I doubt if the usefulness of such secrecy ever came into it. The British government has an extensive record for secretiveness, largely because they have a long record of underhand dealings with all parts of the world, including their own populace.
They probably kept Bletchley Park's role (subsequently to the War) under wraps out of nothing more than sheer habit.
I actually prefer the Logitech Marble Mouse, because the trackball is controlled by my index and (to a lesser extent) middle fingers. Considerably faster and more precise than with the thumb controlled ball.
I guess that's a matter of perspective - I use a fairly large screen, so I often need quite large cursor movements which are easily done by spinning the ball, while very fine, controlled motions are easily managed by resting part of the thumb on the body of the device... But whatever works. I just like the combo of "vanilla" scrollmouse and the ball thingy.
Back to the topic, for the attention-deprived, a plug for my recommendation: Logitech Trackman Wheel. It's not actually manufactured any more, but is still available through any number of sources. And it's so robust, it'll last forever.
No more idiotic than the idiot who said roof-thatching and calligraphy were obsolete. Just tell that to someone who lives in a thatched house. And calligraphy is as popular as ever. Just because certain crafts are not on one's particular radar does not mean they have no relevance.
I'm speaking from personal experience as a trained blacksmith, although I no longer do this for a living. There was never any shortage of work if you had the right skills - by which I do not mean arc-welding bits of coat-hanger wire together and calling it wrought-ironwork.
I replaced my dual-screen CRT/xinerama arrangement with a single Samsung 275T, which does 1920x1280. Given it's a 27" screen, a little bigger than the OP was asking about, it suits my purposes nicely, and is quite affordable.
My opinion is that there is no reason for any flatscreen LCD to "kill your desk space" given (a) their small footprint and (b) the range of mounting options available.
But if you've had a succession of bosses who are so bad you can't work with them, I'd really move on.
Or better still, have a good long think about what you're doing wrong. Over the course of my life, I've come across any number of people who have a tendency towards sequential fallings-out with one person after another, who project the "fault" as being the other's.
When I was 39, I would have seen this as a black-or-white no-brainer in favour of remaining a techie.
Now I'm not so sure. At some point there comes a time when you get tired, and you lose patience with others' idiocies, and so you don't really want to spend your dotage jumping through arbitrary hoops of others' devising. On the one hand, you have to keep updating your tech skills, while on the other, you (usually) have to match up to some "Outcome" or "Key Performance Indicator" or whatever the current buzzword is.
It might be safe to say you hold greater job security doing a "real" job that can't be outsourced or done away with than you might in the shifting sands of present-day management. I know there is a widely shared view that managers are unskilled workers, but it is no longer an avenue for those wishing to coast their way through the years leading up to retirement.
even if the cops bought a Veyron, they'd be eating your dust...
Probably not for long.:-) It would probably take a whole tankful of petrol to get up to 420 km/h. They could probably catch you by getting out of their cars and walking a few hundred yards.
they recommend people to subscribe to certain feeds, and then charges the feeds for it. Not entirely a bad idea.
If it serves to hasten the demise of Twitter, it's a great idea. Maybe the sheeple can go find something more worthwhile to do than go "Baaaa! Baaa!" at each other instead. But I guess it would be stupid to underestimate the inanity of people in large numbers...
Since I'm not a citizen of the Windows world, but frequently get called in to troubleshoot, I tend to pull down AVG when the situation requires an anti-virus program. Does anyone here have any thoughts about this? If I am pissing into the wind, let me know. I won't pay dollars and cents of my own for a product I'll never use, but good advice for those who need it is a Good Thing.
...I generally figure about 2 hours to read a standard novel.
You're obviously not married. I only have to open a novel and my wife starts flapping her mouth. (Even if she herself is supposedly reading something.) I count it a quiet night if I manage half a paragraph without being interrupted...
Thirty extra-strength tylenols at once can destroy your liver and you'll die within 72 hours.
If you're lucky. Things have a tendency to go wrong with this course of medication, resulting in a fucked liver and a death spread over several weeks. It happened to my sister-in-law, and it's not pretty.
If you want to kill yourself, I'd suggest a nice clean OD on smack.
Sorry son, my Judo and BJJ beats your Tai Chi or Korean art (guffaw).
Most cyclists I've seen are emaciated, and would likely get curb stomped if they'd try to make it physical.
1. I'm not your son - my dad is in his eighties... and
2. You forget that there are plenty of cyclists out there who don't shave their legs and who are built like brick shithouses. Plus the fact that a cleated shoe is serious medicine that can do an awful lot of damage. Guffaw all you want, but you'll look pretty damn stupid if you have to stick your toothbrush up your ass to clean your teeth.
No they don't. Sooner or later you have to stop at a traffic light, and if you behave like an asswipe and insist that "you get outta my way 'cause I'm bigger'n you", then you have some humility therapy due. Here, it's quite common for car drivers to find a boot through their side window and their faces smacked into the steering wheel. I've also seen them yanked out of their BMW 4WDs and kicked into a pulp by irate cyclists.
A bigger genome != a more complex organism. What we seem to be finding is all sorts of funky ways for genes to be expressed. For those here who don't know, this is incredibly cool and froody. All that DNA formerly regarded as "junk" seems to be no such thing. We share lots of DNA sequences with rats and cockroaches, but expression is what counts.
But if you really want the ultimate in compact DNA with obfuscated (and self-modifying) code, I would recommend viruses. (Incidentally, a significant portion of our own DNA is of viral origin.) If there were a god, viruses would be my foremost evidence for its existence. And that god would definitely have to qualify as a really l337 geek.
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In Australia, we have a (very common) saying ... Pommy Bastards!
Now the rest of the world might understand what we mean!
Hmmm. The record of many Australian governments for underhand dealings is nothing to be sanctimonious about either, so pipe down.
[Disclaimer: I am a British (not English) and Australian dual national.]
I doubt if the usefulness of such secrecy ever came into it. The British government has an extensive record for secretiveness, largely because they have a long record of underhand dealings with all parts of the world, including their own populace.
They probably kept Bletchley Park's role (subsequently to the War) under wraps out of nothing more than sheer habit.
If your system hasn't been compromised, it doesn't matter.
It would if the network points to a poisoned DNS cache.
I actually prefer the Logitech Marble Mouse, because the trackball is controlled by my index and (to a lesser extent) middle fingers. Considerably faster and more precise than with the thumb controlled ball.
I guess that's a matter of perspective - I use a fairly large screen, so I often need quite large cursor movements which are easily done by spinning the ball, while very fine, controlled motions are easily managed by resting part of the thumb on the body of the device... But whatever works. I just like the combo of "vanilla" scrollmouse and the ball thingy.
Damn, the link I gave was for the wired version. Should have been this one.
Back to the topic, for the attention-deprived, a plug for my recommendation: Logitech Trackman Wheel. It's not actually manufactured any more, but is still available through any number of sources. And it's so robust, it'll last forever.
...plenty of people out there drive badly, and it's not vehicle-specific.
Oh yes it is. The worst offenders here (Australia) used to drive Volvos, but now they seem to favour Subaru Foresters.
No more idiotic than the idiot who said roof-thatching and calligraphy were obsolete. Just tell that to someone who lives in a thatched house. And calligraphy is as popular as ever. Just because certain crafts are not on one's particular radar does not mean they have no relevance.
I'm speaking from personal experience as a trained blacksmith, although I no longer do this for a living. There was never any shortage of work if you had the right skills - by which I do not mean arc-welding bits of coat-hanger wire together and calling it wrought-ironwork.
I replaced my dual-screen CRT/xinerama arrangement with a single Samsung 275T, which does 1920x1280. Given it's a 27" screen, a little bigger than the OP was asking about, it suits my purposes nicely, and is quite affordable.
My opinion is that there is no reason for any flatscreen LCD to "kill your desk space" given (a) their small footprint and (b) the range of mounting options available.
But if you've had a succession of bosses who are so bad you can't work with them, I'd really move on.
Or better still, have a good long think about what you're doing wrong. Over the course of my life, I've come across any number of people who have a tendency towards sequential fallings-out with one person after another, who project the "fault" as being the other's.
When I was 39, I would have seen this as a black-or-white no-brainer in favour of remaining a techie.
Now I'm not so sure. At some point there comes a time when you get tired, and you lose patience with others' idiocies, and so you don't really want to spend your dotage jumping through arbitrary hoops of others' devising. On the one hand, you have to keep updating your tech skills, while on the other, you (usually) have to match up to some "Outcome" or "Key Performance Indicator" or whatever the current buzzword is.
It might be safe to say you hold greater job security doing a "real" job that can't be outsourced or done away with than you might in the shifting sands of present-day management. I know there is a widely shared view that managers are unskilled workers, but it is no longer an avenue for those wishing to coast their way through the years leading up to retirement.
I'm sort of surprised that the reaction so far has been the sound of crickets and loud yawning... meh
Well, the OP certainly got a loud yawn from me for the remark about indexing twitter posts. They might just as well index cockroach farts.
even if the cops bought a Veyron, they'd be eating your dust ...
:-) It would probably take a whole tankful of petrol to get up to 420 km/h. They could probably catch you by getting out of their cars and walking a few hundred yards.
Probably not for long.
they recommend people to subscribe to certain feeds, and then charges the feeds for it. Not entirely a bad idea.
If it serves to hasten the demise of Twitter, it's a great idea. Maybe the sheeple can go find something more worthwhile to do than go "Baaaa! Baaa!" at each other instead. But I guess it would be stupid to underestimate the inanity of people in large numbers...
Since I'm not a citizen of the Windows world, but frequently get called in to troubleshoot, I tend to pull down AVG when the situation requires an anti-virus program. Does anyone here have any thoughts about this? If I am pissing into the wind, let me know. I won't pay dollars and cents of my own for a product I'll never use, but good advice for those who need it is a Good Thing.
...but if we're honest about it, recursive acronyms don't necessarily work very well. Thus:
;-)
ROSA -> TAVUROSA (This Ain't a Very Useful Recursive Operating System Acronym).
I can go on all night if you like...
...I generally figure about 2 hours to read a standard novel.
You're obviously not married. I only have to open a novel and my wife starts flapping her mouth. (Even if she herself is supposedly reading something.) I count it a quiet night if I manage half a paragraph without being interrupted...
Let me take this opportunity to call the BING TV ad campaign the most repulsive since the one where Bill G wiggles his butt. (Ugh, shudder!)
Not so sure about that. Microsoft's puke ad was pretty bad...
Well, Microsoft has certainly been dragged through the courts often enough, but it would appear they rarely get around to paying their fines.
Thirty extra-strength tylenols at once can destroy your liver and you'll die within 72 hours.
If you're lucky. Things have a tendency to go wrong with this course of medication, resulting in a fucked liver and a death spread over several weeks. It happened to my sister-in-law, and it's not pretty.
If you want to kill yourself, I'd suggest a nice clean OD on smack.
Sorry son, my Judo and BJJ beats your Tai Chi or Korean art (guffaw). Most cyclists I've seen are emaciated, and would likely get curb stomped if they'd try to make it physical.
1. I'm not your son - my dad is in his eighties... and
2. You forget that there are plenty of cyclists out there who don't shave their legs and who are built like brick shithouses. Plus the fact that a cleated shoe is serious medicine that can do an awful lot of damage. Guffaw all you want, but you'll look pretty damn stupid if you have to stick your toothbrush up your ass to clean your teeth.
Cars always win...
No they don't. Sooner or later you have to stop at a traffic light, and if you behave like an asswipe and insist that "you get outta my way 'cause I'm bigger'n you", then you have some humility therapy due. Here, it's quite common for car drivers to find a boot through their side window and their faces smacked into the steering wheel. I've also seen them yanked out of their BMW 4WDs and kicked into a pulp by irate cyclists.
The question is, can you attribute any intelligence on the part of the viruses as contributing to this process?
:-)
No. I was merely postulating that their chemistry is way beyond cool, and that if I were a God, I would be fucking proud to have come up with them.
This is all beside the point.
A bigger genome != a more complex organism. What we seem to be finding is all sorts of funky ways for genes to be expressed. For those here who don't know, this is incredibly cool and froody. All that DNA formerly regarded as "junk" seems to be no such thing. We share lots of DNA sequences with rats and cockroaches, but expression is what counts.
But if you really want the ultimate in compact DNA with obfuscated (and self-modifying) code, I would recommend viruses. (Incidentally, a significant portion of our own DNA is of viral origin.) If there were a god, viruses would be my foremost evidence for its existence. And that god would definitely have to qualify as a really l337 geek.
Damn Slashcode. The second sentence should end with "less than 1".