Here in Scotland, we have an exactly equivalent word - 'fly'. Generally meaning someone who is smart and morally flexible, particularly at getting what he wants from other people.
Hmmph. And there are still a dose of idiots who *do* believe anything told to them by some kook at the door. How do you think direct salespeople prosper?
Well, Cocks at GCHQ derived RSA independently four years before Rivest, Shamir et al. figured it out. One of my (brighter than me) friends went to work at GCHQ (on what I don't know, but he is a wrangler), and his only comment on the place was "it fucking blew my mind how far ahead of the rest of the world they are". It wouldn't surprise me in the least that they have discovered how to fast factor.
Goldfish jump out of water to escape predators - probably when you've got a pike snapping at your tail, trying to learn to breath real quick seems like a good option. When they jump out of tanks, it's because they are highly stressed, and that usually is down to the environment you keep them in. I've left the lid off my tank all day (accidentally) and they haven't succumbed to the Marco Polo instinct.
Do a little research on the German corporate landscape, where any large compnay is required to have a board drawn from employees. This board has a statutory right to influence the company's decision making and it is a major drag on effecting change within German corporations.
I was a happy SuSE fanboy for some years, starting with 6.something, and it just got better with every release...until it went all open. The quality and level of testing seems to have dropped dramatically: it was only stable in a default configuration, and sometimes not even then. I ran 8.2 for years with all sorts of stuff messed around and hacked the way I wanted it, and it all held together. I ran 10.1 for about a week and my last act with SuSE was to download and burn the Ubuntu iso.
Bad interface design. I will guarantee you that the reason he didn't switch it off was one of
He needed to test something with the power on
He would have had to reboot the robot
Getting in through the safety gate was hard
Someone told him it was safe to enter (that the product feed was inactive)
I've been smacked by robots a couple of times, and while the ones we have are simple lift and put robots that don't hit too hard, it still hurts and if it hit you the wrong way could probably do some serious damage. For the reasons why it's happened to me, see above.
I hate to be nerdy, but the income tax did not last all that long after Pitt introduced it. Apart from anything else, it was widely evaded and there was little the Inland Revenue of those days could do about it. You can blame Peel for its modern day incarnation (and Churchill for the concept of tax bands).
Slave labour does not make for a healthy economy. Ask Stalin. It may seem like a good solution for an individual company, but if they all do it, who can buy their products? Woops. There goes your economy.
No, it is GPL v2 - the only change he makes is to the preamble (which is not part of the license) which allows you to instead apply any later released version.
Ditto. I work in what's called high care food processing - which basically means that if our food isn't sterile when it goes in the pack, it might kill someone. Unfortunately, people don't like to pay very much for food, so our workers are not well paid and the old rule - pay peanuts, get monkeys - applies. If a supervisor isn't looking, all sorts of funny things happen. Workers enter a food processing area and don't wash their hands. Storage baskets are reused without being washed. Controlled items (knives, scissors) end up in packets. Dodgy product is sent out on long dates. With a tag on every single item, it would be easy to query the database for, say, re-used baskets, or anybody that hasn't stood at a sink for more than an hour, or stock issues like people pulling in ten times as much stuff from the stores as they need (which costs money). The potential benefits of this technology are huge - the issue for now is cost. We need cheap tags, and more importantly, scanners that we can put *everywhere*, all over the place. For this kind of application, the cost of scanners is more important than the tags themselves.
Hmm. You can call them suicide seeds or whatever you like, but at the end of the day Monsanto aren't the only supplier out there. And this is probably a good thing for Third World agriculture; by forcing farmers to become businessmen rather than just scratching for their own living, they will push yields up, industrialise, and total efficiency will rise. This is good for everyone that buys their produce.
That said, the best thing that could be done for these people would be scrapping the disgusting subsidies that Europe and the US give to our farmers, allowing them to produce food that otherwise wouldn't be profitable. By removing these subsidies, third world farmers would have fair access to our markets, and we could forget about all of this Fair Trade crap.
One of the main purposes of the EU is to ram through changes that individual governments beleive are unpalatable to electorates. Mainly stuff like selling off state industries, structural changes, changes to welfare systems, etc, etc. It does need done but people are getting so pissed off about it because they don't understand the need for change.
It's been done. Trouble is that it turns out it's almost impossible to knock down the interceptee and take it out. It's easy enough to knock it off course, but that's not neccesarily any better.
My attitude is, if you heard it, you're OK, because it already missed.
Funny. I had an Apple III for my first computer, and never had any overheating troubles. Deffy wasn't a III+.
Fun computer, could do all sorts of strange things.
They're actually quite often used for setting them off: since 99.9% of bomb scares are ill-founded, the economics works out simpler to just blast every suspect package and lose the odd robot than muck about with C4 and detonators (plus if you f*** up your dets then you really *have* got a problem).
How do I know? I spent two hours behind a wall discussing this with the guy who was driving the robot about trying to find the suitcase that some poor fool had left lying around.
My girldfriend will testify that a car will drive perfectly well, in fact indistinguishably from normal (to her, anyway), with the handbrake applied. She only drove some 280 miles before she pulled in for a coffee, tried to put the handbrake on...oh.
Not so. Where the copyright holder has licensed it to ASCAP or the US equivalent, gaining such permission is in the gift of that organisation and there is nothing the copyright holder can do. It is quite easy and relatively cheap, if you don't value your freedom.
If the copyright holder doesn't licence it (as happens quite often in the world of traditional music), you have to go to the holder and ask for permission. That permission does not have to be granted.
I don't know very much about economics, mostly gathered from irregular culling of the Economist, but...
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
Where to start? OK, what do you mean by saying that money should be given directly to individuals? If you are saying that citizens should just be handed free money on a regular basis (a la Alaska), that's just nonsense. The economy would respond by making that amount of money worthless: if everyone can suddenly afford stuff, prices will rise hard and fast. Not fun. If you are suggesting the Fed should be lending direct to individuals, that's simply not possible. The Fed manages and drives the economy as a whole; it makes decisions about trillions of dollars, not a few thousand for your new kitchen. The overhead of dealing with this kind of loan is not appropriate for what the Fed is for. They loan capital to individual banks, who then loan it out again to consumers. The individual banks get to decide the risk and take on the cost of managing the administration, meaning they have higher costs than the central lenders, which is why the Fed can loan at 3% and you haven't a hope of getting money at a rate like that.
This, by the way, *is* a free system. You don't like it? You can scrape together a few trillion dollars and start your own reserve, if you like. This is the system that has evolved, it works better than the alternatives, and it isn't going to go away.
By the way, I can assure you there are no 'buddies' in the world of higher finance: buddies tend to make very little money, and hence don't last very long.
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Before they kicked the majority of the hereditaries out the Lords, there was at least one petrol pump attendant there who attended regularly. How many do you think there are now?
NPOV is about preserving access to the truth in the face of forces that would distort it in favour of their own opinions. I don't think any would disagree that 2+2=4. However, you might see people disagree over, say, [[2001 presidential election]]. Or [[abortion]]. Or whatever. NPOV is about making sure the facts get set out and one side's opinions are not skewing the picture. More difficult than it sounds.
It may be pointless to some, but when it's capable of taking over from the proprietary software at my work, that'll be 20,000 of savings to you, buddy. And maybe I might finally get a pay rise (woohoo). And it'll crash less often than Windows 95, and I won't be standing there waiting for computers to reboot all day.
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Here in Scotland, we have an exactly equivalent word - 'fly'. Generally meaning someone who is smart and morally flexible, particularly at getting what he wants from other people.
Hmmph. And there are still a dose of idiots who *do* believe anything told to them by some kook at the door. How do you think direct salespeople prosper?
Well, Cocks at GCHQ derived RSA independently four years before Rivest, Shamir et al. figured it out. One of my (brighter than me) friends went to work at GCHQ (on what I don't know, but he is a wrangler), and his only comment on the place was "it fucking blew my mind how far ahead of the rest of the world they are". It wouldn't surprise me in the least that they have discovered how to fast factor.
Goldfish jump out of water to escape predators - probably when you've got a pike snapping at your tail, trying to learn to breath real quick seems like a good option. When they jump out of tanks, it's because they are highly stressed, and that usually is down to the environment you keep them in. I've left the lid off my tank all day (accidentally) and they haven't succumbed to the Marco Polo instinct.
Do a little research on the German corporate landscape, where any large compnay is required to have a board drawn from employees. This board has a statutory right to influence the company's decision making and it is a major drag on effecting change within German corporations.
I was a happy SuSE fanboy for some years, starting with 6.something, and it just got better with every release...until it went all open. The quality and level of testing seems to have dropped dramatically: it was only stable in a default configuration, and sometimes not even then. I ran 8.2 for years with all sorts of stuff messed around and hacked the way I wanted it, and it all held together. I ran 10.1 for about a week and my last act with SuSE was to download and burn the Ubuntu iso.
- He needed to test something with the power on
- He would have had to reboot the robot
- Getting in through the safety gate was hard
- Someone told him it was safe to enter (that the product feed was inactive)
I've been smacked by robots a couple of times, and while the ones we have are simple lift and put robots that don't hit too hard, it still hurts and if it hit you the wrong way could probably do some serious damage. For the reasons why it's happened to me, see above.I hate to be nerdy, but the income tax did not last all that long after Pitt introduced it. Apart from anything else, it was widely evaded and there was little the Inland Revenue of those days could do about it. You can blame Peel for its modern day incarnation (and Churchill for the concept of tax bands).
Slave labour does not make for a healthy economy. Ask Stalin. It may seem like a good solution for an individual company, but if they all do it, who can buy their products? Woops. There goes your economy.
No, it is GPL v2 - the only change he makes is to the preamble (which is not part of the license) which allows you to instead apply any later released version.
Ditto. I work in what's called high care food processing - which basically means that if our food isn't sterile when it goes in the pack, it might kill someone. Unfortunately, people don't like to pay very much for food, so our workers are not well paid and the old rule - pay peanuts, get monkeys - applies. If a supervisor isn't looking, all sorts of funny things happen. Workers enter a food processing area and don't wash their hands. Storage baskets are reused without being washed. Controlled items (knives, scissors) end up in packets. Dodgy product is sent out on long dates. With a tag on every single item, it would be easy to query the database for, say, re-used baskets, or anybody that hasn't stood at a sink for more than an hour, or stock issues like people pulling in ten times as much stuff from the stores as they need (which costs money). The potential benefits of this technology are huge - the issue for now is cost. We need cheap tags, and more importantly, scanners that we can put *everywhere*, all over the place. For this kind of application, the cost of scanners is more important than the tags themselves.
That said, the best thing that could be done for these people would be scrapping the disgusting subsidies that Europe and the US give to our farmers, allowing them to produce food that otherwise wouldn't be profitable. By removing these subsidies, third world farmers would have fair access to our markets, and we could forget about all of this Fair Trade crap.
One of the main purposes of the EU is to ram through changes that individual governments beleive are unpalatable to electorates. Mainly stuff like selling off state industries, structural changes, changes to welfare systems, etc, etc. It does need done but people are getting so pissed off about it because they don't understand the need for change.
My attitude is, if you heard it, you're OK, because it already missed.
PDF here.
Google cache, but the pictures are worth seeing
Funny. I had an Apple III for my first computer, and never had any overheating troubles. Deffy wasn't a III+. Fun computer, could do all sorts of strange things.
They're actually quite often used for setting them off: since 99.9% of bomb scares are ill-founded, the economics works out simpler to just blast every suspect package and lose the odd robot than muck about with C4 and detonators (plus if you f*** up your dets then you really *have* got a problem). How do I know? I spent two hours behind a wall discussing this with the guy who was driving the robot about trying to find the suitcase that some poor fool had left lying around.
My girldfriend will testify that a car will drive perfectly well, in fact indistinguishably from normal (to her, anyway), with the handbrake applied. She only drove some 280 miles before she pulled in for a coffee, tried to put the handbrake on...oh.
Guess their page will be inaccessible to search engines then. Oh, wait...
If the copyright holder doesn't licence it (as happens quite often in the world of traditional music), you have to go to the holder and ask for permission. That permission does not have to be granted.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
Where to start? OK, what do you mean by saying that money should be given directly to individuals? If you are saying that citizens should just be handed free money on a regular basis (a la Alaska), that's just nonsense. The economy would respond by making that amount of money worthless: if everyone can suddenly afford stuff, prices will rise hard and fast. Not fun. If you are suggesting the Fed should be lending direct to individuals, that's simply not possible. The Fed manages and drives the economy as a whole; it makes decisions about trillions of dollars, not a few thousand for your new kitchen. The overhead of dealing with this kind of loan is not appropriate for what the Fed is for. They loan capital to individual banks, who then loan it out again to consumers. The individual banks get to decide the risk and take on the cost of managing the administration, meaning they have higher costs than the central lenders, which is why the Fed can loan at 3% and you haven't a hope of getting money at a rate like that.
This, by the way, *is* a free system. You don't like it? You can scrape together a few trillion dollars and start your own reserve, if you like. This is the system that has evolved, it works better than the alternatives, and it isn't going to go away.
By the way, I can assure you there are no 'buddies' in the world of higher finance: buddies tend to make very little money, and hence don't last very long.
Can I recommend such a site?
Before they kicked the majority of the hereditaries out the Lords, there was at least one petrol pump attendant there who attended regularly. How many do you think there are now?
NPOV is about preserving access to the truth in the face of forces that would distort it in favour of their own opinions. I don't think any would disagree that 2+2=4. However, you might see people disagree over, say, [[2001 presidential election]]. Or [[abortion]]. Or whatever. NPOV is about making sure the facts get set out and one side's opinions are not skewing the picture. More difficult than it sounds.
It may be pointless to some, but when it's capable of taking over from the proprietary software at my work, that'll be 20,000 of savings to you, buddy. And maybe I might finally get a pay rise (woohoo). And it'll crash less often than Windows 95, and I won't be standing there waiting for computers to reboot all day.