Though there is abviously no excuse for the cables that have been there for a while with newer cables you often find that they have been layed straight through what was once an anchorage as they get closer to shore and nobody has "gotten around" to updating any of the charts yet. I had this situation in the Azores a while back when we anchored in what was shown in all charts and publications to be the only anchorage available only to be met on the dock by a not so friendly police man shouting something in Portuguese along the lines of we just laid a load of fiber optic cables through there and your anchor is on top of them... of course we moved immediately into the port which was what we planed to do in the afternoon but when we asked the Harbour Master why there had been no notice to mariners about the new cabled a shrug of the shoulders was the most informative answer we could get.
I took part in a trial using the BGan on board a vessel to see if the technology was worth putting into a dome and selling to boats (as opposed to what we did and held on to the rail for dear life trying not to get anything wet or lose the satellite connection).
I was very impressed with it and Journalists in the field use it a lot I have heard and though a pain in the arse to use on a small boat, on a stable platform it was pretty good. Especially as once you have charged the thing up the battery lasted longer than my laptop battery.
The line rental was pretty cheap as well if you set aside the inital cost of 2 or 3 thousand dollars if I remember rightly
no, granted there are free software packages for windows but what of those whom have already purchased licenses for software that isnt free?
wouldnt they then be in effect admiting they have wasted money and this wouldnt be good for business would it?
You have to bare in mind that alot of companies have invested alot of money into there Microsoft Windows Network with all there fancy graphics packages and what not.
If you have just finished signing a checking for nearly the value of the company on software licenses for your machines would you want to go to an open source operating system because some guy who works for you is moaning about spyware being stopped by the firewall.
in my opinion the best way to scare somebody into changing to open source software is to tell them about the spyware that is NOT being stopped by the firewall
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Though there is abviously no excuse for the cables that have been there for a while with newer cables you often find that they have been layed straight through what was once an anchorage as they get closer to shore and nobody has "gotten around" to updating any of the charts yet. I had this situation in the Azores a while back when we anchored in what was shown in all charts and publications to be the only anchorage available only to be met on the dock by a not so friendly police man shouting something in Portuguese along the lines of we just laid a load of fiber optic cables through there and your anchor is on top of them... of course we moved immediately into the port which was what we planed to do in the afternoon but when we asked the Harbour Master why there had been no notice to mariners about the new cabled a shrug of the shoulders was the most informative answer we could get.
I took part in a trial using the BGan on board a vessel to see if the technology was worth putting into a dome and selling to boats (as opposed to what we did and held on to the rail for dear life trying not to get anything wet or lose the satellite connection). I was very impressed with it and Journalists in the field use it a lot I have heard and though a pain in the arse to use on a small boat, on a stable platform it was pretty good. Especially as once you have charged the thing up the battery lasted longer than my laptop battery. The line rental was pretty cheap as well if you set aside the inital cost of 2 or 3 thousand dollars if I remember rightly
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From TFA "Astronomers at the Taipei Astronomical Museum said the tail of Lulin would be most visible during the time it moves closest to the Earth."
does it still work if its a dead spider plant?
no, granted there are free software packages for windows but what of those whom have already purchased licenses for software that isnt free? wouldnt they then be in effect admiting they have wasted money and this wouldnt be good for business would it?
You have to bare in mind that alot of companies have invested alot of money into there Microsoft Windows Network with all there fancy graphics packages and what not. If you have just finished signing a checking for nearly the value of the company on software licenses for your machines would you want to go to an open source operating system because some guy who works for you is moaning about spyware being stopped by the firewall. in my opinion the best way to scare somebody into changing to open source software is to tell them about the spyware that is NOT being stopped by the firewall
am i the only person who prefers big? :|
all these damm things are getting smaller and some mobile phones i cant see the screen anymore they need to be bigger not smaller