I once worked for a company and had 6 passwords to remember. Some had different rules on length/format, and I had to change them at least once a month (except 1).
I ended up formulating a system for my passwords, but generally people will write such things down.
No Information Security person has explained why changing passwords is more secure than not. The answer I've been given is "it's more secure".
In the 1970s, people replaced cars in a few years because they generally rusted and fell apart in a few years.
Nowadays, cars have more like a 10 year life span, particularly the Japanese and German cars.
But people still replace them. Partly it's about new features, sometimes it's oneupmanship, sometimes it's idiocy about "we'd better replace it after 3 years or it will start costing too much" (like spending money on parts is often a worst thing to do than replacing the car).
I'm glad people do, though. Allows people like me to get cheaper secondhand cars.
Can I ask a question - was the hardware "good" (like branded sound cards), or was it some super el cheapo sound card from some obscure company in Ulan Bator or somewhere?
I've had friends buy Windows machines from major manufacturers, and when the machine tanked and needed a reinstall of the HDD, finding the drivers was a pain.
Do you mean "It is the student's responsibility to learn about the world and interesting stuff" or "It is the student's responsibility to learn stuff being put to them, that they have no interest in, and often made even less interesting by teaching by rote"?
Personally, I learnt very little from school, except Maths, languages and history. The last of which, I only warmed to because I finally taught 20th century history, and was taught it by someone who was really fired up about teaching it, who made it relevant. I've learnt much more by my own studies later in life.
In the UK, there's a lot of talk about truancy, but no discussion about why kids don't want to be in school.
In the workplace, people often question how to motivate and reward staff, recognise that people have different skills and interests to each other, and yet school is built around a single view of what children should be doing.
I've been giving some thought to search engine referencing, and how XxX was a huge mistake, because searching for it would be difficult.
Something I read recently also suggested that the British model Jordan is going back to using her real name of Katie Price. Partly, the suggestion was that searching for "Jordan" brings back results about middle eastern countries etc.
It's also I think why companies are setting up with these crappo names like Accenture and Consignia - to give targeted search listings.
Copying is stealing, just in the same way that riding a bus or train without a ticket is stealing, you're illegally taking something you didn't pay for, even if all it is, is time, space, or rights.
Nope. Wrong. Riding a train without a ticket is riding a train without a ticket. Here in the UK there are specific laws that cover it. If it were stealing, it would simply be prosecuted under the various Theft acts.
Personally, I think this guy deserves to be punished, although a year in jail seems a bit harsh to me. I think he'd get the point after the first week.
There's also the risk that the person committing such a crime could move to a deeper level of criminality by a) Being shunned by employers b) mixing with more hardened prisoners.
Most people don't give a shit about copyright infringement - they consider it on a par with parking on a meter, not paying and driving off before the warden arrives.
People think they are not taking anything by performing copyright infringement, and even if they are taking, the image projected of the movie and music industry is that of multi-million dollar movie stars. You want people to feel sorry for them?
Personally, I cease using their sites if they don't support Mozilla/Firefox. I was going to switch my electricity supplier, and the site wouldn't work with Firefox, so I went elsewhere.
My only exception is Microsoft with Windows Update.
So, you want to see butchered movies? OK, that should be your right, but why do you want that?
If you are saying it's because you don't want swearing and nudity, don't rent a movie with swearing or nudity. There's quite a choice out there. Sure, there's often "obligatory swearing and nudity" to get a more adult rating, but what does this tell you about the artistic integrity of the filmmaker? You think you're going to pick up a great movie with that kind of thinking behind it?
If you want to get a movie suitable for kids, rent some Pixar or Spy Kids or Harry Potter.
The most dangerous thing about this invention is its limits. How do you know what will or will not be edited? OK, boobies and swearing maybe. How about discussions about drugs? or religion?
I used to play in bands, and most of the hard work was rehearsals. You learnt what the conductor wanted to a point that come performance time, you hardly had to follow him/her.
However, we did because there would be some subtle changes or maybe your section had picked up the volume.
As for just "getting the CD" part of the thing of the rehearsals is for the conductor to get their vision across to you, with the performance being the delivery of it. If you ignore the conductor on the night, but remember what he's told you before, his vision will still come through.
Sadly, R Griggs are moving production to China because of cost.
Don't hold your breath for a DM price cut, though.
There aren't many shoe companies left in Northamptonshire now, except some of the higher end companies like Barker, Loake and Church (all excellent but more pricey).
Thomas Hamilton wasn't a minor and could have bought a kitchen knife. If he was a risk, then either the officer who granted him a license should have been disciplined or the process amended. Instead, because handguns are quite a minority interest, most people don't care about the rights of people who want to shoot with them for sport.
As for the shooting, it's a particular type of shooting - target shooting with handguns. I don't know if you can still own something like a.22 or a.303 for target shooting, but a shotgun isn't really good for shooting.
For your information, I'm not a "gun nut". I don't shoot, and haven't since I was about 16. I'm not even interested in it. I just take the view that I have certain innocent pleasures in my life that I'd hate for someone to take away, so I'm willing to spend time defending other people's rights to their innocent pleasures.
I know, let's ban alcohol and restrict cars to 10mph. No-one will get hurt then.
I agree to some extent about the USA. It's a huge country and compared to say Western Europe, the sums aren't the same.
I've been to Paris, and in terms of journey time from my house in England to central Paris, I think it's about the same time to fly or go by train. Cost wise, there isn't much in it either. I prefer the train because I can read on my way to London and once I'm on the train to Paris, I'm settled for 3 hours. No baggage reclaim, no airport transfers.
Anyway, were I to go to Amsterdam (which would be Eurostar to Brussels, train to Amsterdam), I'd fly. I'd probably save a couple of hours on the journey. Amsterdam isn't that much further, remember, and when you start thinking about Europe stretching down to Greece or across to Russia, flying is really the only choice, unless you just want to do the trip.
Some countries have invested a lot in their rail system, most notably France with their excellent TGVs. I think it's a result of France being a large country with a lot of cities spread around. I wouldn't even think of doing an internal flight in France, when I could go Paris to Avignon in about 3 hours by TGV - that's about 400 miles.
One of the downers of planes is the inefficiency. Trains don't have to get off the ground and stay off the ground. They carry huge numbers of passengers. I don't know what the figures are for plane efficiency/passenger vs. trains (I'm interested if anyone knows).
The investment of time required by users to get something off the ground in Access is small. You could sit down with a fairly good book and have a single table database with input, reporting and filtering done very quickly.
It's fine for what it is - a spreadsheet, a tool for financial modelling (and making predictions, if you like, you just have to write the upper lower value stuff).
I've even used it for a database once. In pre-Access days, before VBA came in. It was to calculate percentages for mortgage interest - someone would put in the transactions, click a button and the interest would be shown. In some ways, for that application it was better than access.
I have however, seen customer complaint databases stored on an Excel spreadsheet....
In an updated version of American Psycho, Bateman would have an iPod, probably a number of them in different colours.
A lot of people want them, people who've never before had a desire to have an MP3 type player before. I don't believe that it's just because they're a well designed, well made player.
For decades in the UK, gun ownership has been very low. And yet our gun crime rate is almost insignificant. What do I think my chances are that if I'm mugged, that I will be mugged by someone with a gun? Less than 1%. There's a few areas of the UK where the percentage would rise, but even then, not by much.
Even when handguns were legal, hardly anyone had them. Shotguns are legal with a license, and of the hundreds of people I know, I can think of 2 people I know who own a shotgun. The first uses his for clay pigeon shooting, the second for his part time job as a vermin exterminator. Hardly anyone has them for protection.
After Thomas Hamilton dropped his science on those assembled, the people of the UK demanded a hand-gun ban.
A sad piece of knee-jerk legislation based on a single incident. A bit like banning alcohol because of one drink-drive death. When someone does a mass stabbing with a kitchen knife, will the government ban those?
Thousands of people who enjoyed shooting as a sport now have to travel to France to enjoy it. It's typical behaviour of people here. Never mind the people with minority interests, if it doesn't affect me, go ahead and ban it.
I wonder what would have happened if Thomas Hamilton hadn't turned the gun on himself. I doubt the legislation would have been passed. But in the absence of a person to blame, something else has to be found by the media.
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I ended up formulating a system for my passwords, but generally people will write such things down.
No Information Security person has explained why changing passwords is more secure than not. The answer I've been given is "it's more secure".
Nowadays, cars have more like a 10 year life span, particularly the Japanese and German cars.
But people still replace them. Partly it's about new features, sometimes it's oneupmanship, sometimes it's idiocy about "we'd better replace it after 3 years or it will start costing too much" (like spending money on parts is often a worst thing to do than replacing the car).
I'm glad people do, though. Allows people like me to get cheaper secondhand cars.
I've had friends buy Windows machines from major manufacturers, and when the machine tanked and needed a reinstall of the HDD, finding the drivers was a pain.
And which were worth reading? Been away from Sci-fi for too long.
Do you mean "It is the student's responsibility to learn about the world and interesting stuff" or "It is the student's responsibility to learn stuff being put to them, that they have no interest in, and often made even less interesting by teaching by rote"?
Personally, I learnt very little from school, except Maths, languages and history. The last of which, I only warmed to because I finally taught 20th century history, and was taught it by someone who was really fired up about teaching it, who made it relevant. I've learnt much more by my own studies later in life.
In the UK, there's a lot of talk about truancy, but no discussion about why kids don't want to be in school.
In the workplace, people often question how to motivate and reward staff, recognise that people have different skills and interests to each other, and yet school is built around a single view of what children should be doing.
Something I read recently also suggested that the British model Jordan is going back to using her real name of Katie Price. Partly, the suggestion was that searching for "Jordan" brings back results about middle eastern countries etc.
It's also I think why companies are setting up with these crappo names like Accenture and Consignia - to give targeted search listings.
... that would be inventions.
Since when is there legal protection on ideas?
Nope. Wrong. Riding a train without a ticket is riding a train without a ticket. Here in the UK there are specific laws that cover it. If it were stealing, it would simply be prosecuted under the various Theft acts.
If you want to discuss the morals of copyright infringement, please do, but it is not stealing.
No, you are wrong. It's copyright, trademark or patent infringement. Stealing would be walking into the projection room to take the film.
There's also the risk that the person committing such a crime could move to a deeper level of criminality by a) Being shunned by employers b) mixing with more hardened prisoners.
Most people don't give a shit about copyright infringement - they consider it on a par with parking on a meter, not paying and driving off before the warden arrives.
People think they are not taking anything by performing copyright infringement, and even if they are taking, the image projected of the movie and music industry is that of multi-million dollar movie stars. You want people to feel sorry for them?
Why do you think that drugs should not be legalised?
My only exception is Microsoft with Windows Update.
If you are saying it's because you don't want swearing and nudity, don't rent a movie with swearing or nudity. There's quite a choice out there. Sure, there's often "obligatory swearing and nudity" to get a more adult rating, but what does this tell you about the artistic integrity of the filmmaker? You think you're going to pick up a great movie with that kind of thinking behind it?
If you want to get a movie suitable for kids, rent some Pixar or Spy Kids or Harry Potter.
The most dangerous thing about this invention is its limits. How do you know what will or will not be edited? OK, boobies and swearing maybe. How about discussions about drugs? or religion?
However, we did because there would be some subtle changes or maybe your section had picked up the volume.
As for just "getting the CD" part of the thing of the rehearsals is for the conductor to get their vision across to you, with the performance being the delivery of it. If you ignore the conductor on the night, but remember what he's told you before, his vision will still come through.
Don't hold your breath for a DM price cut, though.
There aren't many shoe companies left in Northamptonshire now, except some of the higher end companies like Barker, Loake and Church (all excellent but more pricey).
As for the shooting, it's a particular type of shooting - target shooting with handguns. I don't know if you can still own something like a .22 or a .303 for target shooting, but a shotgun isn't really good for shooting.
For your information, I'm not a "gun nut". I don't shoot, and haven't since I was about 16. I'm not even interested in it. I just take the view that I have certain innocent pleasures in my life that I'd hate for someone to take away, so I'm willing to spend time defending other people's rights to their innocent pleasures.
I know, let's ban alcohol and restrict cars to 10mph. No-one will get hurt then.
I've been to Paris, and in terms of journey time from my house in England to central Paris, I think it's about the same time to fly or go by train. Cost wise, there isn't much in it either. I prefer the train because I can read on my way to London and once I'm on the train to Paris, I'm settled for 3 hours. No baggage reclaim, no airport transfers.
Anyway, were I to go to Amsterdam (which would be Eurostar to Brussels, train to Amsterdam), I'd fly. I'd probably save a couple of hours on the journey. Amsterdam isn't that much further, remember, and when you start thinking about Europe stretching down to Greece or across to Russia, flying is really the only choice, unless you just want to do the trip.
Some countries have invested a lot in their rail system, most notably France with their excellent TGVs. I think it's a result of France being a large country with a lot of cities spread around. I wouldn't even think of doing an internal flight in France, when I could go Paris to Avignon in about 3 hours by TGV - that's about 400 miles.
One of the downers of planes is the inefficiency. Trains don't have to get off the ground and stay off the ground. They carry huge numbers of passengers. I don't know what the figures are for plane efficiency/passenger vs. trains (I'm interested if anyone knows).
The investment of time required by users to get something off the ground in Access is small. You could sit down with a fairly good book and have a single table database with input, reporting and filtering done very quickly.
I've even used it for a database once. In pre-Access days, before VBA came in. It was to calculate percentages for mortgage interest - someone would put in the transactions, click a button and the interest would be shown. In some ways, for that application it was better than access.
I have however, seen customer complaint databases stored on an Excel spreadsheet....
A lot of people want them, people who've never before had a desire to have an MP3 type player before. I don't believe that it's just because they're a well designed, well made player.
Even when handguns were legal, hardly anyone had them. Shotguns are legal with a license, and of the hundreds of people I know, I can think of 2 people I know who own a shotgun. The first uses his for clay pigeon shooting, the second for his part time job as a vermin exterminator. Hardly anyone has them for protection.
A sad piece of knee-jerk legislation based on a single incident. A bit like banning alcohol because of one drink-drive death. When someone does a mass stabbing with a kitchen knife, will the government ban those?
Thousands of people who enjoyed shooting as a sport now have to travel to France to enjoy it. It's typical behaviour of people here. Never mind the people with minority interests, if it doesn't affect me, go ahead and ban it.
I wonder what would have happened if Thomas Hamilton hadn't turned the gun on himself. I doubt the legislation would have been passed. But in the absence of a person to blame, something else has to be found by the media.