the money saved in taxes? it goes into paying dividends on shares and wages etc. of employees... all of these get taxed anyway... If they were paying higher taxes, then they wouldn't be paying duch good wages or employing so many people or paying such good dividends on their shares... and people would still be moaning...
The real problem with Linux, and I'm talking the major distros that have been targeting desktop users for years, is that hardware and software vendors refuse to pick up the platform (for the most part). Until the vendors start releasing for Linux what users are already using in Windows (Photoshop, anyone? Yes, I love GiMP too, but some people don't) then Linux will have a smaller market share.
most likely because they depend upon Microsoft's market development funds... start supporting Linux and find you fail to qualify for the big handbacks... difficulty is proving that this IS happening.
anti-tamper would have had thin copper wire with little lead seals that were embossed with an inspection code, what you saw would have been standard anti-vibration wire-locking to prevent bolts and nuts from undoing themselves.
Not that many people are willing to pay $5k/seat, so it went bust.
Concorde did NOT go bust... it was still a viable business model at the seat price... it got killed because it had a crash that was mightily spectacular and BA dropped the route and kept them grounded long enough for their airworthiness certs to lapse... then some shenanigans happened between BA and the manufacturer to prevent the other operator who wanted to operate the aircraft from getting them re-certed... BA did not like the idea of a non-national cheap airline running the super-duper VIP service across the Atlantic
chart CDs used to have at least 20 tracks on them... now they've been dropping the number of tracks right down to just enough to qualify as a CD for the CD chart...
The future's so bright I gotta wear shades, not. "Democratic" societies are sort of a joke. The masses are easily distracted with a combination of glittering objects and FUD while they are increasingly put under the boot of the powerful.
something in the news disturbing you? here's some X-factor and Big-Brother gossip to distract you... why Gamu is getting deported, it's just not fair, the contestants had already been picked...
oh and while we're at it, heres a spoiler on Coronation Street's upcoming "disaster" episode...
oh pretty much guaranteed... they'd "upgrade" the server interface to require Silverlight to connect and then make sure it uses silverlight features that moolight doesn't have...
Article neglects to mention that the processor prices are xxx dollars "each" if ordered in quantities of 1000 units or more not xxx dollars for 1000 units... and summary merely repeats the mistake...
the IEEE is supposed to be an institute that furthers the needs and status of institute members, that is the chartered engineers themselves NOT the employers. It should be working to uphold the status of the chartered engineer in society and ensuring the experience and qualifications required to gain chartered status are respected and valued appropriately.
Please explain how the government mandating energy efficiency is equivalent to the government screwing us.
yet again, they mandated a technology instead of mandating an efficiency target. It should have been a lumens per watt target and left up to the market as to how that was achieved...
ah, wondered why it was getting difficult to get through to PB these days... and several other torrent sites seem to be having problems as well... very dastardly attack...
For a coding job there should only be one standard: code that you have already written. The applicants should have to submit the code for a fully functional application that they have written themselves from start to finish and that code should be submitted to several of your best programmers, who can grade it.
stuff the code... it's the design that matters... coding can be farmed out to codemonkeys... good designers are worth their weight in gold... get specifying the structure properly, the modules required, the interfaces...
get the design right early and the code basically writes itself... and is far, far easier to maintain (provided the documentation is kept up to date and not written "after-the-fact" just to keep the QA guys happy)... bugs me right out when I see guys go into a coding frenzy and only think of the documentation afterwards...
ps. I don't code, I'm a systems analyst. It's my job to analyze the customer's requirements and write the specification which our software guys then do their designs to... and then after they've got working code, for me to integrate it and make sure it fills the requirements. We provide aircraft emulations which the customer uses to train their customers technicians and mechanics on saving having to use real aircraft.
It seems they are talking about recording 1080p, not viewing 1080p. You don't have to view your recorded videos on the phone.
it would be nice to be able to play it back onto a hooked up TV straight after taking it... that still requires the device be able to playback 1080p, which is far easier than encoding it...
"Funny you should mention that..." I blew this morning trying to get some old PS2 hacking apps running on Wine. In the end I just installed w98 on a spare box. Wine is classic YMMV. It's a good, worthy project, but man, you just can't _count_ that's it's going to deal with even small old VB6 apps ahead of time. Use restraint for recommending it unless you've done exactly what's being discussed.
what seriously pisses me off with WINE is that something works with one version of it, but breaks in the next... the database is almost useless with regards to being kept up to date and I'm too old for all this hassle now... and there's TOO much emphasis on having the very latest game running on it to the detriment of making sure other games don't become broken by changes made to support the latest and greatest...
not only a non-starter, but I hate having windows forced down my throat as being "free"... it's NOT, you're paying for it... and I, for one, refuse to pay for something I do not want on the device... I want to be able to buy it without an OS... not even Android... I just want driver disks made available or available for download
always amuses me when in various forums, people post scans of documents or rips of audio or video that are patently not theirs to make a copy of and then complain quite indignantly when someone else lifts that.pdf/.jpg/.avi or whatever and re-ups it in another post/torrent... as if you can claim copyright for something that you made illegally in the first place...
they're really just bitching because their original upload isn't getting as many download points/hits as it could get...
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the money saved in taxes? it goes into paying dividends on shares and wages etc. of employees... all of these get taxed anyway... If they were paying higher taxes, then they wouldn't be paying duch good wages or employing so many people or paying such good dividends on their shares... and people would still be moaning...
most likely because they depend upon Microsoft's market development funds... start supporting Linux and find you fail to qualify for the big handbacks... difficulty is proving that this IS happening.
anti-tamper would have had thin copper wire with little lead seals that were embossed with an inspection code, what you saw would have been standard anti-vibration wire-locking to prevent bolts and nuts from undoing themselves.
MOD parent up, it is most definitely NOT offtopic...
Concorde did NOT go bust... it was still a viable business model at the seat price... it got killed because it had a crash that was mightily spectacular and BA dropped the route and kept them grounded long enough for their airworthiness certs to lapse... then some shenanigans happened between BA and the manufacturer to prevent the other operator who wanted to operate the aircraft from getting them re-certed... BA did not like the idea of a non-national cheap airline running the super-duper VIP service across the Atlantic
chart CDs used to have at least 20 tracks on them... now they've been dropping the number of tracks right down to just enough to qualify as a CD for the CD chart...
something in the news disturbing you? here's some X-factor and Big-Brother gossip to distract you... why Gamu is getting deported, it's just not fair, the contestants had already been picked...
oh and while we're at it, heres a spoiler on Coronation Street's upcoming "disaster" episode...
reminds me of this
should have been doing this ages ago, but yet again, no pressure to do so while supplies were cheap
oh pretty much guaranteed... they'd "upgrade" the server interface to require Silverlight to connect and then make sure it uses silverlight features that moolight doesn't have...
slashdot having problems... target website holding fine... "In Soviet Russia, Buran slashdots you..."
Article neglects to mention that the processor prices are xxx dollars "each" if ordered in quantities of 1000 units or more not xxx dollars for 1000 units... and summary merely repeats the mistake...
processor chips are not really this cheap...
the IEEE is supposed to be an institute that furthers the needs and status of institute members, that is the chartered engineers themselves NOT the employers. It should be working to uphold the status of the chartered engineer in society and ensuring the experience and qualifications required to gain chartered status are respected and valued appropriately.
so it ain't gonna happen... the lobbyists will ensure it dies before ever getting debated...
yet again, they mandated a technology instead of mandating an efficiency target. It should have been a lumens per watt target and left up to the market as to how that was achieved...
you need to deploy Adblock Plus AND Noscript!!!
ah, wondered why it was getting difficult to get through to PB these days... and several other torrent sites seem to be having problems as well... very dastardly attack...
in the article... anyone got a better link?
stuff the code... it's the design that matters... coding can be farmed out to codemonkeys... good designers are worth their weight in gold... get specifying the structure properly, the modules required, the interfaces...
get the design right early and the code basically writes itself... and is far, far easier to maintain (provided the documentation is kept up to date and not written "after-the-fact" just to keep the QA guys happy)... bugs me right out when I see guys go into a coding frenzy and only think of the documentation afterwards...
ps. I don't code, I'm a systems analyst. It's my job to analyze the customer's requirements and write the specification which our software guys then do their designs to... and then after they've got working code, for me to integrate it and make sure it fills the requirements. We provide aircraft emulations which the customer uses to train their customers technicians and mechanics on saving having to use real aircraft.
it would be nice to be able to play it back onto a hooked up TV straight after taking it... that still requires the device be able to playback 1080p, which is far easier than encoding it...
what seriously pisses me off with WINE is that something works with one version of it, but breaks in the next... the database is almost useless with regards to being kept up to date and I'm too old for all this hassle now... and there's TOO much emphasis on having the very latest game running on it to the detriment of making sure other games don't become broken by changes made to support the latest and greatest...
not only a non-starter, but I hate having windows forced down my throat as being "free"... it's NOT, you're paying for it... and I, for one, refuse to pay for something I do not want on the device... I want to be able to buy it without an OS... not even Android... I just want driver disks made available or available for download
they're really just bitching because their original upload isn't getting as many download points/hits as it could get...
please ignore the above, I replied to the wrong post... arghh!!! damn this stupid posting timer...