What I don't understand is why the European Union even cares what the US thinks.
European politicians have seen Babylon 5... How are those death rays going at the moment? (Last I heard they were about 25% too heavy for a 747 to carry but they were working on it)...
I thought there was news recently that Siemens was losing a lot of development jobs. Which is a shame, since I was once offered an interview in Regensberg, which might have been interesting.
This is similar to how countries built on immigration (USA, Australia, England) don't want new immigrants, or how politicians who have had a free education at taxpayers expense vote for tuition fees for the next generation, or how Disney (a company built on extending public domain and not-so-public domain works) is the most keen on indefinately extending copyright to prevent other people from doing what they did.
The whole point is "screw you, kid; I've got mine!".
Some of us are ahead of our EU partners:-)
(elections in the UK are always held on a Thursday).
Unfortunately in the North West they have rolled back the reform acts of the 19th century and got rid of the idea of a secret ballot. With a mass postal ballot a patriarch can just collect a load of ballot papers and fill them in himself.
Local govt. in the US does control real estate allocation (via planning regulation) and look what a mess that has produced! They allocate it to look pretty on a colour coded map (with no contour lines) instead of being practical.
Americans are forced to own cars, since to buy a loaf of bread they would have to walk for three days through identikit suburbs to find the nearest shop.
A linked list is a data structure that contains links (for example pointers, handles, references, indexes, monikers) arranged with data items in a list (a linear chain of connections, rather than a tree). For example:
Ask question about linked lists. Goto 5.
???. Goto 4.
Submit answer to professor. Goto 2.
Profit!
Get reply about linked lists. Goto 3.
The "goto" items are the links. The numbers at the beginning are the anchors for the links (addresses, indexes or monikers). The instructions in each line are the data for each node.
is the "Windows" key, or as 3D Studio R4 (and other programs) called it, the "hard crash" key. Lots of artists physically ripped the key out of the keyboard, since it caused them to lose so much work if they accidentally pressed it. I guess that why a lot of people got the message from Bill Gates that windows == crash.
IIRC when I was at university before this whole internet thing became popular, one guy got a phone bill for $12,000 for one month. He was ringing up BBSs in the USA every day.
Thanks! Still then now I have to ask the IT department to track down the mythical installation disk... (and only God knows where the installation disk is for a PC you buy in a shop).
I was hoping for it to be just a cell format, like Percentage and Number, rather than a set of functions though, but I guess functions are OK if you sacrifice another column.
An artist asked me for something for him to write as grafitti on the wall of a game (I can't remember if it was released) so I suggested "squeamish ossifrage". Hey, this reference lark is easy!
The French have it easy when they want to upgrade their systems. All they have to do is wait a couple of months until everyone is on strike (usually July and December) and then they can upgrade the systems then! Hey presto a rolling system of maintenance.
Unless the system admins go on strike of course...
To persuade the lift to go to my floor you have to select the floor number and then another (higher) floor. This other floor appears to be different from week to week. Is that some kinda password?
Hah, as this weeks' suicide bombs in Karachi attest, some people don't have to get upset about recent events like the Crusades and the discovery of the "new world" when they can blow each other up in an argument over whether some guy should have been the third Caliph instead of waiting a while and becoming the fifth Caliph...
Their idea of an invading westerner is Alexander the Great!
I meant that contract law is a bit confusing for free software. If you are give code you don't have copyright to to a free project, what leverage do they have to ensure you were behaving well? An employer can sack you (because of the clause in the contract) but the free project might be attacked by the copyright holder without being able to vent their frustration on you.
Legal guessing aside, it is more likely for an open project to have dodgy code spotted than a closed one, which is the main point.
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Hey, the USA has got a standards agency of its own!
European politicians have seen Babylon 5... How are those death rays going at the moment? (Last I heard they were about 25% too heavy for a 747 to carry but they were working on it)...
PST is centred on Redmond, Washington. That is why all computers are set by default to the One Time Zone. Have you not seen a fresh computer before :-)
(so is an individual core a Jaguar?)
I thought there was news recently that Siemens was losing a lot of development jobs. Which is a shame, since I was once offered an interview in Regensberg, which might have been interesting.
The whole point is "screw you, kid; I've got mine!".
Unfortunately in the North West they have rolled back the reform acts of the 19th century and got rid of the idea of a secret ballot. With a mass postal ballot a patriarch can just collect a load of ballot papers and fill them in himself.
Americans are forced to own cars, since to buy a loaf of bread they would have to walk for three days through identikit suburbs to find the nearest shop.
Is that Thomas Jefferson the slave owner? :-) I can't remember him letting women vote either...
Manumission is not just a club in Ibiza.
A linked list is a data structure that contains links (for example pointers, handles, references, indexes, monikers) arranged with data items in a list (a linear chain of connections, rather than a tree). For example:
The "goto" items are the links. The numbers at the beginning are the anchors for the links (addresses, indexes or monikers). The instructions in each line are the data for each node.
A big lump who likes sleeping. Not that that reminds me of anyone...
is the "Windows" key, or as 3D Studio R4 (and other programs) called it, the "hard crash" key. Lots of artists physically ripped the key out of the keyboard, since it caused them to lose so much work if they accidentally pressed it. I guess that why a lot of people got the message from Bill Gates that windows == crash.
He's probably still paying it off...
I was hoping for it to be just a cell format, like Percentage and Number, rather than a set of functions though, but I guess functions are OK if you sacrifice another column.
How come Excel doesn't handle hexadecimal? Sheesh, I have to use calc.exe instead. Is there a decent free spreadsheet that is not so geek-challenged?
OTOH I think it is just under a pound for a litre at the moment (sterling, petrol).
An artist asked me for something for him to write as grafitti on the wall of a game (I can't remember if it was released) so I suggested "squeamish ossifrage". Hey, this reference lark is easy!
Unless the system admins go on strike of course...
To persuade the lift to go to my floor you have to select the floor number and then another (higher) floor. This other floor appears to be different from week to week. Is that some kinda password?
Do you have some sort of proximity detector on your mouse for clicks or something? Or a breath controller?
IIRC he used to support Lord Sutch (Official Monster Raving Loony Party)...
Their idea of an invading westerner is Alexander the Great!
So it's lucky that your term limits and elections meant you haven't kept people in from the Vietnam era, like Donald Rumsfeld for example. Oh wait...
Legal guessing aside, it is more likely for an open project to have dodgy code spotted than a closed one, which is the main point.
Fair enough, but it's most likely in your employment contract. The problem with doing things for free is that the law isn't geared up for it.