Yes, I have recently been reading about President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam... I'd be proud to have him as head of my state! The brain drain has happened everywhere. I'm actually trying to get a job in Mumbai right now... Doing my (little:-) bit to reverse the flow! I'm British, not Indian, but I have experience that's in demand there. Two of my ex-colleagues have gone to California though. Loads of money... Easy decision, right? Well, not for me. I suppose that technically I would be drained away from the UK, but fuck it... There's not much left of my industry over here:-(
Not necessarily. A battery is just a bunch of similar things. In the context of electricity, it's a bunch of cells. The cells can be anything you like, as long as they do the job, but that's not important. The only way it could be "not a battery" is if there's only one cell... But most people say "battery" when they should say "cell"... Good luck trying to change that!
The funny thing is, Cannabis Sativa (for example) grows like a weed... If it were legal, you'd have to pay someone to take it away! The law tends to come down harder on cultivation, so people prefer to pay the high prices rather than bag the few available prison cells...
Well OK then, you'd all get fat like Mr. Creosote. "Would Monsieur like a meent?" "No, fuck off, I'm stuffed." "But Monsieur, eet eez onlee waffair thin. And eet eez made een America! We cannot export zem no longair" "Oh all right then." <boom>
Look, I think GWB is a fucking tool. But I'm reminded of Tony Robbins' motivational thingy... Which I will shamelessly borrow here:-
At age 31, he failed in business At 32, he was defeated in a legislative election At 34, he failed again in business At 35, he was overcome by the death of his sweetheart At 36, he had a nervous breakdown At 43, he lost in a congressional election At 46, he ran for Congress and lost again At 48, he ran for again for Congress and was defeated At 55, he ran for Senate and lost At 56, he failed in his attempt to become Vice-President At 58, he ran again for Senate and lost At the age of 60, he was elected President of the United States
... Abe Lincoln. OK, it is sort of blasphemous to compare him to that twat Bush (hehe) but all I'm saying is that people can make mistakes and pick themselves up again. All this crap about DUI or coke or AWOL or whatever... Or Billy C getting his dick sucked. It's a distraction. You know, this guy is running the most powerful single nation on the planet. What's important is that he's a dribbling cockmonger now.
Well, I'm a programmer, and while I start ordinal numbering from 0, I start cardinal numbering from 1... Like everyone else. What's the declaration of the typesOfPeople array? How many elements are in it? 2. Or 10 in binary. How many elements are there in your empty set? -1?
Yes, that's also true, my point was just that DOS can be pretty bad if you have important messages... Also, what about the scheme where Eve first pretends to be Bob, receives the message, then pretends to be Alice and sends it on to Bob? Is this always detectable due to latency? It seems to me that it should be, as long as Alice and Bob can keep their clocks synchronised...
That is true, but denial of service is already achievable with a pair of cable cutters. The benefit of quantum encryption is that you can be sure that if a message does arrive, it hasn't been read by anyone else. You still need to protect the physical link. Having said that, if your cable is protected from cutting, it is also protected from installation of eavesdropping devices, so I'm not sure what QE actually achieves in practice. I suppose it's worse to have your messages covertly eavesdropped than to not receive them at all... But you're pretty stuffed either way!
Sorry, just attaching to the top +5 post at the moment...
Je voudrais, en tant que personne britannique, pour prolonger mes souhaits de besh à tous les geeks français (les giques ?), sur cet 100eme anniversaire de l'Entente Cordiale. Je pense que nous avons beaucoup en commun, pas simplement parce que nous sommes des geeks. Vive la France.
Valves are not linear devices. But if biased correctly, they can approximate linear behaviour. My grandpa was a big cheese in Mullard valves... Sadly not the winners in the thermionic war but they had the best sounding valves;-)
Eighteen years ago I saw this U.F.O And saddled up my tractor for a cosmic caravan I followed it through space and found this distant place Where everything is perfect for alien and a man We're carefree and easy and light years from home Why don't you lose that frown and let your hair down Come on let's link together in zero gravity I was born in Moscow baby You could maybe be my girl Ride my tractor all night long And everyone will sing our song We put on a great show a tractor rodeo Everyone's invited everyone should come Ten tractors in the night Ride shotgun if you like We're modern day space cowboys always on the run We're carefree and easy and light years from home Why don't you lose that frown and let your hair down Come on let's link together in zero gravity I was born in Moscow baby You could maybe be my girl Ride my tractor all night long And everyone will sing our song
- The Leningrad Cowboys (may their quiffs grow ever longer)
You have to be really careful with FM radio, because if you don't limit the signal to the transmitter, you'll end up stomping all over the spectrum. Not nice to your fellow broadcasters...
I lusted after those HERO units, they had 'em in the Maplin catalogue for a while (Maplin: UK electronics mail order/retail company; Maplin catalogue: used to be awesome, containing many cool products and useful pinouts/circuit diagrams etc, now a steaming pile of shit) The thing is, looking back, they were probably a bit umm.. limited weren't they? Thanks for the link though, I'll try to imagine what my life would have been like if I'd had enough cash to buy one.
Middle East oil has an EROEI of something like 30. That is, you get 31 barrels out of the ground, and you get to use 30 barrels of it for useful work. The other barrel is used to pump it out of the ground, refine it, ship it to your neighbourhood and pump it into your tank.
Oil from tar sands has an EROEI of about 1.5, so you waste 2 barrels for every 3 you get to guzzle. That's utterly shite, basically. Perhaps that figure has been improved recently with newer techniques, but it's not going to be competitive with M.E. oil until the latter has pretty much dried up.
The other bummer about tar sands oil is that it's really low quality, full of sulphur etc.
OK, we're both right. I fiddled with it a bit more and managed to get what I want. Basically you can drag the navigation buttons to the menu bar, but you can't drag the menus to the navigation bar.
So I wasn't just plain wrong, and if you're saying "You can drag any Firefox UI element anywhere you want it", well, that's wrong. Sorry.
Dude, I already have the Google Bar extension. That was my point. And yes, the search terms buttons are useful to me. As is the up button. And the (i) menu (cached snapshot of page, similar pages, backward links, translate into English).
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Yes, I have recently been reading about President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam... I'd be proud to have him as head of my state! :-) bit to reverse the flow! I'm British, not Indian, but I have experience that's in demand there. Two of my ex-colleagues have gone to California though. Loads of money... Easy decision, right? Well, not for me. :-(
The brain drain has happened everywhere. I'm actually trying to get a job in Mumbai right now... Doing my (little
I suppose that technically I would be drained away from the UK, but fuck it... There's not much left of my industry over here
Not necessarily. A battery is just a bunch of similar things. In the context of electricity, it's a bunch of cells. The cells can be anything you like, as long as they do the job, but that's not important. The only way it could be "not a battery" is if there's only one cell... But most people say "battery" when they should say "cell"... Good luck trying to change that!
The funny thing is, Cannabis Sativa (for example) grows like a weed... If it were legal, you'd have to pay someone to take it away!
The law tends to come down harder on cultivation, so people prefer to pay the high prices rather than bag the few available prison cells...
The Isle of Man's Tynwald trumps that, a continuous parliamentary democracy since 979.
Well OK then, you'd all get fat like Mr. Creosote.
"Would Monsieur like a meent?"
"No, fuck off, I'm stuffed."
"But Monsieur, eet eez onlee waffair thin. And eet eez made een America! We cannot export zem no longair"
"Oh all right then."
<boom>
But I'm reminded of Tony Robbins' motivational thingy... Which I will shamelessly borrow here:-
At age 31, he failed in business
At 32, he was defeated in a legislative election
At 34, he failed again in business
At 35, he was overcome by the death of his sweetheart
At 36, he had a nervous breakdown
At 43, he lost in a congressional election
At 46, he ran for Congress and lost again
At 48, he ran for again for Congress and was defeated
At 55, he ran for Senate and lost
At 56, he failed in his attempt to become Vice-President
At 58, he ran again for Senate and lost
At the age of 60, he was elected President of the United States
All this crap about DUI or coke or AWOL or whatever... Or Billy C getting his dick sucked. It's a distraction. You know, this guy is running the most powerful single nation on the planet. What's important is that he's a dribbling cockmonger now.
Is that a serious question? It's either highly amusing or gobsmackingly stupid, with or without the benefit of hindsight...
Your sig is bugging me... Is it a misheard line from Elvis Costello's "Oliver's Army"? Or what?
Pity they didn't have those machines when they built the chunnel... Could have had it done in a week... Funny site.
"You've never driven in rush hour traffic on a freeway that averages 10 mph for 2-3 hours have you?"
If that's really what you put up with on a regular basis, why don't you ride a bicycle instead?
Remember last year?
Probably, this year's traffic
Same shape, but scaled up.
Well, I'm a programmer, and while I start ordinal numbering from 0, I start cardinal numbering from 1... Like everyone else. What's the declaration of the typesOfPeople array? How many elements are in it? 2. Or 10 in binary. How many elements are there in your empty set? -1?
Yes, that's also true, my point was just that DOS can be pretty bad if you have important messages...
Also, what about the scheme where Eve first pretends to be Bob, receives the message, then pretends to be Alice and sends it on to Bob? Is this always detectable due to latency? It seems to me that it should be, as long as Alice and Bob can keep their clocks synchronised...
That is true, but denial of service is already achievable with a pair of cable cutters. The benefit of quantum encryption is that you can be sure that if a message does arrive, it hasn't been read by anyone else. You still need to protect the physical link. Having said that, if your cable is protected from cutting, it is also protected from installation of eavesdropping devices, so I'm not sure what QE actually achieves in practice. I suppose it's worse to have your messages covertly eavesdropped than to not receive them at all... But you're pretty stuffed either way!
Professor Magnus Pyke?
Sir Patrick Moore?
Professor Lord Robert Winston?
Professor Sir David Bellamy?
Sir David Attenborough?
None of them anywhere in the top ten. Sigh...
Sorry, just attaching to the top +5 post at the moment...
Je voudrais, en tant que personne britannique, pour prolonger mes souhaits de besh à tous les geeks français (les giques ?), sur cet 100eme anniversaire de l'Entente Cordiale. Je pense que nous avons beaucoup en commun, pas simplement parce que nous sommes des geeks. Vive la France.
Valves are not linear devices. But if biased correctly, they can approximate linear behaviour. My grandpa was a big cheese in Mullard valves... Sadly not the winners in the thermionic war but they had the best sounding valves ;-)
Eighteen years ago I saw this U.F.O
And saddled up my tractor for a cosmic caravan
I followed it through space and found this distant place
Where everything is perfect for alien and a man
We're carefree and easy and light years from home
Why don't you lose that frown and let your hair down
Come on let's link together in zero gravity
I was born in Moscow baby You could maybe be my girl
Ride my tractor all night long And everyone will sing our song
We put on a great show a tractor rodeo
Everyone's invited everyone should come
Ten tractors in the night Ride shotgun if you like
We're modern day space cowboys always on the run
We're carefree and easy and light years from home
Why don't you lose that frown and let your hair down
Come on let's link together in zero gravity
I was born in Moscow baby You could maybe be my girl
Ride my tractor all night long And everyone will sing our song
- The Leningrad Cowboys (may their quiffs grow ever longer)
You have to be really careful with FM radio, because if you don't limit the signal to the transmitter, you'll end up stomping all over the spectrum. Not nice to your fellow broadcasters...
I lusted after those HERO units, they had 'em in the Maplin catalogue for a while (Maplin: UK electronics mail order/retail company; Maplin catalogue: used to be awesome, containing many cool products and useful pinouts/circuit diagrams etc, now a steaming pile of shit)
The thing is, looking back, they were probably a bit umm.. limited weren't they? Thanks for the link though, I'll try to imagine what my life would have been like if I'd had enough cash to buy one.
Well, you get what you pay for. In your case, that'll be a smoking wreck after my superior Japanese robot has finished with it.
Er, no. The solar panels will charge batteries.
Energy Return On Energy Invested.
Middle East oil has an EROEI of something like 30. That is, you get 31 barrels out of the ground, and you get to use 30 barrels of it for useful work. The other barrel is used to pump it out of the ground, refine it, ship it to your neighbourhood and pump it into your tank.
Oil from tar sands has an EROEI of about 1.5, so you waste 2 barrels for every 3 you get to guzzle. That's utterly shite, basically. Perhaps that figure has been improved recently with newer techniques, but it's not going to be competitive with M.E. oil until the latter has pretty much dried up.
The other bummer about tar sands oil is that it's really low quality, full of sulphur etc.
Then only outlaws will have paradigms...
OK, we're both right. I fiddled with it a bit more and managed to get what I want. Basically you can drag the navigation buttons to the menu bar, but you can't drag the menus to the navigation bar.
So I wasn't just plain wrong, and if you're saying "You can drag any Firefox UI element anywhere you want it", well, that's wrong. Sorry.
Dude, I already have the Google Bar extension. That was my point. And yes, the search terms buttons are useful to me. As is the up button. And the (i) menu (cached snapshot of page, similar pages, backward links, translate into English).