My experience is the same. At my previous place there was 1 Mac. I only ever saw the screensaver running on it. Not sure what they used it for. Before that the last time I saw a Mac was at least 10 years ago.
I've worked in IT for 15 years.
Operation Stack is the codename used by Kent Police and the Port of Dover in England to refer to the method of using sections of the M20 motorway in Kent to park lorries when the English Channel or Dover ports are blocked by bad weather or industrial action. It has been implemented over 75 times since its inception 20 years ago.
I'm 2/3rds of the way through The Naked God (no spoilers please!). Gotta say it's an engrossing trilogy. And boy these are serious *books* at 1200+ pages a piece (paperback). That's what I call a book! Normally I stuff my book for the commute to work in my coat pocket (it's winter here) but I've no chance with any of the Night's Dawn trilogy:-)
Other authors with a similar genre are Ken Mcleod and Alastair Reynolds.
I gotta say, British sci-fi is going through a great phase. Space Opera - I love it! I'm eagerly awaiting Bank's book to be published in paperback. I don't do hardback, my bookcase is crammed enough as it is.
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I remember many years ago (when most people were on dialup) I left open anonymous FTP access to a NT4 server. A few months later I was checking the server and found a bunch of MP3 files. It seems some people were using it to share files. So I replaced the files with more suitable music (I kept the same filenames) and denied write access. But then again I was only the admin because the company was too cheap to afford a proper network admin. I'm a lowly programmer by trade.
I had a compiler on CP/M which generated assembly and sent the output to an assembler. I don't think GCC works that way. It probably generates machine code directly. Maybe it has a symbolic "assembly" layer inside.
On the flip side unless you fully understand the hardware how can you write good optimised C code? In C you might use a long (assume long is 32 bits for now!) to hold a counter. But the assembler programmer will know to stay clear of longs because he's programming a 16 bit CPU, or maybe longs take a performance hit.
Yes, but nobody pays that. It's priced so high as to force people to use Oyster cards where the equivalent journey would cost 1.5 pounds. Also, it's far quicker to walk from Covent Garden to Leicester Square...
Yeah. I can't figure out who ANYONE could make MONEY charging people RECURRING fees for CONTENT.
I mean, who would pay good money a month for a stack of dead trees?
Whoops, did I switch "magazine" and "music" again?
The major difference is that when you stop paying the recurring fee your old magazines don't suddenly become unreadable.
I too have a DVD burner and TV card. My plan was to convert all the VHS tapes I have to DVD. My problem is not burning of DVDs, I always burn at full speed without any problems, but rather the encoding process. It's a pain! First you have to frig about with filters, cropping etc to make the analogue signal look OK. Then you have to rip it using some lossless codec (HuffUV etc) because either the PC isn't fast enough for real-time MPEG encoding or you want to do 2 passes. Then there's the actual encoding, which takes hours. In the end it's easier and faster to find a torrent for the movie.
Very, very few people ever had firearms licences anyway in the UK. Not even the regular police carry guns, only anti-terrorism and rapid response firearms units. I've never even *seen* a gun apart from after the London tube bombings, in an airport or carried by soldiers. We're not a gun-obsessed nation like the US.
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I agree, it looks superb!
I'd actually never heard of the previous movie Star Wreck. I'm downloading it now.
Anyone know what language this is being filmed in?
This is very, very common in Greece and Turkey and I suspect other Mediterranean countries.
My experience is the same. At my previous place there was 1 Mac. I only ever saw the screensaver running on it. Not sure what they used it for. Before that the last time I saw a Mac was at least 10 years ago. I've worked in IT for 15 years.
IIRC the Mach kernel is written in C.
Yeah, we call it the Small Claims Court :-) You can even file a claim online.
The throttling kicks in for 4 hours. So if you trigger it at 8:59pm you would be throttled until 1:59am.
You forgot:
- QuickTime for Windows
- Brushed Steel
On second thoughts, make that any Apple product for Windows
Yes, but it's not much use if you don't have a driver for your network card!
Happens all the time in France.
Here in the UK we even have a special car park for when the French port workers strike:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Stack
Operation Stack is the codename used by Kent Police and the Port of Dover in England to refer to the method of using sections of the M20 motorway in Kent to park lorries when the English Channel or Dover ports are blocked by bad weather or industrial action. It has been implemented over 75 times since its inception 20 years ago.
I'm 2/3rds of the way through The Naked God (no spoilers please!). Gotta say it's an engrossing trilogy. And boy these are serious *books* at 1200+ pages a piece (paperback). That's what I call a book! Normally I stuff my book for the commute to work in my coat pocket (it's winter here) but I've no chance with any of the Night's Dawn trilogy :-)
Other authors with a similar genre are Ken Mcleod and Alastair Reynolds.
I gotta say, British sci-fi is going through a great phase. Space Opera - I love it! I'm eagerly awaiting Bank's book to be published in paperback. I don't do hardback, my bookcase is crammed enough as it is.
What is it again?
I remember many years ago (when most people were on dialup) I left open anonymous FTP access to a NT4 server. A few months later I was checking the server and found a bunch of MP3 files. It seems some people were using it to share files. So I replaced the files with more suitable music (I kept the same filenames) and denied write access. But then again I was only the admin because the company was too cheap to afford a proper network admin. I'm a lowly programmer by trade.
I'm really not a huge Beatles fan, but personally I would consider REM far more elevator music than the Beatles...
Or maybe a Jynnan Tonnyx?
I still have one in my A4000! Mine doesn't have a fan though (doesn't seem to be a problem...).
I had a compiler on CP/M which generated assembly and sent the output to an assembler. I don't think GCC works that way. It probably generates machine code directly. Maybe it has a symbolic "assembly" layer inside.
Actually most compilers work this way.On the flip side unless you fully understand the hardware how can you write good optimised C code? In C you might use a long (assume long is 32 bits for now!) to hold a counter. But the assembler programmer will know to stay clear of longs because he's programming a 16 bit CPU, or maybe longs take a performance hit.
He was right. Until Apple came along.
Yes, but nobody pays that. It's priced so high as to force people to use Oyster cards where the equivalent journey would cost 1.5 pounds. Also, it's far quicker to walk from Covent Garden to Leicester Square...
Yeah. I can't figure out who ANYONE could make MONEY charging people RECURRING fees for CONTENT.
I mean, who would pay good money a month for a stack of dead trees?
Whoops, did I switch "magazine" and "music" again?
The major difference is that when you stop paying the recurring fee your old magazines don't suddenly become unreadable.
I too have a DVD burner and TV card. My plan was to convert all the VHS tapes I have to DVD. My problem is not burning of DVDs, I always burn at full speed without any problems, but rather the encoding process. It's a pain! First you have to frig about with filters, cropping etc to make the analogue signal look OK. Then you have to rip it using some lossless codec (HuffUV etc) because either the PC isn't fast enough for real-time MPEG encoding or you want to do 2 passes. Then there's the actual encoding, which takes hours. In the end it's easier and faster to find a torrent for the movie.
And Office 2007 while they're at it.
Is 123456789, Unix time. No shit. 29 Nov 1973. Guess I'm a confirmed geek then?
Very, very few people ever had firearms licences anyway in the UK. Not even the regular police carry guns, only anti-terrorism and rapid response firearms units. I've never even *seen* a gun apart from after the London tube bombings, in an airport or carried by soldiers. We're not a gun-obsessed nation like the US.