a sound legal reason for carrying a gun have very little support here.
Our police dont normally carry guns, but have still managed to shoot more innocent people than guilty ones. Each time a policeman is shot by a criminal, there is a clamour to arm the police, but I do not recall any incident where this would ahve prevented the policemen being shot. AFAIR 75% of American polise shot are shot with their own gun, or by a colleague.
How about a right to bare breasts? Now that really would be popular!
Next question
No wonder we think doctors are a bunch of patronising a-holes.
You need to be taught to enquire as to the level of understanding of the patient. Its not impossible they know as much jargon as you - or at least a whole lot more Latin.
In my contact with the medical profession, it appears they tend to exaggerate their knowledge/understanding considerably, and use or otherwise of medical jargon is not the issue. (But I don't live in the USA).
Or may be a first person shooter with the TAX man as a way of handling sales taxes.
Id love it if mine worked. I had FreeBSD working on it for about 3 years, and last month I did a cvsup and portupgrade of xorg. Since then, I have been stuck in comamnd line mode!
I will never buy anything from NVidia again unless they opensource their drivers, and I shall make damn sure that everyone who shares the data centre knows why.
ATI Rage drivers for spark64 would be nice too, even if only in text mode!
The fact is, this closed source stuff completely sucks. Pay for it? Its not worth a fig!
How about "fire cruise missiles!" (since France does not have Chuck Norris)
Mod parent up. Its just so cool...
She will probably grow up to be second in command of a huge sofware company :-)
This is in England! She had to open a huge great gate paitend white with red markings, weighing nearly half a ton to get on the tracks. This style of gate gates appear nowhere in England except at level crossings. If she did not know that, then she had clearly never taken a driving test.
She is not only stupid, but also criminally insane.
However, the British newspapers have it in for GPS because their staff are too stupid to be able use it themselves.
This idea was first proposed over 100 years ago. It sure isnt patentable directly. A means of actuation of the valves might be.
You might want to buy some used Sun kit on EBay and try it - you have a lot to learn!
Furthermore, I have tried to report it but my login at the OpenSolaris web site is 9 chars long, and the login page only supports 8 char long IDs - I bet the whole of Solaris is infested with the concept that user IDs are only 8 chars!
Solaris has its good points, but you have to need them rather desperately to give up the advantages of OpenBSD on Sparc. Hell, if you don't mind whether your frame buffer works or not, you could be better off with FreeBSD than Solaris.
Sun sell great hardware, but their idea of software support does not hack it in the modern world. Now Solaris is open source Sun need to put more into cooperating with the open source community over things like frame buffers.
Probably not. Any amount of people are still running home servers on Pentium Is. I myself am spending this bank holiday weekend migrating our family server from an AMD k6 450 MHz running FreeBSD to an UltraSparc 450MHz running OpenBSD.
Over Christmas we made two Pentium II workstations redundant, replacing them with new P4's. The P IIs are now on their way to Sierra Leone, where they will probably run for another ten years Most likely with pirate copies on Win2k, not supplied by me - I wiped the hard drives and supplied an Ubuntu install CD.
This new fangled technology is highly over rated.
You obviously have no idea how far IE is from complying with anything documented, let alone standard. Notice that the bottom right of your computer screen often says "you have updates ready for installation" or something similar - each time this happens IE is broken in an entirely new and unpredictable manner, most likely requiring your site to be modified, despite the fact that it works fine on all other browsers, and passes w3c compliance testing.
However I agree that Firefox only is pretty stupid, as Firefox wont work on Symbian yet, and there are likely other platforms that it wont work on either. Probably including WinCE.
You much did you get for your soul?
And no trendy, upcoming, rich Mobile users Hell no, we dont want those rich business users with Nokia E61s and Bilburries spending their ill gotten gains on our website, no siree! Its them hillbillies, peasants and yokels what put us where we are and we are going to stick them (may be they think that means "stick by" - I don't know!)
As you business plummets downhill backwards, remember this: the answer is You'll never know.
To ensure ongoing salary payments, you might wish to explain this to your boss now!
Indeed, I do this very thing three or four times a week. However, its more often that the website requires flash than because it requires IE.
In my books, flash is in the same league as being slapped in the face with a wet fish. I know some people dont see it that way, and want to spend their lives watching pointless moving pictures instead of getting on with life. If I want4ed to waste time, I'd be here, not watching a pointless piece of flash. (Thats Flash, not Flesh for those of you not paying attention.)
Yes, that is how the law operates in England - the government thinks up plausible offences, that large numbers of people can be fined for, and then imposes unreasonably large fines for them. Normally the target is motorists, because they are easy to trace.
Its called a "stealth tax" and its what Gordon Brown is there for.