May I ask why Americans get so upset about flag buring? If I were to burn a Scottish flag here in Edinburgh the only thing that would happen is that a Japanese tourist would take my picture. If I burned a Union Jack, or especially the blue with with stars, it is possible I could get a round of applause from the locals.
I can see why you might think this, but parts of the UK are *very* tribal - with deep seated rifts that go back many hundreds of years. Parts of Scotland are probably even more sectarian than Northern Ireland is.
He did say "designs and deploys large storage environments for a living" - certainly in normal (i.e. not Google or Facebook) data center environments servers will have either FC connections to a SAN if they are doing anything serious or iSCSI for stuff that needs to be on the SAN but doesn't need FC performance. YMMV.
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So did I get that completely wrong then? Is your currently work superceding the original content - which looked very much like it would have been generated by some consultancy who would then run off to the hills cash in hand.
I can see how you might think that. However, while the UK NHS can be truly excellent in the actual care provided (not always, I admit) the organisation is now plagued by management and IT consultancies spending billions and achieving very little complicit with the muppets who run this country.
OK I apologise, I was being unkind to muppets there. I don't think that there has been any evidence that the furry little buggers were morally and financially corrupt, unlike the leaders of a certain county...
For a personal project recently I started using Silverlight for exactly the reasons you mention - I also wanted to support Flash as well so I did some work to check that the overall approach worked (I want to support Java and Canvas as well eventually).
To my surprise I found that I actually rather like ActionScript 3 and the Flex/Flash libraries - so much so that I have now made the primary version in Flex as this is what people actually have and I prefer the approach to Graphics programming in Flex to Silverlight.
I tend to agree with this view, I have brother who is a Chartered Engineer (UK version of a PE) and a wife who is a lawyer and I never describe myself as a "professional" - I'm a guy with a CS degree who designs and implements computer systems.
Of course, the vast majority of software does not need a "professional" to be involved in the same way that a lot of construction (me building a wall in my garden) doesn't need an engineer or every commercial transaction requires a laywer (I don't ask my wife to review the contract when I book a cinema ticket online).
There are some types of domains (anything safety critical/related and perhaps some classes of financial systems) that should have to be signed off by a real software professional who takes professional responsibility for them. The difference between real professionals and the rest of us is that if they screw up badly enough they can get struck off and then they can't work in that field anymore.
Well, last week we climbed a mountain in north west Scotland made from billion year old Torridonian sandstone - the rock has pebbles embedded (I picked up a few) that had been washed down rivers from the long gone Himalaya sized range of mountains that were eroded to create the material that created the sandstone.
So this morning over breakfast I looked at a little rounded pebble that was shaped a billion years ago - now that is pretty old!
"I say thank you America for removing the crazy Austrian".
Wasn't it the Soviets who captured Berlin and did the bulk of the fighting against the Nazis? Also, the UK did a pretty decent job of defeating the invasion attempts there.
What the Allied invasion of continential Europe probably did prevent was complete Soviet rather than Nazi domination of the continent (and possibly of the UK as well).
The distribution of population in the UK isn't that even - there are some pretty big chunks of the UK (e.g. Scottish Highlands) where there are very few people.
The Central Belt of Scotland seems pretty crowded to me!
Check the weather though - Ben Nevis may only be 1300m high but the winter conditions on the Ben can be grim. Don't go up the Ben without foul weather gear or you may well end up dead - at any time of the year.
Note that it is science FICTION - the Zones of Thought are a device to explain why societies at different levels of technological advancement can exist in the same galaxy. It is NOT a scientific theory.
Personally, I think the Zones of Thought are one of the coolest ideas in all of SF.
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May I ask why Americans get so upset about flag buring? If I were to burn a Scottish flag here in Edinburgh the only thing that would happen is that a Japanese tourist would take my picture. If I burned a Union Jack, or especially the blue with with stars, it is possible I could get a round of applause from the locals.
I can see why you might think this, but parts of the UK are *very* tribal - with deep seated rifts that go back many hundreds of years. Parts of Scotland are probably even more sectarian than Northern Ireland is.
The Tsar Bomb design was apparently rated at 100MT - the version exploded (yielding 56MT) didn't used a lead, rather than depleted uranium, tamper.
Indeed, since Chip-n-Pin became common the only think I use cash for is the occasional taxi journey.
He did say "designs and deploys large storage environments for a living" - certainly in normal (i.e. not Google or Facebook) data center environments servers will have either FC connections to a SAN if they are doing anything serious or iSCSI for stuff that needs to be on the SAN but doesn't need FC performance. YMMV.
So did I get that completely wrong then? Is your currently work superceding the original content - which looked very much like it would have been generated by some consultancy who would then run off to the hills cash in hand.
Keep up the good work!
I would have laughed at that if it wasn't so typical of large UK government projects.
You'll love this then: http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/systemsandservices/data/nhsdmds
I wonder how long it took, probably at 2000 pounds a day, for this to be done?
I can see how you might think that. However, while the UK NHS can be truly excellent in the actual care provided (not always, I admit) the organisation is now plagued by management and IT consultancies spending billions and achieving very little complicit with the muppets who run this country.
OK I apologise, I was being unkind to muppets there. I don't think that there has been any evidence that the furry little buggers were morally and financially corrupt, unlike the leaders of a certain county...
I know it is a TV license, but I would happily pay the license fee just for Radio 4 (OK apart from Moneybox).
I've only been developing in ActionScript 3 for a few months - but I think it is a lot closer to Java than JavaScript is.
To my surprise I found that I actually rather like ActionScript 3 and the Flex/Flash libraries - so much so that I have now made the primary version in Flex as this is what people actually have and I prefer the approach to Graphics programming in Flex to Silverlight.
YMMV
Come to Scotland and say that!
Of course, the vast majority of software does not need a "professional" to be involved in the same way that a lot of construction (me building a wall in my garden) doesn't need an engineer or every commercial transaction requires a laywer (I don't ask my wife to review the contract when I book a cinema ticket online).
There are some types of domains (anything safety critical/related and perhaps some classes of financial systems) that should have to be signed off by a real software professional who takes professional responsibility for them. The difference between real professionals and the rest of us is that if they screw up badly enough they can get struck off and then they can't work in that field anymore.
Also, Office applications have been WebDAV clients for years - they will save stuff to a remote server fairly happily.
I'm hardly a geologist - merely a humble geek who has acquired a recent fascination for all things geological.
So this morning over breakfast I looked at a little rounded pebble that was shaped a billion years ago - now that is pretty old!
Shame on any CS graduate who asserts that Quicksort is *always* best.
Wasn't it the Soviets who captured Berlin and did the bulk of the fighting against the Nazis? Also, the UK did a pretty decent job of defeating the invasion attempts there.
What the Allied invasion of continential Europe probably did prevent was complete Soviet rather than Nazi domination of the continent (and possibly of the UK as well).
Excellent - mod the parent up!
The distribution of population in the UK isn't that even - there are some pretty big chunks of the UK (e.g. Scottish Highlands) where there are very few people. The Central Belt of Scotland seems pretty crowded to me!
Check the weather though - Ben Nevis may only be 1300m high but the winter conditions on the Ben can be grim. Don't go up the Ben without foul weather gear or you may well end up dead - at any time of the year.
Personally, I think the Zones of Thought are one of the coolest ideas in all of SF.
Actually there was a pretty nasty one about 7000 years ago caused by a underwater landslide off of Norway. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2001/glasgow_2001/1531049.stm
Shouldn't there be a SOAP webservice in there too - otherwise how will this scale to tens of users?