3. Don't tell your female relatives your email address. They will send you "funny" jokes and cc it to every person they know. This will eventually get to a spammer.
4. Don't tell any management/marketing people your email address. They will get a virus which will email their mailing list to a spammer.
5. Wonder what the point is of having an email address if no-one knows it.
Near where I live, the council decided to put up a ~50 foot metal tower and tent combination for an exhibition. Not grounding it sensibly turned out to be a problem when a thunderstorm appeared and it was hit by lightning.
We are talking about the far-distant future after all*, and long before then middleware graphics engines will be powerful enough (and ubiquitous enough, due to economic forces) for shovelware to work on Linux. The middleware could be retargeted onto something less patent-encumbered.
* When programmers learn how to create decent user interfaces, hardware manufacturers give their specs out with joy, linux users get jobs and can afford to buy software and games companies feel like doing something they haven't done to death already. Yup, far distant future.
I thought that method of RLE came from the original Macintosh.
And yes, I still use EA-IFF 85 to encode my files, curse XML and its hatred of binary data.
I note that Microsoft ripped off that format and uses it (with modifications of course - changed the endianness and alignment of chunks) for WAV files.
when you retire, and want to draw a pension, and the bank says "well, we don't feel like giving you your money, and you think the government/courts shouldn't be able to force us to give it to you, so tough!"
I think anarchists are far too utopian if they think this system will work...
The key word in your statement is "should".
If a group of people does not pool decision making and enforcement (which is what a government is) then the majority of honest people will lose out to cheats or thieves. This situation is unstable.
If there are no rules enforced very rapidly people need a strongman to resolve disputes and one arises (e.g. the new "Emir" of Herat/western afghanistan). He then seeks legitimacy as a king, and it becomes heriditary (because humans like their own kids, unlike in the world of Logan's Run).
Eventually we get a democracy or representative democracy, or perhaps there is a better style of leadership as yet unknown. But I think it better to aim at current "democratic" values (representation, individual rights, transparency) rather than start from scratch.
When I went up there I was amazed to see an italian girl walking (with difficulty) to the bridge uphill through the ice and snow... in designer stillettos!
Just because you are blind, doesn't mean your wife/husband/parter and kids are blind too. The license covers them watching it (as long as they live in the same household). And it does cover radio:-)
you only have two channels:
SBC(S?) (which is cool) and 2/7/9/10 which broadcasts the exact same news clips and music video clips and sports programs and US tv programs at the same times on different frequencies.
At least it did when I lived there. At 6 oclock you could watch the news, the news, the news, the news or SBC (the news in a foreign language:-). At the weekend you could watch sport, sport, sport, sport or SBC.
At least in the UK they stagger the news programs by half an hour or so, so that if you like news (or comedy or scifi etc.) you can channel hop instead of messing around with video tape.
in central london, there will be a van-load of cops there almost before you hang up. Less than a minute certainly. I've had to do this several times (to break up fights).
Don't expect anything like that response time for the ambulance though.
One big reason why the tube shuts down at night is because they need some time of day to fix the thing. If you catch the last tube home you will often see groups of guys wearing high-visibility overalls getting ready to fix the track... (well maybe not as often as there should be).
And the idea behind it has transformed into that huge success that is Worms online in Korea (the world leader in online games - their games make ultima online and everquest seem like neighbourhood LANs by comparison).
The succesfully prosecuted cases nearly always result in a life prison sentence or the death penalty.
Not necessarily of the person who committed the crime however, as recent DNA testing has shown. Until we get 100% conviction of the correct person we should not be satisfied. Not that I think we should completely rely on technology of course (lawyers seem to have a funny attitude to statistics and math).
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I think I need to do more research; my sample size has remained static for a long time :-/
I wonder how US students will mod this :-)
I don't want to tempt fate and have an asteroid hit me/become victim of mad serial killer/get struck by lightning.
When I bought a Nintendo 64 my mother asked me "so is that as powerful as your Commodore 64 then?" :-)
It's a bit older than some of the other RISC designs, but it is rather cool and cheap and used in an awful lot of places (e.g. GBA).
3. Don't tell your female relatives your email address. They will send you "funny" jokes and cc it to every person they know. This will eventually get to a spammer.
4. Don't tell any management/marketing people your email address. They will get a virus which will email their mailing list to a spammer.
5. Wonder what the point is of having an email address if no-one knows it.
Flying a jet into an italian ski-lift killing many people is not considered a crime.
The exhibition? Architecture of the future :-)
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20 ...submit
I think we have a cheap new entry for Robot Wars!
We are talking about the far-distant future after all*, and long before then middleware graphics engines will be powerful enough (and ubiquitous enough, due to economic forces) for shovelware to work on Linux. The middleware could be retargeted onto something less patent-encumbered.
* When programmers learn how to create decent user interfaces, hardware manufacturers give their specs out with joy, linux users get jobs and can afford to buy software and games companies feel like doing something they haven't done to death already. Yup, far distant future.
And yes, I still use EA-IFF 85 to encode my files, curse XML and its hatred of binary data.
I note that Microsoft ripped off that format and uses it (with modifications of course - changed the endianness and alignment of chunks) for WAV files.
Already most of your food is ultimately dependant on 5 or 6 food companies. Not that this is a good thing :-(
And then bean count so we cannot get working air conditioning and it is 32 degrees at my desk when it is a pleasant 24 degrees outside!
I do shower and change clothes once a day (twice on hot days) but without air-con or a relaxed dress code it's a losing battle.
This says it all
I think anarchists are far too utopian if they think this system will work...
The key word in your statement is "should".
If a group of people does not pool decision making and enforcement (which is what a government is) then the majority of honest people will lose out to cheats or thieves. This situation is unstable.
If there are no rules enforced very rapidly people need a strongman to resolve disputes and one arises (e.g. the new "Emir" of Herat/western afghanistan). He then seeks legitimacy as a king, and it becomes heriditary (because humans like their own kids, unlike in the world of Logan's Run).
Eventually we get a democracy or representative democracy, or perhaps there is a better style of leadership as yet unknown. But I think it better to aim at current "democratic" values (representation, individual rights, transparency) rather than start from scratch.
When I went up there I was amazed to see an italian girl walking (with difficulty) to the bridge uphill through the ice and snow... in designer stillettos!
Just because you are blind, doesn't mean your wife/husband/parter and kids are blind too. The license covers them watching it (as long as they live in the same household). And it does cover radio :-)
At least it did when I lived there. At 6 oclock you could watch the news, the news, the news, the news or SBC (the news in a foreign language :-). At the weekend you could watch sport, sport, sport, sport or SBC.
At least in the UK they stagger the news programs by half an hour or so, so that if you like news (or comedy or scifi etc.) you can channel hop instead of messing around with video tape.
"Oops, well this time we've got the right guy!"
This was for a prolific serial killer I think.
Don't expect anything like that response time for the ambulance though.
There are night buses.
One big reason why the tube shuts down at night is because they need some time of day to fix the thing. If you catch the last tube home you will often see groups of guys wearing high-visibility overalls getting ready to fix the track... (well maybe not as often as there should be).
<smug>I live near a 24hr train station.</smug>
And when travelling between midnight and 5am I suspect I would be over the alcohol limit for driving, so there is a safety benefit too :-)
"ice" is a noun. Unless you watch too many Mafia films.
"is" is a verb. Unless someone means Information Systems.
So you can easily remember whether it is licence or license.
And the idea behind it has transformed into that huge success that is Worms online in Korea (the world leader in online games - their games make ultima online and everquest seem like neighbourhood LANs by comparison).
Not necessarily of the person who committed the crime however, as recent DNA testing has shown. Until we get 100% conviction of the correct person we should not be satisfied. Not that I think we should completely rely on technology of course (lawyers seem to have a funny attitude to statistics and math).