I have a UK HGV licence, and you definitely would definitely fail your test (HGV or otherwise) if you roll back. I would imagine you would be charged with dangerous driving if you rolled back and hit a car with a truck here, even if no damage was caused.
GP is correct you would not feel it if you hit a BMW- you could probably crush it flat and not feel it - hence the need to not roll back.
This does not eliminate the need to stop suficciently far behind the vehicle in front that you can pull past it if the driver stalls (or runs out of fuel waiting at the lights - it happens!)
Given the issues of supporting SMP in multicore architectures, security, stability etc , I should have thought the answer was obvious - the successor to Windows is *BSD.
Like making video calls, playing MP3s, playing games?
Hell, My landline phone cant even remember its phonebook through a power cycle, and anyway the phone book is so un userfriendly, its never had more than one number in it.
I think both my mobiles already ahd supoer powers. My Nokia now even has "Frogger" - I am just waiting for "Lounge Suit Larry"
Correct... I am hiring someone for micro controller this week (UK, not Canada), and after looking through CVs, I consider people with six years experience to be relative novices, with only limited contact with many of the important issues.
To do micro controller work, you need to know EVERYTHING from how to create thread-safe stuff with no memory management to how to implement mathematical functions found in second/third year of a maths degree with UNSIGNED arithmetic. You need to know how hardware behaves when its faulty, and you need to know whether the compiler is faulty or the hardware, or your code is defective - and get it RIGHT.
And in most cases you probably need good client facing skills, the ability to work bizarre hours, and a willingness to put up with shitty conditions of employment.
The reward for all this is the chance to laugh at those better dressed and housed than you, in their posh cars with their trophy wives, knowing that its thanks to you their engine management system has left them stranded on the highway in a $60,000 car!
Tell that to the people in Norther Nigeria who are having major outbreaks of Polio right now. Hygene is not a big preocupation there. However, the local Immams persuaded people that vaccination was a plot by westerners to eradicate Muslims.
it is unlikely Adobe loses a sale if a 13 year old "software collector" downloads photoshop,
In fact, its almost a dead cert that they will make at least four sales as that 13 year old grows up with photoshop skills and teaches them to his peers, parents, and their peers. Sure more pirate copies will be used than legit ones, but there is only one reason why Windows is the most pupular OS, and that is that the sellers of competitive products (especially Unix) in the past have all demanded massive prices for their products, and obstructed piracy.
Piracy is free promotion - ask anyone jailed for Payola.
In the 1950s these were called "pentodes" (as in having five electrodes).
Yes I know they were thermionic and not solid state, but the physics is much the same.
Since there is a HUMUNGOUS mount of prior art and this is "OBVIOUS TO ALL SKILLED PRACTITIONERS IN THE ART" provided they are over the age of 50, I hope they have not been given a patent for this.
and you live here (Europe) you are already up the creak - we use E1s here! But in principle, I agree with you - if you are running a mssion critical service, you probably should not be relying on the network whose main aim in life is distributing spam and DOSing people. Perhaps you should purchase a suitable infrastructure.
Having a tax policy that guarantees children=poverty is society's way of supporting parents in most of Western Europe. I can't speak for Japan. The consequences are obvious. Only this very afternoon, I was asking what my mother thought was the solution to the pension problem - her reply "Let in loads of immigrants and let them fund the pensions off their income tax"
Our family used to use an AMD K6 for this (FreeBSD 4.x, Samba, etc). We have 4 laptops including 2 Macs, 3 windows desktops, and 2 i386 FBSD workstations, 2 Ultrasparc workstations, and... - yes, in our house! The NAS has run 24/7 since whenever 4.1 was released, non-stop (except when the HDs were upgraded). A couple of weeks ago, we upgraded to a Sun Ultra5 (still FreeBSD, but 6.1), Samba, etc). Wonderful - massively faster! No problems upgrading, and all for £40 worth of hardware from EBay.
But we used standard FBSD and stuff from the ports. No need for any special bundle. I can't see the point of this.
I would like a how-to for getting the Mac to work with both Samba and NFS. I had to call in a Mac Guru (my son). Its about the only time the FBSD Handbook has ever let me down.
I only hope the government will listen to that reasoning.
You obviously have not had any experience of the UK government. "Listening" and "reason" are not concepts governments in general are familiar with, and especially not the present UK government.
I wish to own up as having performed idiotic practices (With and without the help of Windows).
I have a PDA running WinCE, and I can only sync it with MS Active Sync if I am logged on as administrator. I really detest this. It would be so much better if each member of the family could sync their own PDA when logged in as themselves. However, Active Sync does not appear to support this. This machine has to be connected to the internet to update my WinCE apps. I suspect this makes Active Sync "goods not of merchandisable quality" in the terms of the UK "sale of Goods Act", and I am willing to participate in a class action against MS.
I only use the Windows computer for syncing my PDA. For everything else, I use FreeBSD.
All your corporate secrets can be sold on the internet to the highest bidder.
Of course, some businesses don't need security, and don't give a stuff about the security of their employees records. So they needn't worry about their corporate data being accessible to anyone with a packet sniffer and some open source decryption software. And anyway, the American government has probably already collected and leaked their secrets, and the UK government is probably passing a law at this very moment requiring all secrets everywhere to be held on a database in Novosibirsk (sp?) on a computer owned by hackers.ru (but with Tony Blair having your GPG key for safety).
Thinks... Maybe I should not mix the coffee with brandy)
You may laugh, but not far from me, a man was shot dead carrying a table leg because police mistook it for a shotgun, and this was ruled a "legitimate killing".
We also had a bunch of people guilty of air piracy (Hijacking a plane) being released because it would be a breach of their human rights to send them back to the country which they came from. - Of course they should not be sent back. They should be kept here so they can be hung from a yard-arm at noon - assuming the British Navy still has any sea-going vessels.
The Blair government is criminally insane. Its only in power because the alteratives are also criminally insane.
Since Linux object code runs on FreeBSD, this is unlikely to be true. In any case, anything that is OpenSource can be compiled for FreeBSD - although it might require a small about of programming skill for some aplications which are badly written (fail to comply with standards).
People still pay money for pron? Even with broadband?
There really must be something wrong with the RIAA's theory about piracy then, and the/. people must be right - video sales have slumped because the content is worthless!
Which suggests that neither format will go anywhere until content improves.
IMHO, MP3 has taught the consumer that content and media are separable, and the public will either buy what ever is cheapest, or hold out for dual format drives.
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GP is correct you would not feel it if you hit a BMW- you could probably crush it flat and not feel it - hence the need to not roll back.
This does not eliminate the need to stop suficciently far behind the vehicle in front that you can pull past it if the driver stalls (or runs out of fuel waiting at the lights - it happens!)
Given the issues of supporting SMP in multicore architectures, security, stability etc , I should have thought the answer was obvious - the successor to Windows is *BSD.
Hell, My landline phone cant even remember its phonebook through a power cycle, and anyway the phone book is so un userfriendly, its never had more than one number in it.
I think both my mobiles already ahd supoer powers. My Nokia now even has "Frogger" - I am just waiting for "Lounge Suit Larry"
a) Children learn, and
b) Alcohol make students drunk.
I know these were legitimate studies, but they were done some years ago (1980's), and are in need of independent confirmation.
To do micro controller work, you need to know EVERYTHING from how to create thread-safe stuff with no memory management to how to implement mathematical functions found in second/third year of a maths degree with UNSIGNED arithmetic. You need to know how hardware behaves when its faulty, and you need to know whether the compiler is faulty or the hardware, or your code is defective - and get it RIGHT.
And in most cases you probably need good client facing skills, the ability to work bizarre hours, and a willingness to put up with shitty conditions of employment.
The reward for all this is the chance to laugh at those better dressed and housed than you, in their posh cars with their trophy wives, knowing that its thanks to you their engine management system has left them stranded on the highway in a $60,000 car!
Tell that to the people in Norther Nigeria who are having major outbreaks of Polio right now. Hygene is not a big preocupation there. However, the local Immams persuaded people that vaccination was a plot by westerners to eradicate Muslims.
In fact, its almost a dead cert that they will make at least four sales as that 13 year old grows up with photoshop skills and teaches them to his peers, parents, and their peers. Sure more pirate copies will be used than legit ones, but there is only one reason why Windows is the most pupular OS, and that is that the sellers of competitive products (especially Unix) in the past have all demanded massive prices for their products, and obstructed piracy.
Piracy is free promotion - ask anyone jailed for Payola.
Nope - a quick review of the street outside, and I can confidently say that for humans the law is more accurately spelled: "survival of the fattest!"
Yes I know they were thermionic and not solid state, but the physics is much the same.
Since there is a HUMUNGOUS mount of prior art and this is "OBVIOUS TO ALL SKILLED PRACTITIONERS IN THE ART" provided they are over the age of 50, I hope they have not been given a patent for this.
and you live here (Europe) you are already up the creak - we use E1s here! But in principle, I agree with you - if you are running a mssion critical service, you probably should not be relying on the network whose main aim in life is distributing spam and DOSing people. Perhaps you should purchase a suitable infrastructure.
If an emergency service depends on VoIP, someone needs to be sacked NOW! Dont wait for the service to fail ... failure is certain.
At least it will create work for all those redundant pot noodle miners.
Does anyone seriously doubt this? The evidence on /. is overwhelming. Even the Enquirer agrees! The Sunday Sprot even has photographic evidence!
Having a tax policy that guarantees children=poverty is society's way of supporting parents in most of Western Europe. I can't speak for Japan. The consequences are obvious. Only this very afternoon, I was asking what my mother thought was the solution to the pension problem - her reply "Let in loads of immigrants and let them fund the pensions off their income tax"
Can you say ...
But we used standard FBSD and stuff from the ports. No need for any special bundle. I can't see the point of this.
I would like a how-to for getting the Mac to work with both Samba and NFS. I had to call in a Mac Guru (my son). Its about the only time the FBSD Handbook has ever let me down.
You obviously have not had any experience of the UK government. "Listening" and "reason" are not concepts governments in general are familiar with, and especially not the present UK government.
I have a PDA running WinCE, and I can only sync it with MS Active Sync if I am logged on as administrator. I really detest this. It would be so much better if each member of the family could sync their own PDA when logged in as themselves. However, Active Sync does not appear to support this. This machine has to be connected to the internet to update my WinCE apps. I suspect this makes Active Sync "goods not of merchandisable quality" in the terms of the UK "sale of Goods Act", and I am willing to participate in a class action against MS.
I only use the Windows computer for syncing my PDA. For everything else, I use FreeBSD.
All your corporate secrets can be sold on the internet to the highest bidder.
Of course, some businesses don't need security, and don't give a stuff about the security of their employees records. So they needn't worry about their corporate data being accessible to anyone with a packet sniffer and some open source decryption software. And anyway, the American government has probably already collected and leaked their secrets, and the UK government is probably passing a law at this very moment requiring all secrets everywhere to be held on a database in Novosibirsk (sp?) on a computer owned by hackers.ru (but with Tony Blair having your GPG key for safety).
Thinks... Maybe I should not mix the coffee with brandy)
Linux? I want FreeBSD on my Niagra!
We also had a bunch of people guilty of air piracy (Hijacking a plane) being released because it would be a breach of their human rights to send them back to the country which they came from. - Of course they should not be sent back. They should be kept here so they can be hung from a yard-arm at noon - assuming the British Navy still has any sea-going vessels.
The Blair government is criminally insane. Its only in power because the alteratives are also criminally insane.
Since Linux object code runs on FreeBSD, this is unlikely to be true. In any case, anything that is OpenSource can be compiled for FreeBSD - although it might require a small about of programming skill for some aplications which are badly written (fail to comply with standards).
Its about four years since I last had FBSD fail to detect any hardware. Its on version 6.1. If youre still using 3.7 you might try an upgrade.
Is the climate in North Dakota like the climate on Mars? Interested foreigners want to know!
There really must be something wrong with the RIAA's theory about piracy then, and the /. people must be right - video sales have slumped because the content is worthless!
Which suggests that neither format will go anywhere until content improves.
IMHO, MP3 has taught the consumer that content and media are separable, and the public will either buy what ever is cheapest, or hold out for dual format drives.