So I have to pay £90 for one of these things next time my passport runs out? And not forgetting the family, for what exactly? I have a new style driving licence with the photo of me on it, just like the Euro one, the only difference is that if I need to use the licence as ID I have to bring the paper part WITHOUT my photo.
So, my driving licence isn't good enough ID, my passport isn't good enough (so why do the US accept it) and I have to have a new form of ID; which I have to pay for. I for one hope that I will be working on a gov. contract when my passport expires and I have to have a new passport (and so ID card) and I can flat refuse until somebody else parts with their hard earned cash.
An absolute waste of time and money.
And while I am at it, £90 covers the setup, design, production and other admin/gov costs - I am almost sure they will be simple to copy...
There is a simple explination though, the cars with greater than 1 ton load capacity are not subject to the same car tax rules as they are classed as commercial vehicles, a lot of people at my last company changed to the huge trucks that are littering the UK now as their company car tax was pretty much eradicated as a result.
I think the rules change in 2007 so there is no incentive to have them then, given how unsafe, poulluting and poor to drive they are I can't wait to see them go away when the tax loophole is closed.
Why a terrorist? I am more concerned about the recent crime in the UK of stealing number plates and fitting them to another (possibly idential) car, this is happening more and more in the UK, there are a lot of automated cameras for speeding etc that are used to send the penalties to the owner of the car. I for one am looking forward to going to court for somebody elses driving.
And as for the big brother aspect...
Yes they should, my general experience of Security teams is that they set security standards and policies, then they audit them. They look to the admins for best practive and to actually do the work. Security going on stike would probably have vey little impact to a SME, some documentation wouldn't get writter and rather than having to jump through a hoop of asking security if Apache X was deployed would they have a problem. The typical answer is, yes deploy it but it's opening up a access path to your server and there *could* be a problem, it's a job in ass covering with very little value to the business 99% of the time as admins tend to know and implement security anyway.
I have to agree that windows didn't really get sold too well here, also the question "What's the strangest problem you have seen?", the tester just looked at his boss as if to say "I can't tell them most of the crap I see everyday, have you got something?"
Oh yea, some temperatures went up and we were like, dude there's a fire.
I also enjoyed "Do you know what the % of browsers hit the site?", his answer "Oh, yes" big grin. "SO what are the figures?", "errm, well we have a team to do that, I don't actually know that".... Hmm, came over that they don't want us to know.
Anyway, I would really struggle working with this guy,
There are plenty of cars in the UK that have a govenor - 155mph is the limit as insurance companies enforce this, my car has one and it works too. I have no idea why 155 is the limit at the fastest allowed by law is 70mph, but then I could drive to germany and there's no limit on the autobahn.
Good news about AMD for Sun, IBM have a bigger research budget than Sun's turnover, by doing this they stand a chance at keeping up in performance terms. Although virtualisation on i386 is junk compaired to PPC, I don't want to hear about Containers, they are nothing more than glorified BSD jails, IBM have the right idea with hypervisor - but then they know this after 30 odd years of mainframe.
Hey it's me almost... I drive a BMW 325Ci, it drinks fuel 29.5mpg is normal. However I bought this car from new and now it's paid for. I currently use about £200/month keeping it in fuel.
If I were to go and buy a new car to replace this car, I would want to reduce my fuel consumption. However I would have to start paying for a car again, lets just say that I bought a car that did 60mpg (not likely, especially in the UK where we sit in traffic more than move), anyway I am now saving £100/month and the environment is better. But for me to be financially unaffected I would need to have a car that the repayments were only £100/month, so my current trade in vaule is about £11000, if I use this as a start deposit I can go for something about £14600 - assuming 0% interest on my loan. Then I need to think about the deppreciation of the new car v's old car, clearly I would lose more on the new car but how much?
Anyway as the prius does about 60mpg at best, the problem is that the base price of this car is just under £18000, without depreciation I am worse off buying a new car due to the tradin, old/new fuel costs and new car costs.
Also, my current car has already been built. I only have the environmental impact of the car now to worry about, a new car leaves the current cars impact still there plus the new car.
To the the concept of buying a new car to save on fuel just doesn't work even with the UKs high fuel prices. Even the argument that the new car is more reliable is just stuipd, I recently had a LandRover salesman trying to tell me that it would be so much better to buy a new Discovery (about £800/month) as the reliability aspect would save me cash - I guess it might if I had to pay about £8k a year fixing my car, last year I spent about £500 on maintenance!
The new trains rolled out by Virgin in the UK have actually been shown to be less economical than a small car, they are very nice trains. By giving the passenger more comfort the efficiency has dropped quite a lot.
Hmm, I had the pleasure of paying £1.03/litre last week at Staffordshire Services on the M6.
On the otherhand we have the possibility of public transport, however the reality of it is that it doesn't always work. I had a collegue that worked on the same site that I had to in Skemlerdale, I commute from south Wigan - about 16 miles. With public transport this would take something like 4 hours, he could use public transport from Birmingham (100 miles or so) and it was about 2 hours. The most economical method was/is my bicycle but the hills, wind and rain really take the pleasure out of this.
The Accord Hybrid is pathetic, I get better milage from my BMW 325Ci, I never turn te air con off, and don't drive in an economical fashion. I get roughly 30mpg, however on a trip to France a couple of years aog with 4 people in the car and all the luggage I was doing between 90-120mph for the majority of the journey and pushed my milage up to about 37mph even with the extra load and the air con on full.
Surely they are using something like TSM for the backups, the data can be encryped on the tapes and there would be an onsite copy of the data on tape as well as the live data. Farily simple to do and there's no excuse for not doing this with sensative data.
I am amazed by the number of people against overclocking. If you get a new CPU and overclock, well I would guess you are in the world where you are happy to play with hardware just to see what it can do. If it breaks it's your own fault and presumably if you are happy to try you don't mind loosing the money - if the cpu life is shortened do you care, probably not as you are going to be a early adopter of the next quickest speeds!
I kind of like the look of marvin, he's not the old TV marvin who looks depressing anyway. Rather a cheerful lookijng chap with a head to cope with his brain the size of a planet.
However despite his looks he is still a manic depressive.
It's not only about what you want to do but also what you are good at. It's no good hoping to be a profesional sportsman for example if you are useless at your chosen sport no matter how much you like it.
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So I have to pay £90 for one of these things next time my passport runs out? And not forgetting the family, for what exactly? I have a new style driving licence with the photo of me on it, just like the Euro one, the only difference is that if I need to use the licence as ID I have to bring the paper part WITHOUT my photo. So, my driving licence isn't good enough ID, my passport isn't good enough (so why do the US accept it) and I have to have a new form of ID; which I have to pay for. I for one hope that I will be working on a gov. contract when my passport expires and I have to have a new passport (and so ID card) and I can flat refuse until somebody else parts with their hard earned cash. An absolute waste of time and money. And while I am at it, £90 covers the setup, design, production and other admin/gov costs - I am almost sure they will be simple to copy...
And I use vi rather than vim to avoid the syntax colours slowing down my system.
What on earth is an AIX mainframe? Anyway, why was the AIX box running badly?
There is a simple explination though, the cars with greater than 1 ton load capacity are not subject to the same car tax rules as they are classed as commercial vehicles, a lot of people at my last company changed to the huge trucks that are littering the UK now as their company car tax was pretty much eradicated as a result.
I think the rules change in 2007 so there is no incentive to have them then, given how unsafe, poulluting and poor to drive they are I can't wait to see them go away when the tax loophole is closed.
Quirk? Damn right I want to see the evidence against me in court.
especially if their wife has access to the credit cards...
Why a terrorist? I am more concerned about the recent crime in the UK of stealing number plates and fitting them to another (possibly idential) car, this is happening more and more in the UK, there are a lot of automated cameras for speeding etc that are used to send the penalties to the owner of the car. I for one am looking forward to going to court for somebody elses driving. And as for the big brother aspect...
Yes they should, my general experience of Security teams is that they set security standards and policies, then they audit them. They look to the admins for best practive and to actually do the work. Security going on stike would probably have vey little impact to a SME, some documentation wouldn't get writter and rather than having to jump through a hoop of asking security if Apache X was deployed would they have a problem. The typical answer is, yes deploy it but it's opening up a access path to your server and there *could* be a problem, it's a job in ass covering with very little value to the business 99% of the time as admins tend to know and implement security anyway.
Which one didn't wash his hair ;)
I have to agree that windows didn't really get sold too well here, also the question "What's the strangest problem you have seen?", the tester just looked at his boss as if to say "I can't tell them most of the crap I see everyday, have you got something?"
Oh yea, some temperatures went up and we were like, dude there's a fire.
I also enjoyed "Do you know what the % of browsers hit the site?", his answer "Oh, yes" big grin. "SO what are the figures?", "errm, well we have a team to do that, I don't actually know that".... Hmm, came over that they don't want us to know.
Anyway, I would really struggle working with this guy,
There are plenty of cars in the UK that have a govenor - 155mph is the limit as insurance companies enforce this, my car has one and it works too. I have no idea why 155 is the limit at the fastest allowed by law is 70mph, but then I could drive to germany and there's no limit on the autobahn.
Good news about AMD for Sun, IBM have a bigger research budget than Sun's turnover, by doing this they stand a chance at keeping up in performance terms. Although virtualisation on i386 is junk compaired to PPC, I don't want to hear about Containers, they are nothing more than glorified BSD jails, IBM have the right idea with hypervisor - but then they know this after 30 odd years of mainframe.
So.... Microsoft to deploy Linux on the desktop because their nearest desktop OS competitor has?
Hey it's me almost... I drive a BMW 325Ci, it drinks fuel 29.5mpg is normal. However I bought this car from new and now it's paid for. I currently use about £200/month keeping it in fuel. If I were to go and buy a new car to replace this car, I would want to reduce my fuel consumption. However I would have to start paying for a car again, lets just say that I bought a car that did 60mpg (not likely, especially in the UK where we sit in traffic more than move), anyway I am now saving £100/month and the environment is better. But for me to be financially unaffected I would need to have a car that the repayments were only £100/month, so my current trade in vaule is about £11000, if I use this as a start deposit I can go for something about £14600 - assuming 0% interest on my loan. Then I need to think about the deppreciation of the new car v's old car, clearly I would lose more on the new car but how much? Anyway as the prius does about 60mpg at best, the problem is that the base price of this car is just under £18000, without depreciation I am worse off buying a new car due to the tradin, old/new fuel costs and new car costs. Also, my current car has already been built. I only have the environmental impact of the car now to worry about, a new car leaves the current cars impact still there plus the new car. To the the concept of buying a new car to save on fuel just doesn't work even with the UKs high fuel prices. Even the argument that the new car is more reliable is just stuipd, I recently had a LandRover salesman trying to tell me that it would be so much better to buy a new Discovery (about £800/month) as the reliability aspect would save me cash - I guess it might if I had to pay about £8k a year fixing my car, last year I spent about £500 on maintenance!
The new trains rolled out by Virgin in the UK have actually been shown to be less economical than a small car, they are very nice trains. By giving the passenger more comfort the efficiency has dropped quite a lot.
Hmm, I had the pleasure of paying £1.03/litre last week at Staffordshire Services on the M6. On the otherhand we have the possibility of public transport, however the reality of it is that it doesn't always work. I had a collegue that worked on the same site that I had to in Skemlerdale, I commute from south Wigan - about 16 miles. With public transport this would take something like 4 hours, he could use public transport from Birmingham (100 miles or so) and it was about 2 hours. The most economical method was/is my bicycle but the hills, wind and rain really take the pleasure out of this.
The Accord Hybrid is pathetic, I get better milage from my BMW 325Ci, I never turn te air con off, and don't drive in an economical fashion. I get roughly 30mpg, however on a trip to France a couple of years aog with 4 people in the car and all the luggage I was doing between 90-120mph for the majority of the journey and pushed my milage up to about 37mph even with the extra load and the air con on full.
Sadly I realised the typo just as I was hitting submit... mind you I was sat infront of a load of unix machines at the time.
Simple solution, buy online and then your protected by the distance selling regulations and can send the unix back for whatever reason you like.
I'll be in the queue for a p550 entry level system please ;)
Are IBM withdrawing the OpenPower Line?
Surely they are using something like TSM for the backups, the data can be encryped on the tapes and there would be an onsite copy of the data on tape as well as the live data. Farily simple to do and there's no excuse for not doing this with sensative data.
lucky for me I have a crap memory and have to wait until October...
I am amazed by the number of people against overclocking. If you get a new CPU and overclock, well I would guess you are in the world where you are happy to play with hardware just to see what it can do. If it breaks it's your own fault and presumably if you are happy to try you don't mind loosing the money - if the cpu life is shortened do you care, probably not as you are going to be a early adopter of the next quickest speeds!
I kind of like the look of marvin, he's not the old TV marvin who looks depressing anyway. Rather a cheerful lookijng chap with a head to cope with his brain the size of a planet. However despite his looks he is still a manic depressive.
It's not only about what you want to do but also what you are good at. It's no good hoping to be a profesional sportsman for example if you are useless at your chosen sport no matter how much you like it.