Light rail systems are not limited to 10+ minute headways. Modern UK tram (streetcar) systems have services at frequencies of up to 2 minutes on busy lines at peak times. (E.g. Manchester Victoria, where 6 routes each with a 12 minute frequency pass along a common section).
and then crying when they had try to reorder them to get their program to work
That was the tears, later came the laughter when CA's mainframe Librarian product would state: "-END CARD MISSING - MAKE SURE DECK WAS NOT DROPPED" Even though it was reading from disk or tape...
(This was about 20 years ago, As far as I know it still does this to this day)
Also, it buys them some limited but still effectively free publicity (which I don't begrudge them at all, as long they give the kit to a museum when they're finally done with it).
and you go from a place where people eat stodgy well-cooked roast beef
"Stodgy" never describes beef (or any meat). Stodgy means stuff like Yorkshire pudding (savoury) or Bread pudding, or Spotted Dick (Sweet). Stodgy is lots of carbs.
Moreover, it is in FSB's interest to have people believe that they are more capable/powerful then they really are.
You don't state why, but I'm guessing for intimidation/control purposes. Which is certainly a point.
However: It is also in the FSB's interest to have people underestimate their powers so they will be incautious, using systems they believe are secure which the FSB can crack..
It is also in the FSB's interest to have people have a roughly correct idea of their capabilities, because when their real capabilities leak out (as is fairly inevitable), people will neither be horribly shocked at their intrusiveness or surprised as to how weak their capabilities are, so they will avoid unwanted criticism and attention.
You obviously do not understand open source. If a protocol or software gets big enough that a lot of people use it, it will also get a lot of developers looking at it. If a backdoor is written in, eventually someone will find it and report/patch it.
And further to that, there will also typically be a handful of uber-devs who get to accept or reject patches - getting a rogue patch past one of these people, who know the code better than anyone in the entire world, is going to be near impossible.
Besides, it's spoken like that in weird languages like english.
You mean *US* english. In the UK virtually everyone says "(The) 8th of March 2013", not "March 8th". and we use DDMMYY not MMDDYY (and it's really annoying that 98% of software packages can use DDMMYY but about 2% insist on MMDDYY)
Youtube app search sucks on my LG 'smart tv'. The only time I use it is when I'm very drunk, I'll do one search for a band I feel like, then just use the 'related stuff' facility to keep playing vaguely related videos until I've had enough.
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comon - all of the U.K. is still on imperial and no plan to switch to metric
I don't know why you state this so confidently when you are almost completely wrong.
Nearly all units in the UK are officially metric, with the official change having taken place many years ago (pre 1980) apart from a few very specific exceptions like road signs (miles/mph) beer (pints) milk (mostly pints, sometimes litres).
Informally, most people use a mishmash of imperial and metric, often switching between the two for convenience.
Some imperial measures have effectively died out completely (e.g. imperial spirit measures like the gill); others will die soon as older folks die (Fahrenheit use); a few are still used as the prime units and show no signs of dying.
1% of my pressed, carefully stored CD collection has succumbed to 'bit rot' over 20 years; CDs that played perfectly when new at some point developed pin-point holes in the reflective layer (visible when held up to the light) in critical areas such that the discs are no longer even recognized as CDs either by standalone or PC based CD players/drives. I'd rather rely on a rotating set of 3 external hard drives as backup (retired and replaced periodically) than bet on the 'good' 99% of my CDs still being readable in another 10 or 20 years.
Since there's a whole lot of love here for Gnome 2.x, what's the distro that'll be last standing for that GUI?
Probably RHEL or clones CentOS etc.
E.g. RHEL 6 and CentOS V6, with Gnome 2, are supported until November 2020
If you want something a bit more up-to-date with out of the box multimedia support etc. then the LTS version of Mint with Gnome 2 'clone' MATE is supported until April 2017 (and it's probable/possible MATE will work with the following LTS version, due Apr 2014 and supported until 2019).
and you won't be allowed to change the owner of the car,
That's pretty far fetched; unless all the car manufacturers did this at the same time, the sales for those cars with this 'feature' would drop through the floor since they would have no resale value. If all the car manufacturers *did* do it at the same time it would probably be some sort of cartel issue and illegal.
Much more likely is that you would have to officially update the registration with the manufacturer in order to carry on receiving necessary updates after a change of owner, and to do this you would have to pay a 'reasonable admin fee to cover costs' (as they would put it), which could be quite lucrative for the car manufacturers, but not seriously affect resale values if set at the 'right' level. This way they get a cut of all resales for doing virtually nothing.
HP880c - bought in 1999, was left in its box with partially used cartridges in place for 18 months at one point; often unused for weeks or months; always works fine when needed. Using cheap non-HP cartridges as well (GBP2 for black cartridge). Print quality still very good.
my dentist trying to directly freeze my brain stem or something with a needle the size of a drinking straw and then STILL feeling it kinda gets on the nerves.
I always request no anaesthetic for fillings; after 40 years of dental work on my teeth, I've concluded it's much less traumatic than the injections (which have made me bawl like a baby, and on one occasion given me a 2 week long nasal drip), and you don't bite big chunks out of your inside cheeks while waiting for it to wear off.
However, my teeth have been drilled *a lot* and that seems to destroy or desensitise the nerves, so it may be that I can stand no-anaesthetic drilling more than is typical.
Probably they are moving towards a database structure like you have on minis and mainframes.
Some minis, yes. But *the* mainframe OS - MVS, OS/390, now z/OS does not have a database type file system. It has two types of filesystems - a UNIX style hfs (current flavour is ZFS) and the traditional node.qual1.qual2... files. The closest thing it's got to a database structure (in a default setup) is VSAM KSDS clusters, consisting of a data and index file component (plus optional alternate indexes) but these are not generally classified as databases since they do not have an associated database manager, transactions etc. (although they can and do serve as the foundation for various databases).
Mental illness. Pure and simple. Doesn't have to be mental illness as such. Could be a personality disorder, which is just basically saying the he's not ill in any treatable way, rather just 'born bad'.
Same way as you don't classify people born deaf as 'physically ill', someone with a psychopathic type personality (no empathy etc.) isn't usually considered 'mentally ill'.
This is not to say that he should be let off because it's 'not his fault'. It's perfectly possible for many people to control their personality disorder intellectually (e.g. I want to do X, I know it won't make me feel guilty, but I don't because intellectually I know X is a bad thing for society or whatever).
Also, the UK road sign for an ungated railway level crossing is a picture of a steam locomotive.
Of course, you are quite likely to encounter steam locos in many areas, particularly on summer weekends, due to the large number of heritage railways (and mainline steam excursions)... Although the ungated crossings are getting much rarer.
It certainly isn't Canonical, which never contributes anything back to any upstream Linux projects.
*Never* is just plain wrong. The standard criticism is that canonical does not contribute *enough*. E.g. see this: http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/lpc_2008_keynote.html which shows that canonical is a small but not completely insignificant kernel contributor. It also makes at least some upstream contributions to a selection of other projects.
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Aren't there laws against arbitrary denial of service?
For a service you don't pay for? No.
Light rail systems are not limited to 10+ minute headways. Modern UK tram (streetcar) systems have services at frequencies of up to 2 minutes on busy lines at peak times. (E.g. Manchester Victoria, where 6 routes each with a 12 minute frequency pass along a common section).
Also this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rail#Capacity_compared_to_roads
Indicates headways of as little of 2 minutes, and vehicles can have up to 4 cars (which would match the capacity of your 4min/8car heavy rail example.
and then crying when they had try to reorder them to get their program to work
That was the tears, later came the laughter when CA's mainframe Librarian product would state:
"-END CARD MISSING - MAKE SURE DECK WAS NOT DROPPED"
Even though it was reading from disk or tape...
(This was about 20 years ago, As far as I know it still does this to this day)
Also, it buys them some limited but still effectively free publicity (which I don't begrudge them at all, as long they give the kit to a museum when they're finally done with it).
Linux ? yes I would like to - but even with LTS versions I need to re-install the OS every 2-3 years.
5 years support now for Ubuntu and Mint LTS
13 years for RHEL/CentOS etc.
and you go from a place where people eat stodgy well-cooked roast beef
"Stodgy" never describes beef (or any meat). Stodgy means stuff like Yorkshire pudding (savoury) or Bread pudding, or Spotted Dick (Sweet).
Stodgy is lots of carbs.
The majority will adapt quickly (if you are starving, food is a *very* powerful motivation); a minority will go postal.
Moreover, it is in FSB's interest to have people believe that they are more capable/powerful then they really are.
You don't state why, but I'm guessing for intimidation/control purposes. Which is certainly a point.
However:
It is also in the FSB's interest to have people underestimate their powers so they will be incautious, using systems they believe are secure which the FSB can crack..
It is also in the FSB's interest to have people have a roughly correct idea of their capabilities, because when their real capabilities leak out (as is fairly inevitable), people will neither be horribly shocked at their intrusiveness or surprised as to how weak their capabilities are, so they will avoid unwanted criticism and attention.
You obviously do not understand open source. If a protocol or software gets big enough that a lot of people use it, it will also get a lot of developers looking at it. If a backdoor is written in, eventually someone will find it and report/patch it.
And further to that, there will also typically be a handful of uber-devs who get to accept or reject patches - getting a rogue patch past one of these people, who know the code better than anyone in the entire world, is going to be near impossible.
Besides, it's spoken like that in weird languages like english.
You mean *US* english.
In the UK virtually everyone says "(The) 8th of March 2013", not "March 8th".
and we use DDMMYY not MMDDYY (and it's really annoying that 98% of software packages can use DDMMYY but about 2% insist on MMDDYY)
Searching YouTube is a pain,...
Youtube app search sucks on my LG 'smart tv'. The only time I use it is when I'm very drunk, I'll do one search for a band I feel like, then just use the 'related stuff' facility to keep playing vaguely related videos until I've had enough.
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comon - all of the U.K. is still on imperial and no plan to switch to metric
I don't know why you state this so confidently when you are almost completely wrong.
Nearly all units in the UK are officially metric, with the official change having taken place many years ago (pre 1980) apart from a few very specific exceptions like road signs (miles/mph) beer (pints) milk (mostly pints, sometimes litres).
Informally, most people use a mishmash of imperial and metric, often switching between the two for convenience.
Some imperial measures have effectively died out completely (e.g. imperial spirit measures like the gill); others will die soon as older folks die (Fahrenheit use); a few are still used as the prime units and show no signs of dying.
This wikipedia article seems to give a very accurate version of the actual current state of UK units:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingdom
1% of my pressed, carefully stored CD collection has succumbed to 'bit rot' over 20 years; CDs that played perfectly when new at some point developed pin-point holes in the reflective layer (visible when held up to the light) in critical areas such that the discs are no longer even recognized as CDs either by standalone or PC based CD players/drives.
I'd rather rely on a rotating set of 3 external hard drives as backup (retired and replaced periodically) than bet on the 'good' 99% of my CDs still being readable in another 10 or 20 years.
Since his role is insulting people to stir up trouble...
That's more like flamebait; trolling is *a bit* more subtle.
with good old GNOME 2.32 to at least 2017
2020 according to this:
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-fe8a0be91ee3e7dea812e8694491e1dde5b75e6d
Since there's a whole lot of love here for Gnome 2.x, what's the distro that'll be last standing for that GUI?
Probably RHEL or clones CentOS etc.
E.g. RHEL 6 and CentOS V6, with Gnome 2, are supported until November 2020
If you want something a bit more up-to-date with out of the box multimedia support etc. then the LTS version of Mint with Gnome 2 'clone' MATE is supported until April 2017 (and it's probable/possible MATE will work with the following LTS version, due Apr 2014 and supported until 2019).
and you won't be allowed to change the owner of the car,
That's pretty far fetched; unless all the car manufacturers did this at the same time, the sales for those cars with this 'feature' would drop through the floor since they would have no resale value. If all the car manufacturers *did* do it at the same time it would probably be some sort of cartel issue and illegal.
Much more likely is that you would have to officially update the registration with the manufacturer in order to carry on receiving necessary updates after a change of owner, and to do this you would have to pay a 'reasonable admin fee to cover costs' (as they would put it), which could be quite lucrative for the car manufacturers, but not seriously affect resale values if set at the 'right' level. This way they get a cut of all resales for doing virtually nothing.
HP880c - bought in 1999, was left in its box with partially used cartridges in place for 18 months at one point; often unused for weeks or months; always works fine when needed. Using cheap non-HP cartridges as well (GBP2 for black cartridge). Print quality still very good.
my dentist trying to directly freeze my brain stem or something with a needle the size of a drinking straw and then STILL feeling it kinda gets on the nerves.
I always request no anaesthetic for fillings; after 40 years of dental work on my teeth, I've concluded it's much less traumatic than the injections (which have made me bawl like a baby, and on one occasion given me a 2 week long nasal drip), and you don't bite big chunks out of your inside cheeks while waiting for it to wear off.
However, my teeth have been drilled *a lot* and that seems to destroy or desensitise the nerves, so it may be that I can stand no-anaesthetic drilling more than is typical.
Probably they are moving towards a database structure like you have on minis and mainframes.
Some minis, yes. But *the* mainframe OS - MVS, OS/390, now z/OS does not have a database type file system.
It has two types of filesystems - a UNIX style hfs (current flavour is ZFS) and the traditional
node.qual1.qual2...
files.
The closest thing it's got to a database structure (in a default setup) is VSAM KSDS clusters, consisting of a data and index file component (plus optional alternate indexes) but these are not generally classified as databases since they do not have an associated database manager, transactions etc. (although they can and do serve as the foundation for various databases).
You can still buy used VHS players...
You can still buy *new* VHS players. Not much choice, but they do exist.
e.g.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Funai-D50Y-100M-D50y-100m-VHS-Recorder/dp/B004TQINIW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1340273883&sr=8-3
Mental illness. Pure and simple.
Doesn't have to be mental illness as such. Could be a personality disorder, which is just basically saying the he's not ill in any treatable way, rather just 'born bad'.
Same way as you don't classify people born deaf as 'physically ill', someone with a psychopathic type personality (no empathy etc.) isn't usually considered 'mentally ill'.
This is not to say that he should be let off because it's 'not his fault'. It's perfectly possible for many people to control their personality disorder intellectually (e.g. I want to do X, I know it won't make me feel guilty, but I don't because intellectually I know X is a bad thing for society or whatever).
Also, the UK road sign for an ungated railway level crossing is a picture of a steam locomotive.
Of course, you are quite likely to encounter steam locos in many areas, particularly on summer weekends, due to the large number of heritage railways (and mainline steam excursions)...
Although the ungated crossings are getting much rarer.
It certainly isn't Canonical, which never contributes anything back to any upstream Linux projects.
*Never* is just plain wrong. The standard criticism is that canonical does not contribute *enough*.
E.g. see this:
http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/lpc_2008_keynote.html
which shows that canonical is a small but not completely insignificant kernel contributor.
It also makes at least some upstream contributions to a selection of other projects.