Yeah, you're right, my memory was faulty. The one I was thinking of was third party (not Trumpet), it provided tcp/ip for win3.11 over radio/GSM/satellite and POTS. I was the technical lead for the largest mobile application in the southern hemisphere at the time, (6000 users spread all over Australia). All I can recall is we got the winsock.dll from a Brisbane based start up, the name of which escapes me now.
If $10 is nothing to IBM, lets see if they're hurt by $200M
IBM has roughly a 20% profit margin, meaning they need to make $50M in revenue to pay the $10M fine. A $50M loss in revenue isn't going to bankrupt IBM but you're kidding yourself if you think it doesn't hurt. Besides, the public officials who accepted (demanded?) the bribes are the real criminals in this story.
This is not about your petty domestic infighting, it's international politics. The US is receiving "near-universal praise" because this time US policy actually matches it's rehtoric. Respecting UN procedure is as democratic as international politics gets, the "Bush doctrine" is the exact opposite and basically states the US will do whatever it wants regardless of what the rest of the world thinks.
If it was about securing access to oil then the security council would be backing Gadafi. The other African despots are not dropping bombs on their own people, so a no fly-zone over them would be kinda pointless.
Microsoft did not have TCP/IP support until well into the '90's
Winsock.dll was part of the standard win3.1 install. It's just that MS didn't adevrtise it, same way as the standard C/C++ libraries come bundled with today's visual studio but MS documentation points the reader towards.net and C#.
A major Earthquake, Tsunami, Hurricane or firestorm in the wrong place could probably turn most western countries into Haiti within hours.
I assume you are excluding Australia. Major earthquakes are the worst natural disasters and thankfully are very rare here. However cyclone Yasi was on par in strength and size to Katrina, most of the buildings in it's path stayed intact because government regulations demand cyclone proof housing and all the older houses had already been blown away in previous cyclones. Cyclones, floods, drought and firestorms are a way of life down here, we usually have 2-3 cyclones cross the coast each year, a really major bushfire every 10-20 years, and massive floods evey time there's a strong el-Nina. There's nothing you can do about it except be well prepared before hand, send in the troops to clean up afterwards, and learn from your mistakes. Which is exactly what Japan have done. Dublin is not somewhere that is prone to natural diasters so they haven't had to learn from their mistakes. New Orleans is of course accustom to hurricanes which makes Katrina a story of gross incompetence in preparedness and bordering on criminal neglect in the aftermath.
Cyclone proof = Must be able to withstand 300km/hr winds.
Pedantry won't make any difference, the explosion is already a PR nightmare for the nuclear industry.
Disclaimer: I'm not anti-nuke, I'm pro pebble bed.
The most useful skill you can get from higher education is the skill of finding out for yourself (ie: learning how to learn). If you can already do that then you may well feel a little short changed.
It's not that I can't learn it, as obviously I did, it's that it wasn't useful.
I also have a BSc with majors in CS and operations research (logitics) from 20yrs ago. Most of what I learnt at university has not helped me make a quid, but if that's your sole measure of useful then I think you're missing the point of a decent education.
most phone devs want C/C++ development, not to rewrite everything they do for other platforms in.NE. If MS really was interested in "developers, developers, developers" they'd realise that devs want a common platform upon which to code so we can reuse code and don't have to write the same damn thing several times.
Ok, I'll feed the troll, here's the evidence. BTW, it's "extrodinary claims require extrodinary evidence", science is not, and has never been, in the business of proof.
somebody could come up with an evidence-supported model for abiogenesis, or a computationally plausible mechanism
Dr. Jack Szostak is your man. No ridiculous probablities, no supernatural forces, no lightning striking a mud puddle, just chemistry. There is no clear line where complex organic chemistry suddenly becomes alive. Abiogenisis is not the improbable miricale of a single microbe popping into existance that happened once at one specific place, it's a constant process of increasingly complex organic chemistry that occurs in newly formed oceans. Given the theory in the video it follows that microbial life in the universe is almost as common as liquid water, it's just that (so far) we haven't been able to visit anywhere with liquid water. It also follows that it's highly likey that micobes did arrive on a young Earth via comets (and still do) however it also likely that the early Earth's ecosystem ate them.
All I can say is that these "eye for an eye" people must have a great deal of faith in the infallibility of their justice system. Personally I can't understand why anyone would want to give the state the right to take it's own citizen's life, weather said citizen deserves to die or not is irrelevant.
Drugs are covered by patents and at the end of the day were excluded from the FTA precisely because any Aussie government that dismantled the PBS to please the US would be out on it's ear come election time. To the non-Aussies who don't know what the PBS is; it's a government scheme that ensures nobody pays more than (IIRC) $1200 a year for prescription medicine, it's been in effect since the 1950's and promotes the use of generics over brand name drugs.
Ten minutes is all it takes to understand the leading theory of aboigenisis. No ridiculous probabilities, no supernatural forces, no lightning striking a mud puddle. Just chemistry! Nitrogen and ammonia were both abundant in the "second atmosphere" (archean era) which is when the oceans and life first formed.
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So instead of being sucked out, the secretary will just be slammed against a screen?
No, she will be turned into chips.
I doubt it. People living in the Arctic circle don't sleep for 6 months.
Yeah, you're right, my memory was faulty. The one I was thinking of was third party (not Trumpet), it provided tcp/ip for win3.11 over radio/GSM/satellite and POTS. I was the technical lead for the largest mobile application in the southern hemisphere at the time, (6000 users spread all over Australia). All I can recall is we got the winsock.dll from a Brisbane based start up, the name of which escapes me now.
If $10 is nothing to IBM, lets see if they're hurt by $200M
IBM has roughly a 20% profit margin, meaning they need to make $50M in revenue to pay the $10M fine. A $50M loss in revenue isn't going to bankrupt IBM but you're kidding yourself if you think it doesn't hurt. Besides, the public officials who accepted (demanded?) the bribes are the real criminals in this story.
This is not about your petty domestic infighting, it's international politics. The US is receiving "near-universal praise" because this time US policy actually matches it's rehtoric. Respecting UN procedure is as democratic as international politics gets, the "Bush doctrine" is the exact opposite and basically states the US will do whatever it wants regardless of what the rest of the world thinks.
If it was about securing access to oil then the security council would be backing Gadafi. The other African despots are not dropping bombs on their own people, so a no fly-zone over them would be kinda pointless.
Microsoft did not have TCP/IP support until well into the '90's
Winsock.dll was part of the standard win3.1 install. It's just that MS didn't adevrtise it, same way as the standard C/C++ libraries come bundled with today's visual studio but MS documentation points the reader towards .net and C#.
I'm a cynic, you're a sad souless excuse for a human.
If RMS was really interested in other people's freedom he would not be trying to stop them from growing non-organic tomatoes.
A major Earthquake, Tsunami, Hurricane or firestorm in the wrong place could probably turn most western countries into Haiti within hours.
I assume you are excluding Australia. Major earthquakes are the worst natural disasters and thankfully are very rare here. However cyclone Yasi was on par in strength and size to Katrina, most of the buildings in it's path stayed intact because government regulations demand cyclone proof housing and all the older houses had already been blown away in previous cyclones. Cyclones, floods, drought and firestorms are a way of life down here, we usually have 2-3 cyclones cross the coast each year, a really major bushfire every 10-20 years, and massive floods evey time there's a strong el-Nina. There's nothing you can do about it except be well prepared before hand, send in the troops to clean up afterwards, and learn from your mistakes. Which is exactly what Japan have done. Dublin is not somewhere that is prone to natural diasters so they haven't had to learn from their mistakes. New Orleans is of course accustom to hurricanes which makes Katrina a story of gross incompetence in preparedness and bordering on criminal neglect in the aftermath.
Cyclone proof = Must be able to withstand 300km/hr winds.
Pedantry won't make any difference, the explosion is already a PR nightmare for the nuclear industry.
Disclaimer: I'm not anti-nuke, I'm pro pebble bed.
The most useful skill you can get from higher education is the skill of finding out for yourself (ie: learning how to learn). If you can already do that then you may well feel a little short changed.
It's not that I can't learn it, as obviously I did, it's that it wasn't useful.
I also have a BSc with majors in CS and operations research (logitics) from 20yrs ago. Most of what I learnt at university has not helped me make a quid, but if that's your sole measure of useful then I think you're missing the point of a decent education.
The chances of the reactor blowing up are next to zero. [snip]..Now, let this be a lesson to anti-nuke nuts.
Spoke too soon mate. Just 3 hours after you posted this someone else (symbolset) posted a link to a video of the reactor blowing up.
most phone devs want C/C++ development, not to rewrite everything they do for other platforms in .NE. If MS really was interested in "developers, developers, developers" they'd realise that devs want a common platform upon which to code so we can reuse code and don't have to write the same damn thing several times.
It's not hard to use MSVS with portable C/C++.
"So, where's that extraordinary proof?
Ok, I'll feed the troll, here's the evidence. BTW, it's "extrodinary claims require extrodinary evidence", science is not, and has never been, in the business of proof.
somebody could come up with an evidence-supported model for abiogenesis, or a computationally plausible mechanism
Dr. Jack Szostak is your man. No ridiculous probablities, no supernatural forces, no lightning striking a mud puddle, just chemistry. There is no clear line where complex organic chemistry suddenly becomes alive. Abiogenisis is not the improbable miricale of a single microbe popping into existance that happened once at one specific place, it's a constant process of increasingly complex organic chemistry that occurs in newly formed oceans. Given the theory in the video it follows that microbial life in the universe is almost as common as liquid water, it's just that (so far) we haven't been able to visit anywhere with liquid water. It also follows that it's highly likey that micobes did arrive on a young Earth via comets (and still do) however it also likely that the early Earth's ecosystem ate them.
"Out, damned spot! out, I say!".
Yeah, I ran win98 like that for 10yrs, the only problem I had was people laughing at me.
The Zimbabwe comment is out of bounds, because it is illegal. Respect the rule of law
Zimbabwe is ruled by whim not by law.
Hate to break it to you but you have been brainwashed by insurance company propoganda to act against your own best interest.
All I can say is that these "eye for an eye" people must have a great deal of faith in the infallibility of their justice system. Personally I can't understand why anyone would want to give the state the right to take it's own citizen's life, weather said citizen deserves to die or not is irrelevant.
Drugs are covered by patents and at the end of the day were excluded from the FTA precisely because any Aussie government that dismantled the PBS to please the US would be out on it's ear come election time. To the non-Aussies who don't know what the PBS is; it's a government scheme that ensures nobody pays more than (IIRC) $1200 a year for prescription medicine, it's been in effect since the 1950's and promotes the use of generics over brand name drugs.
If you still believe climategate was anything other than a political beat up then you haven't even bothered to do your own investigation.
I'm not an expert - so I may be wrong here.
Ten minutes is all it takes to understand the leading theory of aboigenisis. No ridiculous probabilities, no supernatural forces, no lightning striking a mud puddle. Just chemistry! Nitrogen and ammonia were both abundant in the "second atmosphere" (archean era) which is when the oceans and life first formed.