When Levi Strauss targetted UK supermarket chains that were parallel importing jeans, they won. Their argument was that Levi Strauss's European arm was paying to market the jeans in Europe and that the supermarket was benefiting from the marketing that the official importer was doing. Each country's Levi subsidiary did its own marketingUnfortunately the EU court agreed so parallel imports from outside are not permitted. Within the EU, they are because of the legistlation on the freedom of movement of goods, i.e., its legal for a UK person to import stuff from another EU country.
This sounds like not such a big thing, but Poland, the Czech republic and Hungary are joining the EU in summer. Goods are still priced lower for these markets.
Forget acxademia, you must remember that politics is about real things. Greenbacks in particular.
A real solution would be to put the various central government jobs, congresscritter, senator up to president on eBay and auction them off. eBay is reasonably secure and at least we are taking a fair view of the political system. The money raised goes towards the next year's budget.
Most non-technical articles I have read about the SCO affair seem to emphasise his Mormon connection and making big of the "Hard-working and Independence" traditions. As this seems to be a regular part of the articles, I doubt this is a coincidence, and he may be trying to play the religious angle.
In oour case, the attack was an assassination attempt on the president and some of the major institutions. In retrospect it was possibly an early al Quada action as the bombs were coordinated across 3 locations in Tashkent. The location we passed was the worst with about 40 killed. We were just collateral damage though as the real attempt was on a president who was attending a CabMin meeting. The president had his revenge though during the resulting cleanup and some opposition members were apparently boiled alive to get information (literally).
Shooting was one thing we normally didn't have to worry about. Even the mafia there didn't normally use guns.
I can beat that. We were car-bombed. Something ilke three times. My car was far enough away so we had no damage. A couple of cars behind us, thery were all killed.
After that, what do you do, go back to the hotel. Sorry, it was also bombed. The web ref for the details is here amongst other places. Oh thats ignoring the usual problems like dysentary and so on. Btw, this is one of Bushes 'friendly' countries.
Going to a meeting from another, passed an intersection and then bang. I think around a couple of dozen killed or so including a car a few minutes behind us with the driver of a friend of mine. This was bad!
is probably one of the main reasons why the GIMP will be successfull. Many vendors ship photo editors with their cameras. Of course, they are windows only and rather limited in functionality. More and more people are therefore looking for alternatives. For this, the GIMP works well.
It isn't about to swat Photoshop, but it will come from behind. As open source, it is intrinsically more versatile and will end up overtaking Photoshop. Eventually.
Congratulations on learning to drive there. I don't mind busy, twisty little streets, the UK and Ireland have their share of those, but the Peripherie and parking are not my favourites in Paris. I tended to cheat, leaving my car on the outskirts and then use the metro.
Much as I appreceate Joelene Balock's chest, I would just like a tad more acting.
Amazingly Galaxy Quest showed that something different could be done and done well. However their actors weren't exactly bad either. Having Sigourney Weaver play "the girl with a chest" was great. Alan Rickman with Nimoy's "I'm not Spock"Angst, Tim Allen out-Shatnering Shatner.
It was funny and of course, it couldn't work without TOS and the TOS actors. Actually, I guess thats what drew me to Farscape to, intelligent sci-fi but with drama and oddball humour. The only really quirky character we have in Enterprise is the doctor.
Yep, the atmosphere did a pretty good job on Columbia. Large bits of equipment (and bodyparts) rained down and luckily didn't hit anyone although there was some damage to property.
Mir impacted too. I believe Skylab was too, but in both cases, the de-orbit was planned.
Hubble contains a large mirror and mount (made of titanium with a nice high melting point). It will definitely make a bonk when it hits the earth. The 1 in 700 estimate of harm is from NASA and was used to justify the end-of-life mission. Which is now cancelled. The chance seems small, but this is an involuntary risk as opposed to a voluntary one like riding in a car or travelling in a plane.
Forget the science for a moment, even though Hubble is unique and it hasn't had time yet to collect sufficient data and that there will be a gap before the Webb telescope flies. Hubble is heavy. It is so heavy that when it falls, large chunnks of it will not burn up. It is reckoned by NASA that there is a 1 in 700 chance of it injuring or killing a person when it impacts. The original plan called for a strap-on module to ensure a controlled deorbit or propulsion to a level where it will not decay quickly.
If this came from O'Keefe, cringe. He is a bean counter not an engineer. Remember him confidently announcing that falling foam was not an issue!!!
as part of their advertising. They show a long line of people going through a security check to wait in a departure lounge for everyone else and then just someone stepping onto a train. With trains travelling at 250Km/Hr and above, travel from one direct from one city centre to another and the lack of invasive security - the railways have got a major selling point.
There are various discount cards that allow the railway company to data mine, but you can still buy a ticket for cash and nobody raises an eyebrow.
The thing is with VMS is that search-lists as they are called are recursive. They to may contain logicals and other search lists. A logical may also replace a device, a directory, a filename or a file extension in that order. For example, logicals could look like:
DISK01$:[USERS.SMITH]filename.ext
The logical could be defined for DISK01$: (which happens to be a logical assigned at mount time) DISK01$:[USERS], DISK01$:[USERS.SMITH] and so on. Very flexible although the filesystem should loose the device reference to be more Unix like.
What I liked about the DLM is that it is fast and multipurpose. Plenty of clusters implement resource managers but few are so versatile.
To give an example of a use for the DLM, is that I mentioned the value block. With this it is simple to implement a cluster wide transaction counter. I create a lock in exclusive mode and set the value block up with my transaction number. Each time I want to increment it, I grab the lock and increment the transaction number and then release it. The code becomes simple.
The other feature, much used by the file processor (XQP) is that the locks are asynchronous. You may have optionally have a call-back when a lock is grabbed or when you are blocking someone. The call back is an AST and may interrupt the mainline code at that access level. ASTs are also used throughout the system for I/O, process control and other activities. On macines without ASTs they can be implemented via threads and synchronization objects.
Other approaches tend to implement part of this, but not all, i.e., non-asynch or no value block or no resource tree.
The lesson from Unix is to make the locks visible under/proc using their resource names. Under VMS, binary information could be encoded into the resource name such as a record number.
IBM have implemented a partial distributed lock manager system for Linux in developerworks. However you also need good cluster wide communications. VMS tended to have drivers for various cluster wide communications varying from LANs (using multicast protocols) through to specialised buses.
Bochs is slow. Very slow. The Bochs/Plex86 combo doesn't seem to be out there yet. As for other VMs, my goal was to be able to host UML on a straight 2K/XP Pro system without having any special stuff between the Win kernel and the metal. VMware does some special stuff to support a VM under its host.
One of the features integral to VMS is the distributed lock manager. It can work on a single machine or across a cluster and quite transparently.
Resources are represented in a tree form and you may only lock something if you have a compatible lock higher up the tree. The lock-modes are something like: NULL, Shared Read, Shared Write, Protected Read, Protected Write and Exclusive. Certain modes are defined as being compatible with other modes, i.e., protected write with shared read. The resource tree means that you can only lock a record for write if you have the file open for write. If you can't get a lock, you get forced to wait. However, you can implement code so the current lock holder is imformed there is a waiter so the holder can choose to release the locks.
Another neat thing is that anyone getting access to a lock can receive an attribute block which can contain arbitrary information. This block can be updated by any system with protected write or exclusive lock levels and is instantly relayed to other processes, whichever node on a cluster that they reside.
Of course, the lock system has access levels, so a user can't mess with system held locks.
It really gets fun though because the lock manager doesn't give a damn about what the resources refer to, so you can use it for all kinds of things.
VMS CLI symbols are the equivalent to Unix environment variables. Logicals are much more interesting, they are normally at process level, job level (process group) then group and system. Logical names also have access levels ranging from user mode through to kernel mode. Code running in kernel mode should never look at user mode logicals (unless on behalf of that user), so logicals are quite secure.
What is really cute is the interplay between the file system, RMS and logicals. This means that I can define a directory as follows:
DEFINE SRC USER,PROJECT,RELEASE
Whenever I access something via SRC:, it will pick the first occurrence out of the USER then PROJECT and finally RELEASE. This means that if the code was untouched, then it stays in RELEASE, if there is a project wide mod, then it can be in PROJECT and my personal copy under user.
Simply by changing the definition of SRC, I can switch to the project directory (ignoring my changes) or the release directory. This needs no supporting code in the programs. Effectively this is a bit like having a PATH for everything. Project management then becomes a doddle.
No liquid but a fluid, i.e. a gas, either air or the SO2/superheated steam mix that comes out of a volcano. This is not the same as piling a powder up until it becomes unstable.
Pyroclastic flows are like an avalanche and require a fluid to lubricate the solid. This is typically air or a gas. A pyroclastic flow, if anything most resembles an avalanche, albeit, a very hot one.
A small graphic shop that I know of has Photoshop. They have just four screens but they have real problems keeping up to date because the upgrades are so damned expensive.
Sure, they could put the proceeds from the next job towards upgrade licenses, but shouldn't they also eat? Add on the cost of some of the other packages thhey should have like Quark, and there isn't a lot of spare cash going around. The market is extremely competitive at the moment and software licenses aren't the top item on anyone's shopping list.
Of coourse, the main thing that keeps the Geosynchronous satellites warm is all those on-board electronics which work 24hrs. Spirit sort of sleeps overnight, I don't even know how much of it is left powered up. The rover is also a lot smaller, hence the RHU (that is why I missed it, I had searched for RTG).
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This sounds like not such a big thing, but Poland, the Czech republic and Hungary are joining the EU in summer. Goods are still priced lower for these markets.
A real solution would be to put the various central government jobs, congresscritter, senator up to president on eBay and auction them off. eBay is reasonably secure and at least we are taking a fair view of the political system. The money raised goes towards the next year's budget.
Most non-technical articles I have read about the SCO affair seem to emphasise his Mormon connection and making big of the "Hard-working and Independence" traditions. As this seems to be a regular part of the articles, I doubt this is a coincidence, and he may be trying to play the religious angle.
Shooting was one thing we normally didn't have to worry about. Even the mafia there didn't normally use guns.
After that, what do you do, go back to the hotel. Sorry, it was also bombed. The web ref for the details is here amongst other places. Oh thats ignoring the usual problems like dysentary and so on. Btw, this is one of Bushes 'friendly' countries.
Going to a meeting from another, passed an intersection and then bang. I think around a couple of dozen killed or so including a car a few minutes behind us with the driver of a friend of mine. This was bad!
It isn't about to swat Photoshop, but it will come from behind. As open source, it is intrinsically more versatile and will end up overtaking Photoshop. Eventually.
Ah, Pterry, I guess you must of commented on some inconsietncy of Carrot or something. That would definitely get him going.
Congratulations on learning to drive there. I don't mind busy, twisty little streets, the UK and Ireland have their share of those, but the Peripherie and parking are not my favourites in Paris. I tended to cheat, leaving my car on the outskirts and then use the metro.
Yep, I've seen that. I couldn't say a thing, I was so shocked!!! Driving in Paris is an experience indeed. I've also seen this technique in Amsterdam.
Amazingly Galaxy Quest showed that something different could be done and done well. However their actors weren't exactly bad either. Having Sigourney Weaver play "the girl with a chest" was great. Alan Rickman with Nimoy's "I'm not Spock"Angst, Tim Allen out-Shatnering Shatner.
It was funny and of course, it couldn't work without TOS and the TOS actors. Actually, I guess thats what drew me to Farscape to, intelligent sci-fi but with drama and oddball humour. The only really quirky character we have in Enterprise is the doctor.
Mir impacted too. I believe Skylab was too, but in both cases, the de-orbit was planned.
Hubble contains a large mirror and mount (made of titanium with a nice high melting point). It will definitely make a bonk when it hits the earth. The 1 in 700 estimate of harm is from NASA and was used to justify the end-of-life mission. Which is now cancelled. The chance seems small, but this is an involuntary risk as opposed to a voluntary one like riding in a car or travelling in a plane.
If this came from O'Keefe, cringe. He is a bean counter not an engineer. Remember him confidently announcing that falling foam was not an issue!!!
There are various discount cards that allow the railway company to data mine, but you can still buy a ticket for cash and nobody raises an eyebrow.
She has learned her lesson from the HP Laserjet workhorses, never build anything that reliable again!!
Oh, and forget about the computers. Far too complicated.
Ms Fiorina is doing for Women in business what Thatcher did for Women in politics.
DISK01$:[USERS.SMITH]filename.ext
The logical could be defined for DISK01$: (which happens to be a logical assigned at mount time) DISK01$:[USERS], DISK01$:[USERS.SMITH] and so on. Very flexible although the filesystem should loose the device reference to be more Unix like.
I'll try to put something together for you.
To give an example of a use for the DLM, is that I mentioned the value block. With this it is simple to implement a cluster wide transaction counter. I create a lock in exclusive mode and set the value block up with my transaction number. Each time I want to increment it, I grab the lock and increment the transaction number and then release it. The code becomes simple.
The other feature, much used by the file processor (XQP) is that the locks are asynchronous. You may have optionally have a call-back when a lock is grabbed or when you are blocking someone. The call back is an AST and may interrupt the mainline code at that access level. ASTs are also used throughout the system for I/O, process control and other activities. On macines without ASTs they can be implemented via threads and synchronization objects.
Other approaches tend to implement part of this, but not all, i.e., non-asynch or no value block or no resource tree.
The lesson from Unix is to make the locks visible under /proc using their resource names. Under VMS, binary information could be encoded into the resource name such as a record number.
IBM have implemented a partial distributed lock manager system for Linux in developerworks. However you also need good cluster wide communications. VMS tended to have drivers for various cluster wide communications varying from LANs (using multicast protocols) through to specialised buses.
Bochs is slow. Very slow. The Bochs/Plex86 combo doesn't seem to be out there yet. As for other VMs, my goal was to be able to host UML on a straight 2K/XP Pro system without having any special stuff between the Win kernel and the metal. VMware does some special stuff to support a VM under its host.
Resources are represented in a tree form and you may only lock something if you have a compatible lock higher up the tree. The lock-modes are something like: NULL, Shared Read, Shared Write, Protected Read, Protected Write and Exclusive. Certain modes are defined as being compatible with other modes, i.e., protected write with shared read. The resource tree means that you can only lock a record for write if you have the file open for write. If you can't get a lock, you get forced to wait. However, you can implement code so the current lock holder is imformed there is a waiter so the holder can choose to release the locks.
Another neat thing is that anyone getting access to a lock can receive an attribute block which can contain arbitrary information. This block can be updated by any system with protected write or exclusive lock levels and is instantly relayed to other processes, whichever node on a cluster that they reside.
Of course, the lock system has access levels, so a user can't mess with system held locks.
It really gets fun though because the lock manager doesn't give a damn about what the resources refer to, so you can use it for all kinds of things.
What is really cute is the interplay between the file system, RMS and logicals. This means that I can define a directory as follows:
DEFINE SRC USER,PROJECT,RELEASE
Whenever I access something via SRC:, it will pick the first occurrence out of the USER then PROJECT and finally RELEASE. This means that if the code was untouched, then it stays in RELEASE, if there is a project wide mod, then it can be in PROJECT and my personal copy under user.
Simply by changing the definition of SRC, I can switch to the project directory (ignoring my changes) or the release directory. This needs no supporting code in the programs. Effectively this is a bit like having a PATH for everything. Project management then becomes a doddle.
No liquid but a fluid, i.e. a gas, either air or the SO2/superheated steam mix that comes out of a volcano. This is not the same as piling a powder up until it becomes unstable.
Pyroclastic flows are like an avalanche and require a fluid to lubricate the solid. This is typically air or a gas. A pyroclastic flow, if anything most resembles an avalanche, albeit, a very hot one.
But I thought we spoke about those negative connotations.
Sure, they could put the proceeds from the next job towards upgrade licenses, but shouldn't they also eat? Add on the cost of some of the other packages thhey should have like Quark, and there isn't a lot of spare cash going around. The market is extremely competitive at the moment and software licenses aren't the top item on anyone's shopping list.
Of coourse, the main thing that keeps the Geosynchronous satellites warm is all those on-board electronics which work 24hrs. Spirit sort of sleeps overnight, I don't even know how much of it is left powered up. The rover is also a lot smaller, hence the RHU (that is why I missed it, I had searched for RTG).