Germans lost the Battle of Britain because Hitler forgot the first rule of an air war is to defeat the other guys planes... he switched targets from the airfields to bombing London and gave the RAF a let off... had he kept on bombing the airfields, the RAF would have run out of places to fly from close to the channel and would have been taking off from much further away and thus been on the back foot when it came to actual time to fight in the air... He'd have had local air superiority and then would have been able to launch the invasion they were ready for
If you wargame the France campaign and Sealion properly and replace Hitler with a competent leader, then the British lose EVERY time... they don't get to get their army off Dunkirk and they don't get to operate their fighters off the airfields in the south east and home counties, they lose the radars which the Germans did know about... bit difficult to hide those and thus have to rely on MK.1 eyeball and ears for locating the enemy bomber formations... for which they won't get early warning of them taking off and forming up over France.
Maybe not such a great marketing move. I wonder how Microsoft would react to much higher than expected numbers of Linux boxes. In the distant past, Linux was waved off on the desktop side as a hobbyist or novelty platform, but I've seen many of my friends and colleagues switch over to a Linux distro in the past few years for their primary OS.
maybe anecdotal evidence, but evidence nonetheless... the supermarkets in my locality ALL have a small amount of shelf space allocated for Linux Format magazine and in some cases, Linux Magazine as well... people must be buying the magazines, otherwise, the supermarkets would reallocate the space in a heartbeat... they monitor every item being sold and if anything is lacking in performance ie pounds coming in per week per foot of shelf then it gets dropped...
is the problem... some tosser in Parliament got it so that companies could get around our foreign labour restrictions by allowing companies to set up offices in places like India and then bring in Indian staff on secondment for a year before rotating them out for other secondees...
As for their naming policy? It's entirely within their right to determine how they intend to curate the culture of their service and if it means there will be less fake names posting ridiculous crap on the service than are doing so on competing services and it will somehow elevate the general level of discourse compared to the competing services, then have at it. (This is not to endorse required identification for using the internet - only for using a particular service that is offered on a website to people on the internet.)
They're going to get run out of Germany on a rail if they keep pushing it... the Germans have very long memories of what can be done when your ID can be linked to your actions or what your religion is... Not only Nazi Germany using IBM provided technology to identify Jews and help round them up, But the East German Stasi with their requirements that all typewriters had to be registered with the authorities and samples of text provided... so they could try and track Samizdat newsletters to typists.
What seems a reasonable request for identification now, can very quickly become a nightmare if the government is taken over by an extreme right or left wing ideology who wish to start rounding up all dissidents
The neuroscientists ran a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test on an Apple fanatic and discovered that images of the technology company's gadgets lit up the same parts of the brain as images of a deity do for religious people, the report says.
The first episode of the documentary shows Apple employees "whipped up into some sort of crazy, evangelical frenzy" at the recent opening of an Apple store in London.
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as they've disabled my account until I can prove who I am... ridiculous as all details on the account are correct and I'm not using a pseudonym or weird punctuation or daft middle name either for it...
So don't think it can't happen to you, as it has to me and I was following their rules
it's only a little yacht... just fifteen foot... bought fourth hand for just £400... somewhere to escape at the weekends... You don't have to be mega rich to own a yacht...
"People who buy iPads (currently massively outselling kindles) and use them to read books, and the net, and watch videos etc. apparently do."
In the basement, yes. Mom and Dad use an e-Ink reader on the deck in full sunlight.
So true... that is the primary advantage of an e-Ink display other than sheer battery life. I can chill out in the cockpit of my yacht and read a book on my Kindle in broad daylight with the sun shining on the display... Used to read e books on my Palm Tungsten E, but I had to find a really good shadow or else go indoors and lurk in the shade to even begin to make out any text on the display
you hide your steganographic messages in alt.binaries.boneless, the traffic is monumental and the retention on some servers is amazing...
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into using Linux as it enabled me to try it in a loopback file before committing to messing with my partitions... back then it was a very fearsome step...
* 'lnx4win' for standard graphic installation using Linux for windows. This will create two files on your Windows partition which will carry the Linux installation and swap. Great if you don't want to get into some messy partitioning.
Back then we didn't have live distros so you couldn't just boot off the CD to try it out, you had to commit to installing it in a fashion first and the linux for windows method was the best way for newbies
The method is "computer implemented" sure, but it's not software. Each step has a technical nature "do this, do that, wait for this to occur and then do something etc".
The Hardware's not fucking doing this though... the hardware is merely a touchscreen that is providing a series of coordinates that the SOFTWARE IS USING just like a computer mouse, trackball, graphics tablet or whatever would do for the software to act on... put the exact same software on a laptop or desktop computer and drive it with a mouse and it does the same thing... it's fucking obvious and should NEVER HAVE BEEN PATENTED IN THE FIRST PLACE... the only thing that could ever be patented about the touchscreen is just exactly how it provides the coordinates from the touch input
I'm getting really pissed off with software patents where they take an idea and add with a computer or with a touchscreen or whatever and expect it to be patentable...
fuck off, you lost... now let's move on... Start competing on features like ease of use, interoperability, openness and some genuine innovation... and stop trying to use the courts to protect your lunch...
don't need a camera... just need sensors set up at a distance from the lights like we have in the UK and the traffic control system programmed correctly... our lights will change to green when you approach and there's no traffic sensed on the lanes that are already green which will then turn red... Some of our lights are set up so that priority routes always return to green
Hmmm wonder if they given the Libyans any ITAR restricted stuff... If they have and they haven't got the proper agreement in place, then they're in deep doo-doo... Canadians or not...
Surely any event that could eject material from earth with sufficient energy to escape Earth's gravity well would tend to melt the ejecta at the same time, so the bacteria would have to be seriously hardy...
to cause massive chaos using the European Community Design patents... which are subject to no review at all when being granted, merely have the right forms been filled in in the correct manner... the referenced Community Design being the one responsible for Samsung being blocked from selling their Galaxy items in Germany as they purportedly look like a thing thing with rounded corners that Apple have registered a community design for...
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they didn't randomly switch targets... Hitler ordered them to switch to bombing London in revenge for a raid on Berlin...
Germans lost the Battle of Britain because Hitler forgot the first rule of an air war is to defeat the other guys planes... he switched targets from the airfields to bombing London and gave the RAF a let off... had he kept on bombing the airfields, the RAF would have run out of places to fly from close to the channel and would have been taking off from much further away and thus been on the back foot when it came to actual time to fight in the air... He'd have had local air superiority and then would have been able to launch the invasion they were ready for
If you wargame the France campaign and Sealion properly and replace Hitler with a competent leader, then the British lose EVERY time... they don't get to get their army off Dunkirk and they don't get to operate their fighters off the airfields in the south east and home counties, they lose the radars which the Germans did know about... bit difficult to hide those and thus have to rely on MK.1 eyeball and ears for locating the enemy bomber formations... for which they won't get early warning of them taking off and forming up over France.
maybe anecdotal evidence, but evidence nonetheless... the supermarkets in my locality ALL have a small amount of shelf space allocated for Linux Format magazine and in some cases, Linux Magazine as well... people must be buying the magazines, otherwise, the supermarkets would reallocate the space in a heartbeat... they monitor every item being sold and if anything is lacking in performance ie pounds coming in per week per foot of shelf then it gets dropped...
Thank you very much... :)
is the problem... some tosser in Parliament got it so that companies could get around our foreign labour restrictions by allowing companies to set up offices in places like India and then bring in Indian staff on secondment for a year before rotating them out for other secondees...
Is that they want $18 for instant access to the full document...
They're going to get run out of Germany on a rail if they keep pushing it... the Germans have very long memories of what can be done when your ID can be linked to your actions or what your religion is... Not only Nazi Germany using IBM provided technology to identify Jews and help round them up, But the East German Stasi with their requirements that all typewriters had to be registered with the authorities and samples of text provided... so they could try and track Samizdat newsletters to typists.
What seems a reasonable request for identification now, can very quickly become a nightmare if the government is taken over by an extreme right or left wing ideology who wish to start rounding up all dissidents
What fucking wanker modded me down as it's directly relevant to the topic in question...
So don't think it can't happen to you, as it has to me and I was following their rules
very influential programming book...
it's only a little yacht... just fifteen foot... bought fourth hand for just £400... somewhere to escape at the weekends... You don't have to be mega rich to own a yacht...
So true... that is the primary advantage of an e-Ink display other than sheer battery life. I can chill out in the cockpit of my yacht and read a book on my Kindle in broad daylight with the sun shining on the display... Used to read e books on my Palm Tungsten E, but I had to find a really good shadow or else go indoors and lurk in the shade to even begin to make out any text on the display
you hide your steganographic messages in alt.binaries.boneless, the traffic is monumental and the retention on some servers is amazing...
Back then we didn't have live distros so you couldn't just boot off the CD to try it out, you had to commit to installing it in a fashion first and the linux for windows method was the best way for newbies
so I'm safe then with "54321"...
The Hardware's not fucking doing this though... the hardware is merely a touchscreen that is providing a series of coordinates that the SOFTWARE IS USING just like a computer mouse, trackball, graphics tablet or whatever would do for the software to act on... put the exact same software on a laptop or desktop computer and drive it with a mouse and it does the same thing... it's fucking obvious and should NEVER HAVE BEEN PATENTED IN THE FIRST PLACE... the only thing that could ever be patented about the touchscreen is just exactly how it provides the coordinates from the touch input
I'm getting really pissed off with software patents where they take an idea and add with a computer or with a touchscreen or whatever and expect it to be patentable...
fuck off, you lost... now let's move on... Start competing on features like ease of use, interoperability, openness and some genuine innovation... and stop trying to use the courts to protect your lunch...
don't need a camera... just need sensors set up at a distance from the lights like we have in the UK and the traffic control system programmed correctly... our lights will change to green when you approach and there's no traffic sensed on the lanes that are already green which will then turn red... Some of our lights are set up so that priority routes always return to green
Hmmm wonder if they given the Libyans any ITAR restricted stuff... If they have and they haven't got the proper agreement in place, then they're in deep doo-doo... Canadians or not...
but they will be relying on their ability to stonewall you into the poorhouse with their hordes of lawyers
you were lucky... I had to fake my death to escape from Reader's Digest...
Surely any event that could eject material from earth with sufficient energy to escape Earth's gravity well would tend to melt the ejecta at the same time, so the bacteria would have to be seriously hardy...
to cause massive chaos using the European Community Design patents... which are subject to no review at all when being granted, merely have the right forms been filled in in the correct manner... the referenced Community Design being the one responsible for Samsung being blocked from selling their Galaxy items in Germany as they purportedly look like a thing thing with rounded corners that Apple have registered a community design for...