Get real mate, hitler, IRA (US sponsored) and now AQ, barbaric yes worthy of off-topic? 'Course not
Bring 'em on bring 'em on.
Are we scared?
Piss off are we
As with others, it will be 2 years before you are genuinely useful to any company that you start with.
The real world is very different to academia.
Accept a crap job which can pay the bills for this time and get the experience, employers pay for experience not qualifications. The qualifications are a foot in the door, nothing else.
To some extent this is true, I have however managed to convert the kids to OO.o rather than MS Office, Ff rather than IE and various other items.
The school is looking at replacing MS Office with OO.o because to use it at school may encourage the parents to "pirate" a copy purely because of the cost.
(UK) You can buy a student licence but that states that only students can use it! Go figure that one huh, the comparison with a crack dealer is not too far from the truth.
Application choice has nothing to do with the OS
This is true but could you tell me which of those applications are bundled with the primary Windows install?
I know they come as standard on quite a few linux distro's but I was unaware that MS had started shipping them as well;-)
Don't forget that MS changed the EULA so that you are no longer allowed to benchmark windows and MS products without written permission. The only commercial people who can benchmark are those who will use a framework defined by MS.
Any other options will mean no study and no money.
Use bugger in the same way as wanker, it can be friendly, ';) you wanker'; aggressive ': you WANKER'; funny ':P You Wanker' etc.
Over this side of the pond the use of context is important; thus your tone of voice and body language adds different meaning to a word that can range from an insult to a salutation.
In this context the GP meant for 'bugger' to be substituted with any one of the following not very exaustive list:- 'blighter'; 'begger'; 'swine'; 'thing'; 'beast';
but there is nothing - NOTHING - stopping superior alternatives from being adopted
Apart from the fact that they change a protocol sufficiently to not work fully with a written and defined open standard?
Who needs the source code anyway? A full API exposure and proper documentation of MS only protocols ( any protocol they have extended as well ) should be sufficient.
'I suggest a reformat and a reinstall of a new european commission.'
Been there, done that.
Problem with the commision is it's made up of leaders of the countries and their sycophantic EU loving staff who do not, under any circumstances, listen to what the people want.
very dry sense of humour, very perceptive in the mannerisims of people in general, intelligent questions presented in irreverent ways, thought provoking, cynical, hopeful,
I could go on but just read one of his books and you will find all the above and a great deal more on almost every page. Not only are they funny as hell but they are good reads.
How many different desktop distributions would you use across an enterprise? Oh just the ONE, oh look that means all the apps that you need will just work!
Retraining for the desktop is not that big an issue, a quick class with every body in that building section and hey presto one week later they'll have forgotten about that, sorry whats that other office suite called?
To be granted a patent requires full and specific disclosure of the innovation such that it may be reproduced by others in the same field.
Drugs have to describe what goes into their makeup, hardware has to decribe what makes it special and how to produce it
Surely if this requirement were applied to swpats then most of them would require code samples, screenshots or log printouts to meet the full and specific disclosure that applies to other patent types. This alone would kill most of the waste that seems to be coming out of the sewers?
The Reg points out that IBM/AMD remove the germanium after the silicon straining process whereas INTEL do not. This removal is the new part of SSoI and is being called SSDoI, strained silicon direct on insulator. It would appear that the removal of the germanium has a positive effect upon the leakage and speed of the transistor. IBM announced about a year ago that they were investigating a new technique for strained silicon at a rough guess this was it and was a lot more advanced than was let on at the time.
The first article points out the budget difference $10 mil for ODTG as opposed to $6 bil for MS. It fails to point out that OSTG is where a lot of code is checked into from coders around the world. If the value of the time of these coders were taken into account what would the effective budget be I wonder?
Vacuum tubes is fine for us 'British cousins', we have advanced enough to realise that CRT's are only a minor improvement to thermionic valves, but also sufficient to justify a proper definition
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Ah common folks it was just a few bombs.
Like we've never had any before DOH
I'll bite cos it's personal.
STFU tosser, it's a bomb that's all, we've had them before and we'll have them again.
Now crawl back under your rock and try and spread your spineless FUD elsewhere.
PS until 9/11 the IRA were US sponsered freedom fighters, go figure that one out. Should keep your brain cell occupied.
Get real mate, hitler, IRA (US sponsored) and now AQ, barbaric yes worthy of off-topic? 'Course not Bring 'em on bring 'em on. Are we scared? Piss off are we
As with others, it will be 2 years before you are genuinely useful to any company that you start with.
The real world is very different to academia.
Accept a crap job which can pay the bills for this time and get the experience, employers pay for experience not qualifications.
The qualifications are a foot in the door, nothing else.
You could always try clicking this then
Cell info
To some extent this is true, I have however managed to convert the kids to OO.o rather than MS Office, Ff rather than IE and various other items.
The school is looking at replacing MS Office with OO.o because to use it at school may encourage the parents to "pirate" a copy purely because of the cost.
(UK) You can buy a student licence but that states that only students can use it! Go figure that one huh, the comparison with a crack dealer is not too far from the truth.
Application choice has nothing to do with the OS This is true but could you tell me which of those applications are bundled with the primary Windows install? I know they come as standard on quite a few linux distro's but I was unaware that MS had started shipping them as well ;-)
LMAO, Now it looks like that! Absolutely brill
Don't forget that MS changed the EULA so that you are no longer allowed to benchmark windows and MS products without written permission. The only commercial people who can benchmark are those who will use a framework defined by MS.
Any other options will mean no study and no money.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
This is the case but no examples were given in the GP's case.
MS Anti virus = part of the operating system.
MS Firewall = part of the operating system.
IE = part of the operating system.
There you are, safe for the internet running no programs, this is a loss leader just like drug dealers.
LOL Site is brill! Worth losing O/T karma for :)
:D
Use bugger in the same way as wanker, it can be friendly, ';) you wanker'; aggressive ': you WANKER'; funny ':P You Wanker' etc.
Over this side of the pond the use of context is important; thus your tone of voice and body language adds different meaning to a word that can range from an insult to a salutation.
In this context the GP meant for 'bugger' to be substituted with any one of the following not very exaustive list:-
'blighter'; 'begger'; 'swine'; 'thing'; 'beast';
It has been my pleasure to educate you
but there is nothing - NOTHING - stopping superior alternatives from being adopted
Apart from the fact that they change a protocol sufficiently to not work fully with a written and defined open standard?
Who needs the source code anyway? A full API exposure and proper documentation of MS only protocols ( any protocol they have extended as well ) should be sufficient.
Sorry alcohol;)
John Le Carre and the smiley
size of thier wallets
Any other slepling mistakes are deliberate!
Your thinking Alec Guiness due to John Le Carre an the smiley spy series. Our "representatives" are as twisted as the people in the books.
I have to agree one bomb is not enough, but there is more than one bomb.
I really do fear that your last sentance says it all, the size of hier wallets is the only thing that is important.
'I suggest a reformat and a reinstall of a new european commission.'
Been there, done that.
Problem with the commision is it's made up of leaders of the countries and their sycophantic EU loving staff who do not, under any circumstances, listen to what the people want.
very dry sense of humour,
very perceptive in the mannerisims of people in general,
intelligent questions presented in irreverent ways, thought provoking,
cynical,
hopeful,
I could go on but just read one of his books and you will find all the above and a great deal more on almost every page.
Not only are they funny as hell but they are good reads.
Can't help it have to bite sorry folks.
How many different desktop distributions would you use across an enterprise? Oh just the ONE, oh look that means all the apps that you need will just work!
Retraining for the desktop is not that big an issue, a quick class with every body in that building section and hey presto one week later they'll have forgotten about that, sorry whats that other office suite called?
Retraining costs = done once.
License costs = forEVER
To be granted a patent requires full and specific disclosure of the innovation such that it may be reproduced by others in the same field.
Drugs have to describe what goes into their makeup, hardware has to decribe what makes it special and how to produce it
Surely if this requirement were applied to swpats then most of them would require code samples, screenshots or log printouts to meet the full and specific disclosure that applies to other patent types. This alone would kill most of the waste that seems to be coming out of the sewers?
ACC referenced the disaster on a personal basis, where he lives, where people who work for him live.
He probably cannot reference the rest of the area because as he says communications are still very difficult.
there's not a lot of spam with that
The Reg points out that IBM/AMD remove the germanium after the silicon straining process whereas INTEL do not.
This removal is the new part of SSoI and is being called SSDoI, strained silicon direct on insulator.
It would appear that the removal of the germanium has a positive effect upon the leakage and speed of the transistor.
IBM announced about a year ago that they were investigating a new technique for strained silicon at a rough guess this was it and was a lot more advanced than was let on at the time.
Yes, it's the server that does the processing, the phone is gathering all the information via your calender, appointment book and B/T connections.
Don't blame me for the write up, it got mullered by the editors
The first article points out the budget difference $10 mil for ODTG as opposed to $6 bil for MS.
It fails to point out that OSTG is where a lot of code is checked into from coders around the world.
If the value of the time of these coders were taken into account what would the effective budget be I wonder?
Vacuum tubes is fine for us 'British cousins', we have advanced enough to realise that CRT's are only a minor improvement to thermionic valves, but also sufficient to justify a proper definition
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