I am and always have been an Englishman, I left edumacation in 1991 and I was always taught the 'billion' as a million million and that the US used a thousand million for it.
The National Curriculum was in force before I left education.
Were my teachers a little behind or were they die-hard old-timers who refused change?
Another possible explanation is that your 'officially' is [citation needed].
USB booting is a luxury that still hasn't come to my house.
Even having 8 IDE devices onboard isn't enough when you just want to boot off your own USB recovery key.
Chainloader doesn't work until you have USB support, and VMware isn't always the best test environment.
That must be how they found out how to wire in the 8086 daughter board on the BBC Master that I had.
512K RAM and a fully working IBM/compatible PC.
The day my school got a PC (on a push in cart, orange/black monochrome monitor, Schneider 8086), I actually showed the teacher how to use it!
That and learning most of C/PM on an old Amstrad 8256 before the BBC and finding that transferable skills were in low supply amongst my friends.
Oh to go back to the old days when my peers were ranting about their Amigas, Ataris and and I was using MS-DOS lol
I used to be a member of a chat community that had forums hosted on DelphiForums and the single largest demographic that used them was 30-50 year old mothers/housewives.
This group used to ask me for advice on creating "sigs" and which program to use.
They all thought that Paint Shop Pro, because it had a slightly shallower learning curve was the one for them, but I told them that the extra initial effort required to learn PhotoShop was worth it, to save learning the whole package from scratch when they outgrew PSP.
This happened regularly. For people that read all the tutorials and want to use alpha transparencies, channels, layers and all the whistles and bells, then animate them, you really do need to use PS.
I suspect that things haven't changed that much, and there are still hundreds of thousands of middle-white American women sitting around all day at home making pretty pictures that sparkle and twinkle and look all "ooh! Shiney" to take up bandwidth on their posts to a forum about a virtual world.
This to me is the definition of a home user, ymmv.
VMware Server is working perfectly under gOS on my SO's machine, which has 512Mb. Obviously this makes the VM a fairly slow machine because you can't give it the whole 512, but it runs.
Until recently she was completely unaware of FOSS, now she uses openSuSE on this laptop, and on the back of that I dropped gOS onto her desktop machine when the WinXP registry crashed AGAIN.
I threw VMware Server on there and installed XP Home under it with the XP key on the side of her beige box so that she can use Photoshop.
Except for having gOS tell her that she had to edit the apt repository file to get rid of "googlepc.com" and change it to "thinkgos.com" she has been able to run and update everything on there.
To be fair, she isn't a power user, but she has OOo and Gmail, so there isn't a lot of difference for her.
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Like that?
Of course, you could just add a few, unless you're talking about blowing up the President or selling cocaine, then you might want to keep quiet, and not attract their attention to harmless posts.
Click around, you might want to alter your.SIG to screw them up =)
From the site:
Live Documents provides knowledge workers with the flexibility to collaboratively develop and manage documents directly with the tools they normally use to create content - namely Microsoft Office
This site is an extension for office, not a replacement.
Basically they are giving us GoogleDocs with the work done on our own PCs, not the thin-client of Google. This should improve sales of Office, not reduce them.
only place around here that I could find one of the Cold Heat soldering irons
Got mine off ThinkGeek a few years ago, but I wouldn't dream of using it for putting things back together, it gets used for tinning wires, taking LEDs out of hubs and things like that. In no way is it a precision tool.
The ISP is in control of the DNS server *and* the proxy server.
So never use your ISP's DNS and let your friends use your SSH tunnel while you use theirs.
Never log connections, delete router and all other caches.
Or just grab Tor and deny everything =)
I think this person may be from the United States of America, you may have heard of them? They almost learned English, but not quite. A pillow sham is the equivalent in American of the good old English "pillow case" =)
The liability rests with the retailer for ensuring that what they sell you is what is advertised. If I were to tell you that I had a bridge for sale and told you the name of it was "London Bridge" and you got a crappy little bridge made from a few pieces of stone, I would be telling the truth, but if I showed you a picture of Tower Bridge in London and called it "London Bridge" you could sue me to high heaven for misrepresenting what I ended up buying.
The box shows a hard drive, the paperwork (receipt) shows a hard drive, by extension you expect to be able to store more than the 10 commandments on it and they sold it as fit for a certain purpose.
A box of tiles does not match what was handed over in the transaction and therefore the onus is on the store to take back the goods and (under UK law: give full money back) or at the least (I believe in the States) give a store credit to the value of the monies paid.
The store can then begin the process of chasing up the person that defrauded them out of a perfectly working hard drive and replaced it with a few lousy tiles. Not that they will have much luck, plausible deniability as has been stated in other posts goes a long way to establishing innocence.
I disagree. MS aren't exterminating at the moment, they are buying up/into bits of everything because of the gouging they are taking from "us". ODF, Firefox, EU antitrust, Vista backlash, bad press from upgrades, OLPC, Dell+Linux, IBM/Novell, SCOX losing; they haven't been doing so well recently, have they?
In the true spirit of DOS they are buying into emerging technologies to future-proof their revenue streams.
God save us if they ever do develop MS-Linux (or Lindows). Every red cent will fall into their pockets from every datacentre in the world when sysadmins have to do it the MS way.
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I am and always have been an Englishman, I left edumacation in 1991 and I was always taught the 'billion' as a million million and that the US used a thousand million for it.
The National Curriculum was in force before I left education.
Were my teachers a little behind or were they die-hard old-timers who refused change?
Another possible explanation is that your 'officially' is [citation needed].
Oh, see what you did there!
You tried to start a nature/nurture debate without using the words!
+1 troll, +1 insightful, +1 informative!
Gosh darnit, next thing you know people round here will be "thinking" for themselves lol!!!111one!
I would bathe in glorious recollection rather than trying it out on your (assumed) nice new P4/Athlon system.
I wasn't given this advice and found that DOS4GW (as I remember) just wasn't made for 1GHz+ machines.
One to avoid.
Here: This link will direct you to your preferences settings and you can enable sigs from there.
Why not put a link to this in your sig and hope that enough people use it properly to make ECHELON unfeasable?
And what would the cars be burning otherwise?
Oil is a fossil fuel too, using coal twice saves on burning gasoline once.
USB booting is a luxury that still hasn't come to my house.
Even having 8 IDE devices onboard isn't enough when you just want to boot off your own USB recovery key.
Chainloader doesn't work until you have USB support, and VMware isn't always the best test environment.
That must be how they found out how to wire in the 8086 daughter board on the BBC Master that I had.
512K RAM and a fully working IBM/compatible PC.
The day my school got a PC (on a push in cart, orange/black monochrome monitor, Schneider 8086), I actually showed the teacher how to use it!
That and learning most of C/PM on an old Amstrad 8256 before the BBC and finding that transferable skills were in low supply amongst my friends.
Oh to go back to the old days when my peers were ranting about their Amigas, Ataris and and I was using MS-DOS lol
I used to be a member of a chat community that had forums hosted on DelphiForums and the single largest demographic that used them was 30-50 year old mothers/housewives.
This group used to ask me for advice on creating "sigs" and which program to use.
They all thought that Paint Shop Pro, because it had a slightly shallower learning curve was the one for them, but I told them that the extra initial effort required to learn PhotoShop was worth it, to save learning the whole package from scratch when they outgrew PSP.
This happened regularly. For people that read all the tutorials and want to use alpha transparencies, channels, layers and all the whistles and bells, then animate them, you really do need to use PS.
I suspect that things haven't changed that much, and there are still hundreds of thousands of middle-white American women sitting around all day at home making pretty pictures that sparkle and twinkle and look all "ooh! Shiney" to take up bandwidth on their posts to a forum about a virtual world.
This to me is the definition of a home user, ymmv.
Until recently she was completely unaware of FOSS, now she uses openSuSE on this laptop, and on the back of that I dropped gOS onto her desktop machine when the WinXP registry crashed AGAIN.
I threw VMware Server on there and installed XP Home under it with the XP key on the side of her beige box so that she can use Photoshop.
Except for having gOS tell her that she had to edit the apt repository file to get rid of "googlepc.com" and change it to "thinkgos.com" she has been able to run and update everything on there.
To be fair, she isn't a power user, but she has OOo and Gmail, so there isn't a lot of difference for her.
Of course, this would be an even better idea if it had BlueTooth inside too, but that is just a pipe-dream.
I'm popular today.
12 minutes response, I must be the Anti-Christ lol
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Like that?
Of course, you could just add a few, unless you're talking about blowing up the President or selling cocaine, then you might want to keep quiet, and not attract their attention to harmless posts.
Click around, you might want to alter your .SIG to screw them up =)
Wikipedia has a good article on ECHELON.
This site is an extension for office, not a replacement.
Basically they are giving us GoogleDocs with the work done on our own PCs, not the thin-client of Google. This should improve sales of Office, not reduce them.
Summary is misleading, story is bunkum.
This is online collaboration within Office.
Or you could use Password Hasher for Firefox?
Works for me =)
Wouldn't a second sensor in your mouse, or another wire to a chip in there be a fantastic way to provide entropy?
Got mine off ThinkGeek a few years ago, but I wouldn't dream of using it for putting things back together, it gets used for tinning wires, taking LEDs out of hubs and things like that. In no way is it a precision tool.
So never use your ISP's DNS and let your friends use your SSH tunnel while you use theirs.
Never log connections, delete router and all other caches.
Or just grab Tor and deny everything =)
Dr House, is that you?
HTH
The liability rests with the retailer for ensuring that what they sell you is what is advertised. If I were to tell you that I had a bridge for sale and told you the name of it was "London Bridge" and you got a crappy little bridge made from a few pieces of stone, I would be telling the truth, but if I showed you a picture of Tower Bridge in London and called it "London Bridge" you could sue me to high heaven for misrepresenting what I ended up buying.
The box shows a hard drive, the paperwork (receipt) shows a hard drive, by extension you expect to be able to store more than the 10 commandments on it and they sold it as fit for a certain purpose.
A box of tiles does not match what was handed over in the transaction and therefore the onus is on the store to take back the goods and (under UK law: give full money back) or at the least (I believe in the States) give a store credit to the value of the monies paid.
The store can then begin the process of chasing up the person that defrauded them out of a perfectly working hard drive and replaced it with a few lousy tiles. Not that they will have much luck, plausible deniability as has been stated in other posts goes a long way to establishing innocence.
Very old SciFi books, but entertaining 16 years ago.
In the true spirit of DOS they are buying into emerging technologies to future-proof their revenue streams.
God save us if they ever do develop MS-Linux (or Lindows). Every red cent will fall into their pockets from every datacentre in the world when sysadmins have to do it the MS way.
There, fixed that for ya.